Canadian Truckers Convoy 2022 - The Leaf calls you a Nazi as he gasses you

Some further reporting as we await the hammer drop:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau consulting premiers on triggering Emergencies Act to end blockades
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is consulting Canada’s premiers on triggering the Emergencies Act as the federal government tries to chart a course to bring blockades jamming border crossings and the capital city under control.

The Emergencies Act gives the federal government sweeping powers when it is invoked. But before it can be triggered, the government is required to consult with provinces and territories.

Two sources with direct knowledge of the talks said Mr. Trudeau consulted with his caucus early Monday morning, before meeting with premiers.

The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources because they were not permitted to disclose the internal deliberations.

For more than two weeks Ottawa has been blockaded by anti-government protesters who want all pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates lifted. Since then copy-cat protests have blockaded border crossings across Canada.

Mr. Trudeau called a late Sunday night cabinet meeting to discuss what more the federal government can do to restore order where blockades continue in Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia.

Mr. Trudeau is talking to the premiers and territorial leaders virtually to update them on the blockades and what further action will be taken to end them, sources said.

Ahead of the meeting with the Prime Minister, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he didn’t know the details of the discussion would be. But he said he would support anything proposed by the federal government that would bring an end to the blockades.

“I’ll support the federal government and any proposals they have to bring law and order back to our province, to make sure we stabilize our businesses and trade around the world as the world is watching us right now,” he said.

Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge is open. Ottawa’s protests are in their third week. Where else are truck convoys now?

Leah West, an assistant professor of international affairs at Carleton University and national security expert, said on Twitter that for the Emergencies Act to be invoked, the federal government must consult with the provinces and cabinet must believe the protests “rise to the level of a national emergency.”


Prof. West said for the purpose of this act, a national emergency is “an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.”

She wrote that she has “serious doubts” that this definition has been met. “Can it truly be said the security of Canada is threatened by largely non-violent protests? Certainly, our sovereignty and territorial integrity are not at risk.”

The Ontario Provincial Police, RCMP and Windsor police were able to clear protesters and their trucks on Sunday from the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest trade link between the U.S. and Canada.

The OPP and RCMP have also set up a co-ordinated task force to help embattled Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly to bring order to the city, where protesters have control of the downtown core in front of the Parliament buildings.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson offered to negotiate with the some of the leaders of the groups of protestors as long as they first move out of residential areas. However the status of the deal is unclear as one organizer, Tamara Lich, first agreed to move the trucks blockading downtown streets, then appeared to rule it out on Twitter, before again saying some of the trucks would be relocated.

On Friday, Mr. Ford invoked a provincial state of emergency, giving police new powers to try and bring an end to the protests. The province enacted emergency measures that allow for $100,000 fines, yearlong jail terms and the seizing of commercial vehicle licenses.

With those new powers, the Premier on Monday said “the police now have every single tool they need.”

He noted that the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ont. to Detroit, was cleared over the weekend and protests in Toronto were prevented from leading to the massive disruptions felt in Ottawa.

“They have every resource available to them,” Mr. Ford said about the police.

He said Ottawa is a “more complex situation involving municipal, provincial and federal law enforcement,” but that governments are “focused on ending the illegal occupation.”

Ottawa city residents have become so frustrated with the lack of police action that they took to the streets on Sunday to block roads to prevent protestors in trucks from going to Parliament Hill.

A poll by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute shows after more than two weeks of unrest, Canadians are now more likely to oppose protesters’ demands.

Over all, more than two in five Canadians say the protests have made them more inclined to support ongoing restrictions related to masking indoors (44 per cent) and vaccination requirements to cross the Canada-U.S. border (44 per cent).

As the country rolls into another week of uncertainty, nearly three-quarters of Canadians (72 per cent) say the time has come for protesters to “go home, they have made their point,” according to the survey.

Nearly 70 per cent of those polled said they either think local police need to step in and send people home (45 per cent) or that the military should be summoned (23 per cent). One quarter (26 per cent) say it’s up to politicians to negotiate a dénouement, the survey said.

Angus Reid Institute said those same politicians, including the Prime Minister and the leader of Canada’s official opposition, are roundly criticized for harming, not helping events. Two-thirds (65 per cent) say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments and actions have worsened the situation, while two in five (42 per cent) say the same of Candice Bergen, interim Leader of the Official Opposition.

The Ottawa police and Ontario Provincial Police also garner considerable criticism, with more Canadians – and Ontarians – saying they have worsened rather than helped to resolve the situation.

The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey from Feb. 11- 13, 2022, among a representative randomized sample of 1,622 Canadian adults who are members of Angus Reid Forum. For comparison purposes only, a probability sample of this size would carry a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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This article is interesting because it largely confirms that moderates aren't going to be sucking down the Kool-Aid as easy as the local bugmen (see the comment section for insanity in action), some can recognize there is no point for it and that its invocation calls into question the competency and honesty of this government. It's going to be very interesting seeing how the premiers and opposition parties respond later today, this is the sort of thing that flips politics on its head.

Just_Somebody said:
So was it officially announced? I figured I'd get an Emergency Alert that the Emergencies Act was enacted across Canada and whatever.

Or was this shit all bluster? So far I haven't heard a proper announcement that civil rights are suspended.

