We May Have Committed A Little Light Treason
The POEC decision embodies the spirit of the age.
Due to family matters I have much less time to dig into this than I’d like, and — with apologies — will be going entirely offline moments after I post it. But discuss among yourselves, and I’ll be back.
A year ago, Canadians peacefully assembled in their national capital to petition their government for a redress of grievances — gathering in a spirit of joy and hope.
Their “liberal” government responded with naked aggression, declaring a national emergency akin to a major terrorist attack or a wartime threat, and began freezing the bank accounts of participants and supporters. This week, the government commission convened to examine that emergency declaration concluded that it was justified. You can read the full decision, and the report associated with it, here.
It seems to me that this is how the multifaceted crisis over Covid ends. As more and more people come to see the madness of the school closures, mask mandates, and societal lockdowns, and as the appalling danger of the mRNA vaccines becomes perfectly clear, we’ll have a commission to study the failures and issue a final report that will allow us to move on. “Mistakes were made,” the Gottlieb Commission will conclude, but they were made in good faith by pure-hearted public servants.
We will institutionally launder the crisis, as Canada just laundered theirs.
And then, as tens of thousands of young adults detransition, and as many of them kill themselves in despair over the irreversible harm caused to their bodies by a gender-focused social contagion and an out-of-control medical industry, a commission will assemble….
Back in a few days. Sorry for the absence.
Appalling. I know.
I don't know what Paul Rouleau heard, but it clearly wasn't what I heard. The government NEVER made its case. Heck, they basically admitted they skirted the law 'because emergency' and then hid behind Cabinet privilege. There NEVER was a threat to national security. It was chaotic sure but the nation was never under any kind of existential danger. FinTrac said there was no foreign influence, the RCMP said there was no threat, as did Ottawa police. CSIS for its part pulled a 'there was no threat but a threat according to the minutiae of our protocols' type of opinion. On the balance though, no threat.
It was a foolish conclusion but I still have to digest it. It feels like Rouleau was throwing his masters a lifeline. He 'reluctantly' arrived at his conclusion is not a ringing endorsement. And in true non-committal wishy-washy Canadian fashion, he declared it was 'drastic' but not 'dictatorial'. Rouleau will probably go down as a bit of a fool down the road. Remember, he's a liberal activist judge appointed by Justin Trudeau so we shouldn't be too surprised by his conclusion.
Except for the lying, hiding behind cabinet privilege, trampling on protestors by police on horses, and frozen bank accounts.
How idiotic a society to believe this settles it? In fact, Rouleau just made Canada worse off than it was. Our Covid response would come with a price as we knew but I didn't think it was going to be crushing dissent and making it permanent. Rouleau essentially said to future governments it's ok to unleash the dogs of war against people who disagree with the government. And if your Prime Minister happens to be a thin-skinned, despotic brat, good luck because that mofo is gonna use the levers of power to soothe his ego. Right, Justin? Oh, by the way. A month ago Ottawa police arrested a 16-year-old for carrying a Canadian flag. Rules are rules, brah. You can't be waving a Confederate flag like that lest you offend the poor civil servants in Ottawa.
The Commission has no teeth. The battle will continue in the courts. We can't accept this ruling. We can't let this be a precedent. Rouleau did suggest amending the Emergencies Act and that it will be up to the courts (ha, ha) to determine the legality of what the government did. He didn't sound convincing but he did seem to buy into the government's BS 'it was dangerous' narrative.
The people who support this, don't you worry. This monstrous tail will come back and lash back at you. You can't call yourself a 'free and democratic' country and crush dissent - even those you considered to be 'chaotic and messy'.
If i'm Conservative leader Poilievre, I make a stink about this and promise to make the EA threshold so high, clowns like Justin and his clown show cabinet can't exploit it.
We paid a steep price, eh Canada?
Bono once said, 'the world needs more Canada'.
Nope U2 boy. Canada is now a cautionary tale on how to protect the democracies of the West.
If the Nazis had won the war they would have issued a report justifying the Holocaust.