Apparently a video did come out of Trudeau saying something like "Yes, we are violating your rights, but we're doing it because we can." I didn't watch it because I can't stand the guy, but it was making the rounds a few months ago.
I don't know what the answer to this problem is. It is such a helpless feeling having your rights be violated, KNOWING that they are breaking the law, and being able to do absolutely nothing about it. Even court cases seem to be consistently decided in the government's favour. At this point I do not feel hopeful about Canada's future. At least in the US they have more robust rights protection and more checks and balances which has kept some of the worst of this evil at bay (such as Biden's vaccine mandates for employees). Here, nothing and no one seems capable of stopping them. The PM and each provincial Premier are ruling like little tinpot dictators, and yes, we all know there is big money behind the vaccine push which explains their about-faces.
Surprised he is introspective enough to admit to it!
I am not hopeful about our institutions but I have been a lifelong pessimist on that front. My goal is to get this newsletter large enough to the point where, the next time this happens, I can be a vocal enough critic to at least help in the fight against violations in a meaningful way. I do think it's the endgame now though, and they're about to throw the board across the room in frustration while claiming the measures were necessary or the science has changed etc. Whatever can be said to prove those of us that were right all along were wrong, so they can pretend to have dignity (on that point, they are finally admitting the mRNA vaccines are spike producing factories). But l think it will end because 1. The truckers are highly effective, and 2. Midterms in America mean their media, which heavily influences our media, has to pretend they beat the virus. Ie., the political science has changed.
If you watch any debates in the House, the Conservatives are starting to sound like an opposition for the first time in a long time. The Liberals look dejected and only Trudeau loyalists are defending him at this point. And notice who hasn't spoken about the convoy anywhere... Freeland is keeping her hands clean for a reason. Not saying it's a 100% certainty that he gets replaced soon but it sure isn't looking like he has options left
You are probably right, but the scary thing is that Freeland is even more of a totalitarian globalist than Mr Dressup. Isn't she on the board of the WEF? She is a graduate of the WEF's 'Young Global Leader' school, so we know where her loyalties lie, and they aren't in Canada.
Oh yeah. My conservative friends hate her. I think if Pierre takes the conservative leadership globalism vs populism will be coming to Canada. Not sure which side wins that tug of war.
Well, at least we could finally have a public debate about Neoliberalism, which has been the elephant in the room of Canadian politics for far too long. It's becoming increasingly difficult to overlook it outsize presence these days.
I was wondering if enough courageous Liberals crossed the floor and sat with the Conservatives would that change the balance of power.Not sure if it's that easy. Or do they become back benches with a vote, with their ridings blessing. Or enough Liberals call a vote of no confidence with their present leader. I've heard Marc Carney would love to step in. He is probably Trudeau on steroids. Interesting times we live in.
The Liberal MP's are urban laptop class, not able to cross the floor or quit. For bonus marks, check their longevity and pension entitlement, or how long they have to sit until it is vested.
Carney very evidently a member of WEF, Schwab protege.
Conservative pivot in Canada is the exact same... They saw an opportunity snd took it. Sadly, neither the left nor right up here cares about our freedom or they wouldn't have ran on nearly the exact same platform last election. But I feel like the convoy may have a long lasting impact in the same way the tea party or Trump did down there
Also, the Con's last election platform was largely determined by O'Toole, who is now missing in action. Hopefully, their next leader will chart a more populist course of upholding Charter rights. If so, it will be first time I've ever voted Conservative, and I doubt I would be the only voter in that demographic. This a huge opportunity for the Cons to score a majority mandate next election, if they play their cards right.
If I was in the US I'd be hot-footing it for Florida. What do you think about the recent indications the WH is pivoting ahead of the State of the Union in light of poor poll numbers? Do you think the worst areas of the US will follow?
As far as I can tell the WH is starting to pivot as are the hellish blue states, although they still have holdouts. There have been ideas put out that the reason the State of the Union was moved (It's usually in January.) for this reason, to allow for a more gradual pivot, so the Covidians wouldn't get severe whiplash.