Edit: And no, I'm not checking CBC, they're the ones that pushed this bullshit.
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Currently Trudeau is consulting with the premiers which is the last required step before invocation. There's a chance that consultation forces him to scrap the idea (if enough speak out against it to make it politically unappealing), but right now it's looking like the act will be invoked sometime this afternoon/evening.
 
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You have to laugh at "I'm only here for the snacks" though
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Why do some think this couldn't be pulled off in America? I'm thinking of certain bridges and roads in places like Memphis that could easily be blocked by very few trucks. Just think if access to the world's busiest airport was blocked, even for a day?

The government can't stop this from happening, since there's no way to know which truckers are going to protest and which aren't. That's why you're seeing the media change their tune about mandates, they see which way the wind is blowing and they absolutely do not want American truckers to copy Canada.

The only real issue I see with Americans trying this is dealing with unhinged counter protestors. People here could get really violent compared to the counter protestors in Canada.
 
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America's Hat said:
He's having a meeting with the premiers, he already had the caucus meeting yesterday.
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Two premiers ended the mandates already. A third has it around the corner and has basically said "Peaceful protest is legal, these people have a right to be here. Just fucking talk to them".

Ford, for all of his bluster, knows that the protests are peaceful and the Ambassador Bridge was cleared. He undercut Trudeau today for a goddamn reason and signaled an end to some restrictions (he's done it before so he's probably being a fat fuck snake, but you don't undercut the feds unless you want to make a point)

Legault, even if he's probably the premier with the most to lose, isn't going to look good if he has FLQ 2.0 under his watch.

I don't know what the Maritimes and BC are doing right now. I know Nova Scotia and New Brunswick did put some "protesting on highways are super illegal" emergency mandates, but otherwise I don't know if they're removing restrictions.

PEI I think also removed some restrictions. No fucking clue about Newfoundland but I think they're easing up too.

None of them are going to say "YEAH SURE MARTIAL LAW SOUNDS AMAZING". I know Trudeau can do it anyway, but the brazen balls on declaring martial law over a peaceful fucking protest? Absolutely embarrassing when we're supposed to be going to war with Russia soon.
 
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T0oCoolFool said:
Why do some think this couldn't be pulled off in America? I'm thinking of certain bridges and roads in places like Memphis that could easily be blocked by very few trucks. Just think if access to the world's busiest airport was blocked, even for a day?

The government can't stop this from happening, since there's no way to know which truckers are going to protest and which aren't. That's why you're seeing the media change their tune about mandates, they see which way the wind is blowing and they absolutely do not want American truckers to copy Canada.

The only real issue I see with Americans trying this is dealing with unhinged counter protestors. People here could get really violent compared to the counter protestors in Canada.
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There theoretically is in that they could pull over any driver not driving a company truck. Since it isn't company drivers going to the protests, it's owner operators.
 
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Just_Somebody said:
Two premiers ended the mandates already. A third has it around the corner and has basically said "Peaceful protest is legal, these people have a right to be here. Just fucking talk to them".

Ford, for all of his bluster, knows that the protests are peaceful and the Ambassador Bridge was cleared. He undercut Trudeau today for a goddamn reason and signaled an end to some restrictions (he's done it before so he's probably being a fat fuck snake, but you don't undercut the feds unless you want to make a point)
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Ford was also out snowmobiling during the past weekend (5th and 6th), he knows its a nothing burger but he gets hurt hard by the economic damage of the protest. It's bad because for his province do suffer major economic damages but those damages are already caused by the lockdown. Someone said that Ford supports the Emergencies Act, but we've also had insiders leak the mask end date to be March 31st, yet they did not announce it today. The late night call from Trudeau yesterday evening may have made Ford reconsider this finite date.
 
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So there solution is to make sure the protestors have nothing to lose? That's not really sound strategy.

From Sun Tzu The Art of War:
But Kao Huan, instead of trying to escape, actually made a shift to block all the remaining outlets himself by driving into them a number of oxen and donkeys roped together. As soon as his officers and men saw that there was nothing for it but to conquer or die, their spirits rose to an extraordinary pitch of exaltation, and they charged with such desperate ferocity that the opposing ranks broke and crumbled under their onslaught.
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Just_Somebody said:
Or was this shit all bluster? So far I haven't heard a proper announcement that civil rights are suspended.
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Double reply with this too to elaborate on a couple things and avoid excessive dooming. Once invoked the act doesn't immediately suspend civil rights, it provides the ability to do so as liberally or conservatively as desired via emergency legislation.

What's likely to happen is freedom of movement within the area of the protests will be suspended and telecommunications clamped down on. People will be told to leave immediately, and if not they will be dealt with violently. Emergency alerts to this effect will go out for these areas and people told to avoid them until further notice.

There won't be any legislated Canada-wide suspension of rights given even the most loyal Liberal bugman cannot justify it, but I suspect the Libs will apply this act to all border crossings and major city centers for the foreseeable future.
 
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Just_Somebody said:
I don't know what the Maritimes and BC are doing right now. I know Nova Scotia and New Brunswick did put some "protesting on highways are super illegal" emergency mandates, but otherwise I don't know if they're removing restrictions.
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Right now New Brunswick is at level 2. We're set to go to level 1 on the 18th. We've still got vax pass bullshit, limits on "gatherings" with no sign of them ending any time soon. I don't believe that Higgs won't just bring them back when the next vARiaNt comes out.
 

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