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Don’t Canada America
No posts of my mine receive fewer clicks than ones about Canada. I suspect you have long either taken our northern neighbor for granted or perhaps find the world’s second-largest nation (geographically) north of our 5,525-mile border quaint if not dull.
Consider our respective nations’ unofficial mottos. We have long enshrined “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” from our Declaration of Independence. In Canada, it’s “peace, order, and good government.” Our national emblem is the soaring, sharp-eyed bird of prey, the bald eagle; in Canada, it’s the noble, industrious beaver. Since our war for independence, Canada – whose head of state remains the British sovereign – works hard to be different than Americans, despite common heritage, values, and proximity. Really hard.
How to convince the people on our side that this is worth fighting over seems to be the problem.
But it seems like the entire Anglosphere has the same inclinations. The UK countries have never had freedom of speech, certainly not as a fundamental right. Look at how incredibly repressive the Australia and New Zealand governments have been about COVID, and the police in the UK home countries have persecuted speech for some number of years now. It’s bad enough that our leftie corporations embrace woke values, but they don’t yet have .gov fully enforcing those values – yet. It’s certainly the left’s dream but we still can fight it out. I believe that time has passed for most of the rest of the English speaking world.
The biggest reason the left (and GOPe) fought DJT with all their might is that he showed that we can fight back, and actually win.
True. But our rights only exist, if the courts recognize them. For citizens arrested in D.C., they effectively have no rights.
Yes. In the past three days we have been subjected to lectures from people at Ricochet.
The moment the vote passed, Conservative Interim Leader Candice Bergen rose to announce that the Official Opposition was invoking section 59 of the Emergencies Act to table a motion to revoke the declaration of the emergency. You see, the Act doesn’t technically specify that it’s an either/or situation between the government calling for a vote or the opposition calling for a vote. The Act says that the government must table a motion for confirmation within 7 sitting days (which they did), and that Parliament may table a motion for revocation if 20 MPs sign the motion. The Act doesn’t say that only one or the other may occur. It also doesn’t say that Parliament can’t keep tabling motions to revoke over and over again.
Clever procedural gambit, if the Speaker goes for it. They could be doing nothing but debating the Emergencies Act indefinitely.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/FullText.html#h-214249
Agree with you Kelly. Canada by far the best foreign vacation I and my family ever experienced. Loved Vancouver, B.C. and the travel across Alberta in ’86 reminded me of what the U.S. West looked like decades ago. Youngest son wanted to go there after his H.S. graduation so went to Montreal and Quebec and had a wonderful time. Went back 8 years ago and thought Ottawa was the best foreign capitol we had ever seen. Never got to Toronto. What a tragedy over something so mundane. Most are vaccinated. The unvaxed truckers are no public health threat. WTF?
So, here we are in the midst of a “national emergency”, and the House of Commons is on holiday until Monday.
This place is friggin’ Wonderland.
I believe in bright lines for government, since without them interpretation becomes an issue.
With respect to emergency powers, politicians should face an automatic recall within six months of evoking them. At the beginning of the pandemic, it seems most politicians around the world would have survived that recall. So it should be extended to another year if those emergency powers continue. Elections held once a year until the emergency powers end.
In the case of Trudeau, he doesn’t have to call another election for over 3 years. They should write into law that Parliament has to stand for election within that six months given that it extended Trudeau’s emergency powers declaration.
Two thirds of Democrats support tyranny.
The poll shows that just over half of American voters disapprove of Trudeau’s actions, including about three-quarters of independent voters and almost 9-in-10 Republicans. However, most Democrats approve of Trudeau’s response to the protest.
I think use of emergency powers should automatically cause leaving office in 6 months and a bam on serving in any office again or ever getting any contact or serving of the board or significant ownership or officer. Ever.
Make em think about the sacrifice.
That’s not violence.
When the bridge was blocked after a while factories on both sides reduced shifts due to lack of parts, and (other) people’s livelihoods were affected. When would that economic impact become an emergency and how should Governments respond to that?
Makes me think of a drunken Conga line where every eighth step the music stops and everyone giddily shouts, Emergency!
Has there ever been a sober conga line?
Time for involuntary servitude! To deal with the national emergency!
The government already wiped out people’s livelihoods. And used violence to enforce their will.
The message is that only government gets to do it.
Its incredibly funny to Canadian residents. The reason? No auto dealers have stock in Canada and back orders are 6 months for a vehicle whether domestic or import. And it was that way before the blockade.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/09/us-auto-plants-face-shortages-shutdowns-layoffs-protesters-block-canada-bridge
Right.
Things have been jammed up for a long time now, Zafar. At least since September.
Maybe this is Dr. Fauci-stein’s Monster. He helped create this fear and passion for tyranny in Democrats. It is scary how quickly regular folks got enthusiastic for rounding up the “unclean” and breaking up families and destroying livelihoods. Maybe it was always hiding underneath and he just unleashed the inner monster. I think the monster that Dr. Fauci created in the media is scarier than the monster he created in the lab.
I really believe that Fauci is just agreeably following orders from higher up.