Yep. Too many rock star doctors that won't stop talking about it because covid MADE them and theyre so bland they can't just switch topics. A fast pivot is hard, gotta ween them off the sense of power and superiority. Trudeau's problem is unlike Biden, he doesn't have time, which is why I think hes done politically.
LOL yeah there's going to be a lot of exploding heads as they get left behind. The people at the top may be knowing manipulators but they created a lot of true believers.
It's pretty frightening isn't it. There are times when being my age in my early seventies, that I almost feel relieved that I am closer to the end of my life rather than at the beginning. I will keep resisting with every breath in my body but if we don't come out on the side of good I really fear for my children and grandchildren living in such a dystopian world. It truly breaks my heart.
To be fair, and I am no TRUDY fan, he was describing and commenting on the Queb prov govt potential use of the nothwithstanding clause. He referred to it as a loophole. The provision must be subjected to a vote in the legislature and can not be invoked through executive order such as a decree from the PMO nor by a lowly public health officer no matter the grandiosity of the individual. However, while the Notwithstanding clause can be invoked on provisions in section 2 or sections 7 to 15 of the Charter, it can NOT be invoked against democratic and mobility rights (in addition to language rights). THESE are among the rights that the CONVOY has been protesting to reaffirm, restore and to safeguard. So, while the Federal Government has not invoked this clause, has not presented an ACT to do so through the democratic and Parliamentary processes, even if it were to do so it can not push aside the mobility and democratic rights that the CONVOY are defending. Please understand this and share it. Further, the Feds have NOT implemented the emergency act and can not rely solely on an asserted emergency by a lowly public health officer (regardless of her ethnicity by the way). There is a democratic process that has been skipped over. THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL PROBLEM from which the many other instances of over-reach have flowed. The Feds are violating mobility rights pure and simple. This is not subject to over-ride by the sayso of some executive officers, including the PM. Nor is it subject to the over-ride of the Notwithstanding clause - even if the Lib-NDP could muster support for such an ACT of parliament through the committee and vetting process much less through a vote on the floor of the HOUSE. The hand of the CONVOY is very strong on this legal aspect.
And I should add that all of the CHARTER rights and freedoms have been fully applicable precisely because there has been no ACT passed federally nor provincially to over-ride any part of the CHARTER. They can not retroactively apply the clause to the unlawful conduct of the past two years. Further, the 'mandates' and the pack of restrictions used during those years can not pass muster because there is a distinct lack of justification as per the Oakes test which sets a very high bar for the advocates of mandates to overcome. That is why they never really bothered to try. Instead they have hampered the judicial process and actually biased the courts by imposing masking and distancing and quarentining and testing and vaxxing nonsense on the courts which have also resorted to the use of ZOOM. This has injected bias into the hospitals also, of course, which have been treated as workplaces that must comply with those absurd restrictions. Neither vaxing nor masking show benefit even in health care environments such as surgeries and sick wards -- not for viral spread. Not for C19. The government over-reach has poisoned the courts and the hospitals against our freedoms -- and against medical and scientific discourse and practice. This has been a disaster that can be placed in direct competition with the democratic process rights that are safeguarded against even the use of the Notwithstanding clause. This should cause ordianary Canadians to be disgusted at the mealy-mouthed ditherings among politicians who are playing medicine and making a mess of it. And we should also own up and acknowledge that we have been ineffective or very slow to assert our democratic rights and other Charter rights. The COURTS have become BIASED by their compliance with the mandates and restrictions in the functioning of our judicial system. You might even be barred from jury duty if you do not divulge your vax status or if you indicate you are not vax. This is unjust discrimination integral to the COURTS in which each of us has a full right to be tried by a jury of our peers. Then there is the trap of contempt of court which can now be abused by judges and has been abused.
continued ... This is a very difficult thing to counter act in reality because the court treats contempt as a crime against the authority of the very court that is biased in favour of the mandates and restrictions that itself has been implementing both as a workplace and in the exercise of the judicial process. Consider the depth and breadth of the damage done to our governance at all levels up and down and far and wide. Nauseating. C19 has made our society very sick indeed but not in the way a virus typically infests. No enemy could have done this much damage without our compliance.
