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The Continuing Descent of Canada into a Police State
In the name of “the safety of our people,” Justin Trudeau issued an order stopping all handgun sales and transfers.
Canada does not have a Second Amendment. I wonder how he intends to stop all illegal handgun transfers to and between criminals. Does he even think he can? Somehow, I don’t think this order is going to improve the safety of his population.
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The United States must work harder at helping our neighbor to the south stabilize itself. Canada is taking some dark turns.
From the link inserted in this post:
Look for the rate of home invasion robberies and carjackings to start climbing in urban areas of Canada.
It doesn’t matter if it works or not, in fact Trudeau and those like him probably hope and expect it won’t. Because then they can escalate to the “necessity” of confiscation.
Evil man.
Whenever the gun grabbers say they arent gun grabbing, point to Canada.
Primier Zoolander strikes again
I do not feel sorry for them – they voted that fool in
He can’t – too much work. It’s easier to blame the problem on law-abiding gun owners and interfere with their natural rights . . .
And when those “programs” (inevitably/intentionally) fail, he’ll want to ban ALL guns, like I commented earlier.
Will this help lead Alberta to secede and join the U.S.?
Good grief, let’s not have another war with Canada.
Trudeau inherits Castro’s power lust.
Mexico seemed pretty quiet the last time I was there. Could’ve been just me, though. I do have a calming influence, no question about it. Soon as I leave, though – kablooey!
Canada’s proximity to the United States will always mean a relief valve for Canadians themselves. One example is their health care system. It has extensive shortcomings, but Canadians who can afford it do come across the border to get treatment in those areas where the Canadian system falls down. The UK’s NHS has its own relief valve, unlike Canada’s, they have a robust private sector in medicine that UK citizens can take advantage of in their own country.
In the case of Australia and New Zealand, I’ve been aware for years that they have become highly regulated societies, though when Australia set up isolation camps for the Covid positive, I was surprised how far away from the ideals of freedom they had strayed.
They are both island countries, but I think it’s helpful to look at who they are proximate to, countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Indoneisia, most of whom have a functionally free middle class (functionally free with no individual rights) though not necessarily a robust middle class. Australians visit and do business with those countries, and that has to affect how they think they should run their own country.
One of the top reasons their more authoritarian governments give to justify their policies is safety. And Trudeau, who has demonstrated that he would rather Canada be more like China, says that Canadians have a “right” to safety.
The Chinese are lowering their standard of living through Covid-zero policies based on this right to safety.
That’s a good starting point for conservatives when advancing our own idealogy. That there is no such right — that there can’t be such a right — and continue to be free. That some freedoms, which may indeed result in less safety, are still worth it.
If the Molson brewery is located there, I certainly hope so!
I hate pajama boy Prime Ministers . . .
“No boom TODAY. Boom TOMORROW.”