Trucker protest at U.S. border crossing reportedly several kilometres long

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Incorrect.
The ministers office writes the proposals (laws) and it is then sent to the affected ministers that vet the proposals which then is sent to parliament. Once it is passed, by house and senate and pencil whipped by GG, it then becomes law for all government departments to abide by.
Really MPs who were previously florists or hockey coaches write our laws and not contracted lawyers?
 
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I guess this indigenous elder is part of those Racist Trudeau was talking about.. 😮

Thank dawd she survived.. and minor injuries

Well that is what you get when you put yourself in front of horses; the chances of getting stomped on are high.

I mean come the fuck on, she was in a walker (likely sitting which is why you can't really see it in front of her in any of the video clips I've seen).

Ugh...

Glad she didn't get hurt badly but she did this to herself.

I have as much sympathy for her as you lot had for the "rioters" who fucked with police last year. Which is to say... none.
 

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Well that is what you get when you put yourself in front of horses; the chances of getting stomped on are high.

I mean come the fuck on, she was in a walker (likely sitting which is why you can't really see it in front of her in any of the video clips I've seen).

Ugh...

Glad she didn't get hurt badly but she did this to herself.

I have as much sympathy for her as you lot had for the "rioters" who fucked with police last year. Which is to say... none.
But. . . but. . . she was TRAMPLED TO DEATH!

"My Little Pony: Friendship Really Hurts"
 

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Oh so you don’t know??
As I said, and will say it again, No. Do you?
So before making judgment, find out what went on and why. One side is this no name persons video,. The other side of the story is unknown. You have no idea why there are 6 police officers are at the door.
So, as I said, there are 2 sides to every story.
 

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Really MPs who were previously florists or hockey coaches write our laws and not contracted lawyers?
Are you really that uniformed? Only elected persons in this country can make laws. In the end, the law, its intent will be approved and passed by the elected people.
Oh and yes, some were florist, some hockey coaches, some doctors, some business owners, some labourers, even some lawyers.
 

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Are you really that uniformed? Only elected persons in this country can make laws. In the end, the law, its intent will be approved and passed by the elected people.
He's gonna get all anal on "write," insisting that the person who drafts the law has full control over what it says.

He does that now and then. Best to just let it go, he generally gets over it.
 
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Truck convoy a 'contributing factor' in fatal 401 crash near Chatham: OPP
Author of the article:Free Press staff
Publishing date:Feb 20, 2022 • 14 hours ago • 1 minute read • 26 Comments
Eastbound 401 traffic was detoured at Queen's Line in Tilbury as OPP investigated a two-vehicle crash Jan. 27.
Eastbound 401 traffic was detoured at Queen's Line in Tilbury as OPP investigated a two-vehicle crash Jan. 27.
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Provincial police have identified the man killed in a Highway 401 crash last month in Chatham-Kent, a two-vehicle collision investigators say was “indirectly involved” with an anti-restriction convoy in the area.

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Chatham-Kent OPP responded to a crash in the eastbound lanes of the highway, just west of Bloomfield Road, shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 27.

OPP on Sunday announced Robert Anthony Charron, 43, of Chatham was killed in the crash.

“An ongoing truck convoy protest was indirectly involved and was a contributing factor to this fatal collision,” Chatham-Kent OPP said in a statement.

That day, a convoy of trucks was passing through Southwestern Ontario along the 401 en route to Ottawa to participate in a protest opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.

The initial weekend demonstration in Ottawa evolved into a more than three-week occupation that was busted in a coordinated police operation over the weekend. Officers made 191 arrests, laid 389 charges and towed 79 vehicles from downtown Ottawa.

The Ottawa demonstration spawned other anti-government and anti-restriction protests across Canada, including a days-long blockade at Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge and a shutdown of the westbound Highway 402 near Watford. Both demonstrations have since been cleared.

Anyone with information about the Jan. 27 crash is asked to call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or the Chatham-Kent detachment at (519) 352-1122. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Chatham-Kent Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at
 

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CCLA CALLS FOR REVOCATION OF DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY​

By Abby DeshmanFebruary 21, 2022

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is calling on the federal government to revoke the declaration of emergency. If the government fails to do so, a vote is scheduled to take place on Monday evening at 8 PM, and CCLA calls on all parties to vote against the motion, or at a minimum permit individual legislators to vote according to their own personal conscience.

In a letter written to the government and released today, the CCLA pointed out the blockade in Ottawa has been cleared, while various border crossings were opened prior to – and without reliance on – the invocation of federal emergency powers.

“The government’s own proclamation of emergency was clear: they claimed that they needed to invoke the extraordinary Emergencies Act to deal with the blockades. Those blockades are now dismantled. The sweeping national emergency powers they enacted should be dismantled as well,” said Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association......More

 
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Found it interesting that there are businesses joining in with the law suit against those who were part of and organized the convoy, because of loss of business.

But, it was a peaceful, pro freedom, everyone was happy there were no issues event! :rolleyes:
 
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Found it interesting that there are businesses joining in with the law suit against those who were part of and organized the convoy, because of loss of business.

But, it was a peaceful, pro freedom, everyone was happy there were no issues event! :rolleyes:
I find it interesting that there is no mention of the many businesses that stayed open and reaped record sales and profits .
 