Really enjoyed your post. You are bang on but I suspect most Canadian citizens are actually unaware of our rights. A hero in this effort to reclaim our rights has to be mentioned. Brian Peckford. HE has the knowledge and was part of creating the Canadian Charter of Rights. He is speaking out and is trying to educate the people I am beginning to wonder if our education system has even bothered to teach their students civics as it pertains to Canada. I am going to ask my 4 grandchildren.
Remember that Peckford was a signatury but still alive are Chretien and Romanow both of whom claimed credit for the break through deal behind the back of the PQ and its Quebec delegation. Quebec legislature has not ratified the Constitution of 1982 and yet look at the amending formula. The amending formula itself can not be changed without unanimous agreement of fed and prov govts which kind of undermines the current constitution because of the lack of unanimity in 1982 and to this day. In fact, unanimity is one of five amending formulas written into the constitution. There was an amendment on rights of aboriginal peoples - it was approved with the best known formula, House + Senate + 2/3rds of provincial legislatures representing half the population of the country.
The Charter is rather young, compared to say the US original bill of rights and first set of amendments which were adopted very close in time to the ratification of the constitution itself. So our Charter has not been truly tested in our judicial system. Lots of ambiguities raised by conjecture rather than the certainties of precedent. This has given current governments far too much political discretion in trampling freedom.
When we lacked a Charter, we learned hard lessons of government over-reach during various times in our history when the War Measures Act was used to counter general strikes and, of course, the FLQ terrorism and kidnapping/murder crises of 1970. The latter prolly made the sovereignty movement's growth all but inevitable. And, in turn, that led to the Constitutional deal of 1982 and the distinct problem of Quebec not fully signing on to the Constitution Act. As important as this historical context is, it pales in comparison to the crisis currently faced across the entire country.
Drama school teacher TRUDY prolly sees this as his shining moment.
“That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true — a foolish figure,”
That Shakespeare line was relevant during the long, very long, discussions and drama that preceded the 1982 deal; and it seems apt for the boy TRUDY today. In the proper context, in Hamlet, that line was prompted by a rebuke.
“More matter with less art.“
Again, right fitting to the boy TRUDY.
The convoy and its supporters are dealing with a mad man of sorts who thinks it is all a predestined play on a stage of his own imagination. Not even the peaceful and happy faces parked outside the front door of Parliament have snapped him out of his bizare self-aggrandizing delusions to just acknowledge the down-to-earth concerns of ordinary Canadians. We are the 'red shirts' in his Star Trek fictional world. EVEN the artifice of his speachifying style reminds of us of paradoies of James T. Kirk. The man is a bit like NERO who imagined himselves a great poet and actor and boored the hell out of his subjects by performing his innovations - sometimes written by himself - to his captured audiences.
The workings of the Constitution should be straight forward in principle. The freedom of the individual is paramount and the government must safeguard that freedom even in times of emergency and public safety. THE democratic rights are essential to even the use of the Nothwithstanding Clause which would permit over-ride of CHARTER rights -- but not of the very democratic rights and mobility rights that enable the over-ride clause to be brought forward, vetted, and voted on in the House. TRUDY has in effect invoked the over-ride without actually adhering to the Constitution itself. He has then reach waaaaaay beyond to attack the democratic rights and mobility rights that are beyond the reach of the over-ride clause. It is all madness. More's the pity.
The outcome of Brian Peckford's lawsuit will be eventually in determine whether the Charter is worth the paper it's written on. It's also worth noting the Supreme Court of Canada is not averse to slapping down a Prime Minister or Premier when they overstep the legal reach of their powers. Time will tell.
