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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Trudeau to use emergency powers across Canada
By ROB GILLIES and TED SHAFFREY OTTAWA, Ontario©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
31 Comments
Bob Fosse
The restrictions have been lifting gradually already. Truckers had NOTHING to do with it. Doing a rain dance while it is raining and then saying you caused it is ridiculous.
FizzBit
Also ridiculous, making a point irrelevant of the protestors demands.
You can always count on the MSM to twist the facts. 300+ million in the US vs 38+ million in Canada, and the “COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States” and that’s with “stricter” restrictions. Houston, we have a problem.
Bob Fosse
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I did that by reading the paragraph directly after the one bb quoted. The one where the very same Doug Ford stated that the truckers had nothing to do with this decision.
MarkX
Hello Fizzbit, having trouble reading, the "death rate", meaning the number of deaths per capita, so it doesn't matter the population, the stricter rules in Canada have prevented more deaths, not like in the good old USA.
starpunk
Enough of this stupid crap! Do these CoVidiots really want to get sick and die? Do they even care about who they will encounter on their driving jobs? They've been disrupting traffic, other peoples' business, making noise and acting like brats. They've been desecrating Ottawa and its artworks and monuments. They've not been acting peacefully, they've been acting like a bunch of loquacious, obnoxious, immature loudmouths with 6th grade mentalities. They're being a total nuisance and a bunch of bellicose imbeciles and just being a pain in the ass to most Canadians.
If towing these trucks away will restore order and stop this nonsense, then do so! Nobody has the right to endanger others, nobody has the right to be a Typhoid Mary. This has gone on too long and these yo-yos are just causing problems. Note that some of them are carrying Trump and Nazi flags which indicates the evils behind some of these demonstrations. Of course the antichrist Trump applauds and cheers these cretins, he's never up to any good - ever.
It's time to clear the streets and take out the trash. Stop the madness. Enough of this stupid crap!
Sanjinosebleed
Good on you truckers ! Keep it peaceful and don't let them marginalize you by the calling you a "minority"
People all over the world have had enough of the Covid MADNESS!
Time for a return to sanity now we know that Omicron is no worse than the Flu!
Haaa Nemui
@MarkX
He’s just getting his daily dig at the MSM.
BurakuminDes
Good police work in finding these weapons and arresting those who took them to the protest. Truly scary to think what may have happened.
Well done to the vast majority of Canadians in getting vaxxed and doing the best they can to protect their communities. For me, the last paragraph says it all:
Ah_so
I respect they're choice to not get vaccinated. And they should respect the law. If they don't want a vaccination, don't expect to get entry into other countries.
But I guess when you are afraid of a safe vaccine and have no fear about a virus that has killed 6 million, I guess you wouldn't get this logic.
Time to clear the streets and seize the trucks.
proxy
It doesn't matter if it is called the "fluffy bunny rabbit" act, Canada is now under martial law, led by Justin Trudeau. Good luck Canada.
Busby
So much for the "peaceful freedom fighters" narrative....these far-rightists are as violent and dangerous as the rest....
So the result of this week of blocked streets and closed factories was nothing....except a lot of angry Canadians and Americans at the selfish actions of a few deluded far rightists...
Well stated...
So the only "winners" of this event were the far-right media, who treated these protests as some "cause celebre"...which is not surprising given they obsessed over Kyle Rittenhouse who killed two people and seriously wounded another...
bass4funk
If they’re all vaccinated then there’s nothing to worry about.
They care but they don’t want the government controlling their lives anymore, none of us do.
They've not been acting peacefully, no one was shot or killed or beaten up or terrorized.
All they need to do is park their trucks legally and then not move them or refuse to go to work, if they get fired, good luck finding New drivers, it would take them months to get them up to speed. There’s always a way to continue the fight.
Carrying Trump flag doesn’t make a person evil, carrying a Biden doesn’t make you peaceful, however carrying a Nazi flag is disturbing.
Trump is not an anti-Christ, it’s not even about Trump, but whether you are Trump, American or Canadian or anyone else on the planet you have the right to cheer on the fight for these truckers wanting to push their government to end the Draconian mandates. Freedom is a valuable and priceless thing.
Clear the streets, follow the law, but don’t give up the fight!