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Found it interesting that there are businesses joining in with the law suit against those who were part of and organized the convoy, because of loss of business.

But, it was a peaceful, pro freedom, everyone was happy there were no issues event! :rolleyes:
Yes, and there are processes in place for these businesses to address this. They are able to enter into a law suit with respect to this matter and the grievances associated with this.

In 1988, as Parliament was studying the bill that would become the Emergencies Act, MPs spent a great deal of time defining the term “national emergency.” In the end, Parliament set forth exacting criteria that would, it was hoped, prevent the invocation of the legislation in all but the gravest of situations. The reasons advanced this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government meet none of those benchmarks.

Despite the Liberal government’s efforts to paint the current events with the most dramatic colours, it has become patently clear that we are not faced with a “nati emergency,” as defined by the Emergencies Act.

Do the protests in Ottawa endanger the lives or safety of Canadians? No. It is true that the demonstrations are causing a host of problems for residents and workers in the nation’s capital, but inconvenience, even serious inconvenience, is not equivalent to lives being threatened.

Is the situation beyond Ontario’s capacity to deal with? No. Federal, provincial and local police officers were able to clear the Ambassador Bridge blockade in Windsor, Ont., before the act was invoked.

Is the ability of the federal government to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Canada threatened? Not in the least.

Finally, as several experts and commentators have pointed out, Ottawa’s municipal bylaws and the Criminal Code contain all the tools necessary to deal with this kind of event.


The wide-ranging authority granted to financial institutions to freeze the accounts of any person engaged, “directly or indirectly,” in illegal activities is cause for concern. So is the prohibition of any public assembly “that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.” Those measures are not “targeted,” as claimed by Ottawa, but excessively broad.

More importantly, the recourse to the Emergencies Act in a situation that does not meet the level of seriousness envisaged by its drafters may create a dangerous precedent.

Why not invoke the act when Indigenous groups and their supporters block crucial railways? Or when students cause chaos for weeks on end, as was the case in Quebec 10 years ago?

Back in 1988, as the debate in Parliament was coming to an end, Liberal MP Russell MacLellan expressed his misgivings, saying, “I am concerned that Bill C-77, the emergencies legislation, can be implemented far too often. While the number of cases in which it can be implemented have been reduced even further as a result of amendments, my party still believes that there are occasions when this legislation can be used needlessly.”

History is full of irony. No doubt MacLellan did not suspect that the first government to fall into this trap would be a Liberal government, led by a prime minister named Trudeau.

“Emergency powers cannot, and must not, be normalized.”
 

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Yes, and there are processes in place for these businesses to address this. They are able to enter into a law suit with respect to this matter and the grievances associated with this.

In 1988, as Parliament was studying the bill that would become the Emergencies Act, MPs spent a great deal of time defining the term “national emergency.” In the end, Parliament set forth exacting criteria that would, it was hoped, prevent the invocation of the legislation in all but the gravest of situations. The reasons advanced this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government meet none of those benchmarks.

Despite the Liberal government’s efforts to paint the current events with the most dramatic colours, it has become patently clear that we are not faced with a “nati emergency,” as defined by the Emergencies Act.

Do the protests in Ottawa endanger the lives or safety of Canadians? No. It is true that the demonstrations are causing a host of problems for residents and workers in the nation’s capital, but inconvenience, even serious inconvenience, is not equivalent to lives being threatened.

Is the situation beyond Ontario’s capacity to deal with? No. Federal, provincial and local police officers were able to clear the Ambassador Bridge blockade in Windsor, Ont., before the act was invoked.

Is the ability of the federal government to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Canada threatened? Not in the least.

Finally, as several experts and commentators have pointed out, Ottawa’s municipal bylaws and the Criminal Code contain all the tools necessary to deal with this kind of event.


The wide-ranging authority granted to financial institutions to freeze the accounts of any person engaged, “directly or indirectly,” in illegal activities is cause for concern. So is the prohibition of any public assembly “that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.” Those measures are not “targeted,” as claimed by Ottawa, but excessively broad.

More importantly, the recourse to the Emergencies Act in a situation that does not meet the level of seriousness envisaged by its drafters may create a dangerous precedent.

Why not invoke the act when Indigenous groups and their supporters block crucial railways? Or when students cause chaos for weeks on end, as was the case in Quebec 10 years ago?

Back in 1988, as the debate in Parliament was coming to an end, Liberal MP Russell MacLellan expressed his misgivings, saying, “I am concerned that Bill C-77, the emergencies legislation, can be implemented far too often. While the number of cases in which it can be implemented have been reduced even further as a result of amendments, my party still believes that there are occasions when this legislation can be used needlessly.”

History is full of irony. No doubt MacLellan did not suspect that the first government to fall into this trap would be a Liberal government, led by a prime minister named Trudeau.

“Emergency powers cannot, and must not, be normalized.”
True , but we have just pretty much given our health authorities powers to put us in a state of medical emergency for over two years . This no longer feels much different . The Canadian population have become conditioned
 

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True , but we have just pretty much given our health authorities powers to put us in a state of medical emergency for over two years . This no longer feels much different . The Canadian population have become conditioned
That was the whole point of the covid restriction. Condition the populace to Draconian rights abuses , then start taking rights away.
If Pierre was still alive he would be demanding DNA tests now.