Bonnie Henry today, at our weekly televised health update, freely admitted, when questioned about the vaccine passports, that they were put in to up compliance vaccine numbers. Nothing to do with health. And no one questioned this in the media as usual. It was apparently all quite normal, and accepted as a public health edict. What's worse is she announced the deadline for another 4000 health care workers to be vaccinated by March or face termination. This appears to capture the rest of the health care industry. It includes dentists and naturopaths. So it seems that British Columbia is digging in, at least in the short term.
I'm not upset with the politicians for the power grab, thats what politicians do, not political agents like Bonnie Henry.. Just at the judiciary. The "this is about compliance" and "we must punish the unvaccinated" people should have been swiftly kicked down in court, yet there is an absense of good men and women in thr judiciary class in Canada.
The Nash move for healthcare workers is to not get vaccinated. Lots of vacant jobs in the provinces that are opening up if push comes to shove.. But more likely BC admits defeat sooner rather than later
This is one of the most worrying parts of the pandemic. They freely admit the injustices but claim they are for the 'greater good' and the people go along with it nodding away because they have heard the word 'good' without realising what that means.
Please read and share this extended series of comments. There is great ignorance among politicians and police on these points. And that is also true of the general public and electorate. Our system of governance has been thoroughly undermined. These comments describe and explain.
Preaching to the choir. The woke know only their way or highway. You are free to agree with them or be cancelled. One-way-street, do what I say kinda crowd.
How do we tolerate these people? That what Trudeau would ask. And I would have to agree.
There can be no middle ground. Sorry to break the news.
The various mandates, for masking and vaxxing for examples, are inferior to health and safety legislation and inferior to provincial human rights codes. One need not go to the Charter. The human rights codes rely on evidence-based risks; any assertion of such is subject to fact-finding and mere sayso does not suffice. Also mere 'expert opinion', including computer modeling/projections, is the 5th or bottom level in the hierarchy of 5 levels or grades of scientific evidence. Likewise the standard for health and safety is reasonable precation; to invoke this is to assert a fact claim and, again, this is subject to fact-finding. Neither the masking nor the vaxxing mandates, or regulations, can survive scrutiny of evidence. Arbitrary sayso does not translate into a do-so. The evidence stands against these mandates. Policy grade evidence exists and it is not even close. However, for whatever reason, these foolish regulations have not been tested in a fair court whether that be a fair arbitrartion, fair court contest on the substaznce, or an open and transparenty court of public opinion. The last federal election, for example, was a shambles and we, the electorate allowed for that to transpire. Shameful. The abuses of lockdowns and mandates has cause profound harm and suffering across the country. There must be a reckoning. And we do not need to wait for a bigwig judge to decide on constitutional provisons that are plainly obvously against those arbitrary saysoers. Instead of humbly being do-soers, Canadians needed to find the bloodymindedness to say NO and to act on that in defiance of the covidmania tyrannies.
Civics - USA = High School - Grades 9 thru 12. Usually taken senior year (12th grade). I think it was mandatory. (It was a long time ago for me, so please forgive my fuzzy memory.)
Might be different in Canads or at least at my high school... But I was as far away from the center of Canadian power as could be so that might play into it
Apparently a video did come out of Trudeau saying something like "Yes, we are violating your rights, but we're doing it because we can." I didn't watch it because I can't stand the guy, but it was making the rounds a few months ago.
I don't know what the answer to this problem is. It is such a helpless feeling having your rights be violated, KNOWING that they are breaking the law, and being able to do absolutely nothing about it. Even court cases seem to be consistently decided in the government's favour. At this point I do not feel hopeful about Canada's future. At least in the US they have more robust rights protection and more checks and balances which has kept some of the worst of this evil at bay (such as Biden's vaccine mandates for employees). Here, nothing and no one seems capable of stopping them. The PM and each provincial Premier are ruling like little tinpot dictators, and yes, we all know there is big money behind the vaccine push which explains their about-faces.