PTownsend
"a certain kind of person", the person who said this must be well aware of how wack some individuals in the Qanon right have gone ,and must be concerned how much further wack they might be willing to go. What will the next far right cause be? What 'freedom will they go batshite for next? It's wrorrying but not surprising that among these 'my-rights trump yours' sorts are gun nuts, too.
Authorities seized 13 long guns, handguns, sets of body armor, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and high-capacity magazines.
Express sister
You're opposed to vaccinations, though.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
Canadians are notorious for making loads of petty rules and then getting angry when others won't go along with them. Worked with more than a few of them in Japan who were notorious pains in the derriere in this regard, even among Japanese people. I'ts not surprising their country is now in a giant mess and turning on itself.
Concerned Citizen
The more the elites try to plant the foot on the necks of the common man the angrier the common man will get. This is just the beginning.
ulysses
It definitely is, a few thousand bigots have taken a million residents hostage.
The city is unsafe for minorities and anyone not willing to show support to the bigots!!!
An emergency is required to drive away these fascists!!!
Antiquesaving
It is interesting how all the money for the protest came from outside Canada, and how these truckers aren't protesting that fact they are still required to be vaccinated by the USA government to enter.
So if the mandate is lifted the only truckers that would not be required to be vaccinated entering and leaving Canada would be USA citizens that are truckers.
Canadian truckers are required under USA law to be vaccinated as of January 22 2022.
So these fools are being tricked, Canadian truckers will still require the vaccine and USA truckers will not if Canada changes position
Happy Day
Where has he been for the last two weeks? If he believes strongly what he is doing is best for all Canadians, he would face them.
But he is a tyrant that is riding on Daddy's coattails and is easily manipulated and is scared of his own shadow.
Some Canadian police have already announced publicly they are tiring of enforcing mandates that are purely political.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
As usual, Jordan Peterson nails it (and nails the illiberal abuses of the Trudeau junta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRSyLI15ZCw
prionking
Jackboot Justin is going to have trouble removing all those trucks when the tow-truck drivers continue refusing to comply. The world's eyes are on Canada - governments hoping he doesn't fold, as it'll make their mandates harder to maintain, while protestors around the world are gaining courage as they see the Canadian truckers stand up to the cowardly Ken doll and back him into a corner.
starpunk
Canada has had a PM who didn't lie about or deny the pandemic. Trudeau didn't incite violence against the provincial governments. He didn't incite race hate crimes either. There are Black Canadians (mostly in the eastern provinces), Chinese Canadians, Canadians of Arabic and India subcontinent descent, IOW a mixed bag just like the US. Trudeau didn't start racial strife, he didn't lip off with juvenile 'kung flu' jokes, he didn't pop off the sassy chops with lies and BS. He took the coronavirus seriously and the death rate has been lowered thanks to him and the Canadian public taking responsibility. Just like his grandfather did with that FLQ crisis in the 70s.
Notice that some of these truckers are from the US, carrying US flags, Trump flags, Nazi flags. Dumpster Don is trying to spread his social and political disease into the Great White North and weapons have been found on this scum. What does that tell ya? They are terrorists inspired by the antichrist traitor.
Sven Asai
Of course that covered communist saves his power with use of emergency rulings. If he wouldn’t be entangled by Alaska in the West he would already have united with the Russians and formed a northern front line. Sounds wicked and hypothetical? Yes, but you should consider to pray for that not happening too.
WilliB
Emergency powers, wow. Wasnt that the former War Act?
Once Joe Biden wakes up, someone should ask him: Does he support Trudea or the people of Canada?
WilliB
Sven Asai
No, rather with mainland China, where most of his authoritarian inspirations seem to come from. Russia is pretty free.
Antiquesaving
This is the funniest stuff, a "tyrant" while the people of Ottawa and other cities are saying he is weak for not ending this earlier,
So if we are to believe the truckers and their supporters, he is a week tyrant that hasn't done anything to stop them,.
Oh and no he isn't his father PET would have ended this in 24 hours by calling in the military just like he did during the FLQ situation.
WilliB
Antiquesaving
Which "people" would that be? Did you see real livestreams from the event, rather than the selected snippets in the MSM? This is about the most peaceful protest you have ever seen anywhere. And what they want is simply go back to the live before overreaching restrictions, and not a revolution.
Contrary to that, take closer look at those "counterpotests" that the MSM likes to cover, and count the red Communist flags. Quite amazing.