Welp, Trudeau pulled the gloves off…
OTTAWA, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S. border crossings and paralyzed parts of the capital.
Full article, HERE from Reuters.
And another article, also from Reuters, HERE, on the Ottawa police chief’s resignation.
If I were a Canadian trucker, I’d get with my buddies, go home, and park the trucks. When the food isn’t getting delivered, or parts delivered to manufacturers, or anything moving in any quantities by trucks, THAT will make John and Jane Q. Public sit up and take notice.
And as far as I can tell, even with the ’emergency powers’ that Trudeau put into effect, there wouldn’t be a damned thing Trudeau could do about it!
YMMV, IANAL, etc…
Frankly, I cannot believe the stupidity. All that the administration up there had to do was negotiate in good faith with the truckers. What happened? Trudeau ran like a scared rabbit, then tried to manufacture hatred/violence against him/the .gov, neither of which is true. Then going after money from various organizations after they buffaloed GFM (which showed their true colors), and GiveSendGo taking up the fundraising and laughing at Trudeau (yay for them). Trudeau has backed himself and the .gov into a corner than I’m not sure they know how to get out of…
And in other countries, including the US, truckers are watching this and going, “Hmmm… might work here (insert country here). Especially with the US supposedly closing the southern border (or at least the legal crossings) 22 Feb to non-vaccinated truckers (not mentioning the multitude of illegals flooding across the border then getting sent all over the US).
I really don’t want to do interesting times again… sigh
Don’t feel too bad. I think even God is face palming and wondering if the human race is worth dealing with.
Last night Mark Levin was playing some Canadian Government news release to the effect that the government was going to freeze individual assets of banking accounts of the participants and anyone identified as being an insurrectionist. Canada is now a police state of the Nazi or USSR governments.
From The Times of India,
“Trudeau panned for invoking emergency powers to quell truckers strike in Canada — after he supported farmers blockade in India”
What a maroon!
Trudeau and his followers/enablers seem to live in an alternate universe. They haven’t a clue as to how to deal with the real world. Same can be said for the swamp/sewer to the South.
I suspect we’ll find that his invoking these powers will be the worst thing he could have done.
As you say, all they have to do is nothing to win. He is trying to force tow truck drivers to work for him now; I don’t see that going well, let alone trying to force truckers to deliver goods. I’m glad the western provinces wised up and lifted restrictions.
I wonder how confiscating bank accounts without a court order and similar punitive measures will work out; any person involved will be skating on thin ice legally even though they don’t have as many legal protections as we do.
Went from fringe minority to full national security threat real quick.
I don’t see how this goes well for Rainbow Justine.
The greatest threats to Canada and America are the Trudeau Regime and the Biden* Regime, respectively. China comes second.
freedom convoys are occurring all over the world as we speak, even one in israel. following trudeaus order to seize accounts has met with growing boycotts and its just the first day. the ottawa police chief resigned.he was a wannabe gestapo. it didn’t go over well. frankly, i don’t think the convoy will go so well down here. too many headbusters in the police force now days, too many tyrants in need of attitude adjustment. they’ll overstep, use the resistance to call for martial law, overstep some more….
In August of 1981, the air traffic controller’s union (PATCO) went on strike and Reagan ordered them all to return to work, or be fired, and then he did it.
What are the differences between that situation and this one? Is it just the relative popularity of Reagan vs Trudeau?
Well for one, all air traffic controllers *are* government employees. So Reagan *could* fire them. For two, as government employees, the strike was actually illegal, so they didn’t have a legal leg to stand on when he fired them.
Trudeau, on the other hand, is trying to tell privately employees people, and self-employed people, (owner-operators) that they have to work.
For three, Reagan did not tell the country they were a “radical fringe minority” or “racist fascists”. He didn’t really play to the media instead of negotiating with them at all.
For four, he didn’t seize their bank accounts, or funding, or send police door to door to harass and intimidate people who had spoken in support of them.
For five, he didn’t declare martial law when they wouldn’t obey. Reagan simply fired them, and moved a bunch of military air traffic controllers into their slots, to fill the emergency need until more could be hired & trained.
All- Thanks for the comments, and yes Pat, Dot is correct. Reagan gave them EVERY opportunity to back down and they refused, thinking they had the ‘power’ to deny him. THEN he fired them, as Dot said.
I remember when this happened. One of my cousins applied for an ATC position when they hired replacements for the fired controllers. He retired with a very nice pension a few years ago.
I sometimes kick myself in that I should have done the same. (Me, as an Air Traffic controller. What a scary thought 🙂
I tried to get my 17-year-old Kenneth interested in that as an Army school, but he chose combat engineer instead. I guess he like blowing bridges better than crashing jets.
ONFO:
“I really don’t want to do interesting times again”
Again? Do you mean “still”?
Pat:
“like blowing bridges better than crashing jets”
Too hard to attach charges to a moving object.
At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, remember that Hitler got von Hindenberg to make the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties. This is what is meant when they say “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
Neither do I want to do interesting times again however, https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/biden-stumbles-toward-war-russians
At best it seems like the DC circus clowns are stumbling us back into a Cold War situation. At worst, I don’t even want to think about where they might take us…
All- Can’t disagree with anybody… dammit…
Gots to know the rules of the game that you are in. “General strikes” are tough to organize. Establishing a common identity takes work and getting a high percentage of the essential population to cooperate is difficult.
The truckers have a sense of identity and are necessary to keep the cities fed and fueled. The truckers have a strangle hold on the economy and, since the industry has been short of drivers, even a partial walkout is going to hurt. Fighting over a vaccination for “youngish” drivers is foolish. There is little risk from disease but definite risk from the untested mRNA vaccination. At the plant where I was employed, we took deliveries but rarely had to interact with the drivers. Vaccinations and masks would have been pointless.
The elite and the media don’t care about the “lowly” truckers, they care about power and their authority. That support may slacken as the fridge and the gas tanks empty. No trucks means no business and no grift. Even the containers that come by ship and rail travel the “final mile” on a chassis pulled by a rig and driver. When it comes to “supply chain” snarls, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Canadian military doesn’t have enough resources to serve as even a temporary replacement.
It is obvious that Trudooh is setting himself up as “Premier for Life”. Even his buddies are not going to like that. If the economy craters due to this, the elite loose power and profit. They may then join the howling chorus from the cold and starving urban areas. There are unlikely to be many who will “fall on their swords” to protect Trudooh’s ego. Honk! Honk!
It’s interesting.