Surprised he is introspective enough to admit to it!
I am not hopeful about our institutions but I have been a lifelong pessimist on that front. My goal is to get this newsletter large enough to the point where, the next time this happens, I can be a vocal enough critic to at least help in the fight against violations in a meaningful way. I do think it's the endgame now though, and they're about to throw the board across the room in frustration while claiming the measures were necessary or the science has changed etc. Whatever can be said to prove those of us that were right all along were wrong, so they can pretend to have dignity (on that point, they are finally admitting the mRNA vaccines are spike producing factories). But l think it will end because 1. The truckers are highly effective, and 2. Midterms in America mean their media, which heavily influences our media, has to pretend they beat the virus. Ie., the political science has changed.
I hope and pray you're right. Trudeau will look pretty stupid if he's still pushing this stuff when the rest of the world has moved on.
If you watch any debates in the House, the Conservatives are starting to sound like an opposition for the first time in a long time. The Liberals look dejected and only Trudeau loyalists are defending him at this point. And notice who hasn't spoken about the convoy anywhere... Freeland is keeping her hands clean for a reason. Not saying it's a 100% certainty that he gets replaced soon but it sure isn't looking like he has options left
You are probably right, but the scary thing is that Freeland is even more of a totalitarian globalist than Mr Dressup. Isn't she on the board of the WEF? She is a graduate of the WEF's 'Young Global Leader' school, so we know where her loyalties lie, and they aren't in Canada.
She's the director of the WEF Global Leaders organization now. How can she be the Deputy PM of Canada at the same time? Rhetorical.
Oh yeah. My conservative friends hate her. I think if Pierre takes the conservative leadership globalism vs populism will be coming to Canada. Not sure which side wins that tug of war.
Well, at least we could finally have a public debate about Neoliberalism, which has been the elephant in the room of Canadian politics for far too long. It's becoming increasingly difficult to overlook it outsize presence these days.
I think you are correct, and the problem is she would be even more dangerous than the turd since she's not stupid like he is.
I'm having a flashback to 1950's USA: " Are you now or have you ever been a member of the..?." WEF in our case.
I think that question will have to be asked in every meeting and debate if we ever have another election.
99.27% of the Karens will not get the point.
Praying every day for that.
I was wondering if enough courageous Liberals crossed the floor and sat with the Conservatives would that change the balance of power.Not sure if it's that easy. Or do they become back benches with a vote, with their ridings blessing. Or enough Liberals call a vote of no confidence with their present leader. I've heard Marc Carney would love to step in. He is probably Trudeau on steroids. Interesting times we live in.
The Liberal MP's are urban laptop class, not able to cross the floor or quit. For bonus marks, check their longevity and pension entitlement, or how long they have to sit until it is vested.
Carney very evidently a member of WEF, Schwab protege.
Wow what a great take, I hadn't even thought of that. 👋👋
Hey, you could be in the US where we have some people pivoting on the issues and others doubling down on the punitive measures. It's a mess!
Blue state pivoting is COMPLETELY a political calculus to try to salvage midterms. DEMOCRAT & LIBERAL IDIOTS DO NOT CARE ABOUT OUR FREEDOM!
Conservative pivot in Canada is the exact same... They saw an opportunity snd took it. Sadly, neither the left nor right up here cares about our freedom or they wouldn't have ran on nearly the exact same platform last election. But I feel like the convoy may have a long lasting impact in the same way the tea party or Trump did down there
Also, the Con's last election platform was largely determined by O'Toole, who is now missing in action. Hopefully, their next leader will chart a more populist course of upholding Charter rights. If so, it will be first time I've ever voted Conservative, and I doubt I would be the only voter in that demographic. This a huge opportunity for the Cons to score a majority mandate next election, if they play their cards right.
If I was in the US I'd be hot-footing it for Florida. What do you think about the recent indications the WH is pivoting ahead of the State of the Union in light of poor poll numbers? Do you think the worst areas of the US will follow?
