The peaceful protest in Ottawa has been violently evicted by the police, and they hardly arrested+charged anybody. Many of the limited number of those who *were* arrested were merely picked up, driven to a remote location, and abandoned there by police to get them away from the rest of the demonstration, with no charges pressed (because they dindu nuffin and couldn't be charged). As the baby spiders scatter across the country, what now? Localized protests in provincial capitals are intensifying, now that the protests in the federal capital have been dispersed. This is arguably worse for government and police, since it is more resource-intensive and generally confusing to have numerous simultaneous peaceful protest events and operations to persecute them.
What else could come of the government's actions? Well, what is the message sent by the government's actions, or their response to this peaceful protest? It is a very dangerous message. The government issued a big FUCK YOU to the People of Canada; that if one peacefully petitions for redress of grievances (such as tyrannical gov't regulations barring a man from employment to feed his family, or more generally, regs barring an individual from participating in society), not only will one be ignored, but TPTB will throw the book at anyone who dares question their authority, or anyone who dares demand their Charter-guaranteed rights and freedoms back. Physical assets are being seized, and bank accounts frozen. Based on this entirely peaceful protest, Justin Trudeau has assumed "emergency" war powers, so now due process and the rule of law has been indefinitely suspended, and what he says goes (or what he dictates goes); definitionally a dictator. Initially he claimed the powers would be temporally and geographically limited. Now, the protests at the border and in Ottawa, i.e. the ones the Emergencies Act is meant to address, have already dispersed.
Trudeau is now proposing to keep the emergency powers in place for a few months as a preemptive measure, in order to prevent peaceful protests from reappearing; thus it has gone from an active measure to a preemptive measure--next step is permanence. At this point, we should all know how that goes, two years into two weeks to flatten the curve. First, they lock you down to assist the hospitals that are purportedly being overwhelmed by a big covid wave. Second, they lock you down to prevent the formation of a big covid wave that they purportedly think is coming. Finally, they permanently lock you down to notionally prevent any common cold wave from ever forming again (even though Johns Hopkins found lockdowns to only affect the death rate by 0.2% in a recent study). First: reactive, second: proactive, third: permanent.
I think one would be right to be concerned about what happens next. If not now, then in the months or years to come. People will remember: the door to peaceful resolution of differences has been slammed in the protesters' faces. There is a certain JFK quote about "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible..." I have seen a significant uptick in boomers fedposting on various less-moderated corners of the web. When people whose lives have been ruined by government, with nothing left to lose, bear the scars of the beating they took last time they peacefully petitioned for their grievances to be heard, that could prod them to go about things differently next time. Just look at the
1923 Beer Hall Putsch; could this be a Canadian equivalent to that? Obviously, I disavow anything illegal, and this is merely commentary about current events, rather than a call to anything, but I fear Trudeau may be intentionally sending Canada down this trajectory. I would not be terribly surprised if these cruel and unusual gov't/police actions (which are getting covered-up and denied by MSM and TPTB) serve only to provoke a reaction that the elites want to see from the plebians, which can then be used to justify much more severe crackdowns and rights/liberties infringements, post-9/11 style. If you think the draconian and tyrannical measures are bad now, I bet we've seen nothing yet. This is merely the first act coming to a close, of this broader arc of history.
I do not mean for this to be doom and gloom, nor hopium. Trudeau may be shepherding Canada down the road to tyrannical dictatorship, but his actions are cratering the popularity of the Liberal Party, as well as the NDP; if the pattern holds, they will likely lose the next election, if that is allowed to happen (and freely). At this point, it seems as though it remains "anyone's game."