As far as I can tell the WH is starting to pivot as are the hellish blue states, although they still have holdouts. There have been ideas put out that the reason the State of the Union was moved (It's usually in January.) for this reason, to allow for a more gradual pivot, so the Covidians wouldn't get severe whiplash.
Yep. Too many rock star doctors that won't stop talking about it because covid MADE them and theyre so bland they can't just switch topics. A fast pivot is hard, gotta ween them off the sense of power and superiority. Trudeau's problem is unlike Biden, he doesn't have time, which is why I think hes done politically.
LOL yeah there's going to be a lot of exploding heads as they get left behind. The people at the top may be knowing manipulators but they created a lot of true believers.
He always looks stupid and he certainly has become quite the pharma sales rep, but good point nonetheless. 😉
It's pretty frightening isn't it. There are times when being my age in my early seventies, that I almost feel relieved that I am closer to the end of my life rather than at the beginning. I will keep resisting with every breath in my body but if we don't come out on the side of good I really fear for my children and grandchildren living in such a dystopian world. It truly breaks my heart.
I have frequently found myself envying elderly people and people who die these past couple of years. Weird place to be in.
To be fair, and I am no TRUDY fan, he was describing and commenting on the Queb prov govt potential use of the nothwithstanding clause. He referred to it as a loophole. The provision must be subjected to a vote in the legislature and can not be invoked through executive order such as a decree from the PMO nor by a lowly public health officer no matter the grandiosity of the individual. However, while the Notwithstanding clause can be invoked on provisions in section 2 or sections 7 to 15 of the Charter, it can NOT be invoked against democratic and mobility rights (in addition to language rights). THESE are among the rights that the CONVOY has been protesting to reaffirm, restore and to safeguard. So, while the Federal Government has not invoked this clause, has not presented an ACT to do so through the democratic and Parliamentary processes, even if it were to do so it can not push aside the mobility and democratic rights that the CONVOY are defending. Please understand this and share it. Further, the Feds have NOT implemented the emergency act and can not rely solely on an asserted emergency by a lowly public health officer (regardless of her ethnicity by the way). There is a democratic process that has been skipped over. THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL PROBLEM from which the many other instances of over-reach have flowed. The Feds are violating mobility rights pure and simple. This is not subject to over-ride by the sayso of some executive officers, including the PM. Nor is it subject to the over-ride of the Notwithstanding clause - even if the Lib-NDP could muster support for such an ACT of parliament through the committee and vetting process much less through a vote on the floor of the HOUSE. The hand of the CONVOY is very strong on this legal aspect.
And I should add that all of the CHARTER rights and freedoms have been fully applicable precisely because there has been no ACT passed federally nor provincially to over-ride any part of the CHARTER. They can not retroactively apply the clause to the unlawful conduct of the past two years. Further, the 'mandates' and the pack of restrictions used during those years can not pass muster because there is a distinct lack of justification as per the Oakes test which sets a very high bar for the advocates of mandates to overcome. That is why they never really bothered to try. Instead they have hampered the judicial process and actually biased the courts by imposing masking and distancing and quarentining and testing and vaxxing nonsense on the courts which have also resorted to the use of ZOOM. This has injected bias into the hospitals also, of course, which have been treated as workplaces that must comply with those absurd restrictions. Neither vaxing nor masking show benefit even in health care environments such as surgeries and sick wards -- not for viral spread. Not for C19. The government over-reach has poisoned the courts and the hospitals against our freedoms -- and against medical and scientific discourse and practice. This has been a disaster that can be placed in direct competition with the democratic process rights that are safeguarded against even the use of the Notwithstanding clause. This should cause ordianary Canadians to be disgusted at the mealy-mouthed ditherings among politicians who are playing medicine and making a mess of it. And we should also own up and acknowledge that we have been ineffective or very slow to assert our democratic rights and other Charter rights. The COURTS have become BIASED by their compliance with the mandates and restrictions in the functioning of our judicial system. You might even be barred from jury duty if you do not divulge your vax status or if you indicate you are not vax. This is unjust discrimination integral to the COURTS in which each of us has a full right to be tried by a jury of our peers. Then there is the trap of contempt of court which can now be abused by judges and has been abused.
continued ... This is a very difficult thing to counter act in reality because the court treats contempt as a crime against the authority of the very court that is biased in favour of the mandates and restrictions that itself has been implementing both as a workplace and in the exercise of the judicial process. Consider the depth and breadth of the damage done to our governance at all levels up and down and far and wide. Nauseating. C19 has made our society very sick indeed but not in the way a virus typically infests. No enemy could have done this much damage without our compliance.
Really enjoyed your post. You are bang on but I suspect most Canadian citizens are actually unaware of our rights. A hero in this effort to reclaim our rights has to be mentioned. Brian Peckford. HE has the knowledge and was part of creating the Canadian Charter of Rights. He is speaking out and is trying to educate the people I am beginning to wonder if our education system has even bothered to teach their students civics as it pertains to Canada. I am going to ask my 4 grandchildren.
Thanks for kind words.
Remember that Peckford was a signatury but still alive are Chretien and Romanow both of whom claimed credit for the break through deal behind the back of the PQ and its Quebec delegation. Quebec legislature has not ratified the Constitution of 1982 and yet look at the amending formula. The amending formula itself can not be changed without unanimous agreement of fed and prov govts which kind of undermines the current constitution because of the lack of unanimity in 1982 and to this day. In fact, unanimity is one of five amending formulas written into the constitution. There was an amendment on rights of aboriginal peoples - it was approved with the best known formula, House + Senate + 2/3rds of provincial legislatures representing half the population of the country.
The Charter is rather young, compared to say the US original bill of rights and first set of amendments which were adopted very close in time to the ratification of the constitution itself. So our Charter has not been truly tested in our judicial system. Lots of ambiguities raised by conjecture rather than the certainties of precedent. This has given current governments far too much political discretion in trampling freedom.
When we lacked a Charter, we learned hard lessons of government over-reach during various times in our history when the War Measures Act was used to counter general strikes and, of course, the FLQ terrorism and kidnapping/murder crises of 1970. The latter prolly made the sovereignty movement's growth all but inevitable. And, in turn, that led to the Constitutional deal of 1982 and the distinct problem of Quebec not fully signing on to the Constitution Act. As important as this historical context is, it pales in comparison to the crisis currently faced across the entire country.
Drama school teacher TRUDY prolly sees this as his shining moment.
“That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true — a foolish figure,”
That Shakespeare line was relevant during the long, very long, discussions and drama that preceded the 1982 deal; and it seems apt for the boy TRUDY today. In the proper context, in Hamlet, that line was prompted by a rebuke.
“More matter with less art.“
Again, right fitting to the boy TRUDY.
The convoy and its supporters are dealing with a mad man of sorts who thinks it is all a predestined play on a stage of his own imagination. Not even the peaceful and happy faces parked outside the front door of Parliament have snapped him out of his bizare self-aggrandizing delusions to just acknowledge the down-to-earth concerns of ordinary Canadians. We are the 'red shirts' in his Star Trek fictional world. EVEN the artifice of his speachifying style reminds of us of paradoies of James T. Kirk. The man is a bit like NERO who imagined himselves a great poet and actor and boored the hell out of his subjects by performing his innovations - sometimes written by himself - to his captured audiences.
The workings of the Constitution should be straight forward in principle. The freedom of the individual is paramount and the government must safeguard that freedom even in times of emergency and public safety. THE democratic rights are essential to even the use of the Nothwithstanding Clause which would permit over-ride of CHARTER rights -- but not of the very democratic rights and mobility rights that enable the over-ride clause to be brought forward, vetted, and voted on in the House. TRUDY has in effect invoked the over-ride without actually adhering to the Constitution itself. He has then reach waaaaaay beyond to attack the democratic rights and mobility rights that are beyond the reach of the over-ride clause. It is all madness. More's the pity.
The outcome of Brian Peckford's lawsuit will be eventually in determine whether the Charter is worth the paper it's written on. It's also worth noting the Supreme Court of Canada is not averse to slapping down a Prime Minister or Premier when they overstep the legal reach of their powers. Time will tell.
Bonnie Henry today, at our weekly televised health update, freely admitted, when questioned about the vaccine passports, that they were put in to up compliance vaccine numbers. Nothing to do with health. And no one questioned this in the media as usual. It was apparently all quite normal, and accepted as a public health edict. What's worse is she announced the deadline for another 4000 health care workers to be vaccinated by March or face termination. This appears to capture the rest of the health care industry. It includes dentists and naturopaths. So it seems that British Columbia is digging in, at least in the short term.
I'm not upset with the politicians for the power grab, thats what politicians do, not political agents like Bonnie Henry.. Just at the judiciary. The "this is about compliance" and "we must punish the unvaccinated" people should have been swiftly kicked down in court, yet there is an absense of good men and women in thr judiciary class in Canada.
The Nash move for healthcare workers is to not get vaccinated. Lots of vacant jobs in the provinces that are opening up if push comes to shove.. But more likely BC admits defeat sooner rather than later
This is one of the most worrying parts of the pandemic. They freely admit the injustices but claim they are for the 'greater good' and the people go along with it nodding away because they have heard the word 'good' without realising what that means.
Please read and share this extended series of comments. There is great ignorance among politicians and police on these points. And that is also true of the general public and electorate. Our system of governance has been thoroughly undermined. These comments describe and explain.
https://jestre.substack.com/p/the-people-infringing-on-our-rights/comment/5002706
Preaching to the choir. The woke know only their way or highway. You are free to agree with them or be cancelled. One-way-street, do what I say kinda crowd.
How do we tolerate these people? That what Trudeau would ask. And I would have to agree.
There can be no middle ground. Sorry to break the news.
The various mandates, for masking and vaxxing for examples, are inferior to health and safety legislation and inferior to provincial human rights codes. One need not go to the Charter. The human rights codes rely on evidence-based risks; any assertion of such is subject to fact-finding and mere sayso does not suffice. Also mere 'expert opinion', including computer modeling/projections, is the 5th or bottom level in the hierarchy of 5 levels or grades of scientific evidence. Likewise the standard for health and safety is reasonable precation; to invoke this is to assert a fact claim and, again, this is subject to fact-finding. Neither the masking nor the vaxxing mandates, or regulations, can survive scrutiny of evidence. Arbitrary sayso does not translate into a do-so. The evidence stands against these mandates. Policy grade evidence exists and it is not even close. However, for whatever reason, these foolish regulations have not been tested in a fair court whether that be a fair arbitrartion, fair court contest on the substaznce, or an open and transparenty court of public opinion. The last federal election, for example, was a shambles and we, the electorate allowed for that to transpire. Shameful. The abuses of lockdowns and mandates has cause profound harm and suffering across the country. There must be a reckoning. And we do not need to wait for a bigwig judge to decide on constitutional provisons that are plainly obvously against those arbitrary saysoers. Instead of humbly being do-soers, Canadians needed to find the bloodymindedness to say NO and to act on that in defiance of the covidmania tyrannies.
I’m reminded of two things:
Paul Joseph Watson’s “but it’s different when WE do it!”
And
“Just because you read Breitbart doesn’t mean you have insight like me from my masters in Political Science!”
—> reply:
“Oh excuse me! And I’d like a tall Caramel Machiatto to go.”
Civics - USA = High School - Grades 9 thru 12. Usually taken senior year (12th grade). I think it was mandatory. (It was a long time ago for me, so please forgive my fuzzy memory.)
Might be different in Canads or at least at my high school... But I was as far away from the center of Canadian power as could be so that might play into it