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Originally posted by chellim1:
The government has specifically crafted the financial mechanisms so financial institution can use their discretion on who should be targeted. There are no structured rules for the banks to follow.

There's no government guidance so the banks are free to do what ever they want to who ever they want.

That's anarchy. It'd be funny if the banks went after the liberals.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
You think he's going to declare himself "dictator". You actually believe this?

No, he'll have his minions in Parliament do it.

Stop screwing around, please. Wild exaggerations don't help a single thing.

OK, understood.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Remarkable, Trudeau Government Use Emergency Act to Seize Bank Accounts of Protestors, You Cannot Protest Government and Maintain a Bank Account in Canada.

Wow!

I would never have expected this in Canada, of all places.

Emergency War Measures Act...So 'Castreau' just declared war on the citizens of Canada, anyone suspected of being a protester or supporting one, and anyone who disagrees with him!

And yet STILL refuses to meet with the Truckers, or have ANY discussion with ANYONE who disagrees with him....COWARD!

Canadian Truckers need to hold the line! Park the Trucks...Nationwide, Full Stop, Don't Move ANYTHING (Not even an inch!), General Strike! Bring the Trudeau Government and the Canadian economy to it's knees!

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
Emergency War Measures Act...So 'Castreau' just declared war on the citizen of Canada, anyone suspected of being a protester or supporting one, and anyone who disagrees with him!
And yet STILL refuses to meet with the Truckers, or have ANY discussion with ANYONE who disagrees with him....COWARD!

Canadian Truckers need to hold the line! Park the Trucks...Nationwide, Full Stop, Don't Move ANYTHING (Not even an inch!), General Strike! Bring the Trudeau Government and the Canadian economy to it's knees!

Gonna be a defining moment in history to see where our brothers to the north elect to go.

If a country that size on our border elects to go the way of Cuba (as it seems from my perspective), something’s gonna hit a fan - right between the eyes like a frozen biscuit.

I wonder if it’s just random and a coincidence that YouTube disabled the dislike button?

^^ Maybe their computers can only count so high?

Does anyone here know from Canadian law?

The, governors, I guess, of at least five provinces have said that they don't want the Emergency Act operational in their provinces, and Canadian law apparently allows them to make that decision.

Does that mean that truckers should be able to get banking services, insurance, etcetera through those provinces without being affected by the Emergency Act?

That happened several weeks ago.

Trudeau is risking causing a general strike by ALL truckers. I don't know how many truckers weren't involved in the protest and kept doing their jobs dutifully - probably 95% of them. But now you are going to destroy the livelihood and potentially lives of the protesters, and that isn't going to go over well.

I don't know if Canada has an equivalent of the Teamsters, but if they do, a general strike or sick-out and a stoppage of all trucks should be called. Try 1 day with no trucking. Then 2. Then 3. By day three grocery stores will be out of milk, bread, produce, and fresh meat. Gas stations will be out of gas. No one will get their packages from Amazon. People have no idea what 3 days of zero trucks will do to a country. And now, Trudeau needs to be shown. 3 days to stop the commie.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Does anyone here know from Canadian law?

The, governors, I guess, of at least five provinces have said that they don't want the Emergency Act operational in their provinces, and Canadian law apparently allows them to make that decision.

I don't know from Canadian law, but the impression I've had is their provinces enjoy greater autonomy than do U.S. states.

And that would be Premiers, not governors.

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Trudeau has painted himself into a corner. He can end this tomorrow and save further embarrassment.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
I wonder if it’s just random and a coincidence that YouTube disabled the dislike button?

There was significant discussion here of that when it occurred.

I somehow missed that. I’ve searched and can’t find it. What was the thread title?

YouTube still has a dislike button. It's not disabled.

What is the point if the counter is disabled? Sure you can still dislike things but there is no ability to see if something is unpopular or generally disliked anymore. You can see how they basically made it useless without outright deleting it right?

Check out the language in this article and what Turdeau wants to enforce under the ridiculous “emergency” powers he is trying to apply. He is threatening privately owned tow truck companies with fines and arrest for refusing to assist the government with protester vehicle removal. Unbelievable!

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2...canada-protests-news

The extraordinary move allows the police to seize trucks used in blockades. And the government will formally ban demonstrations in areas like border crossings, airports and Ottawa, the country’s capital.

The day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the rare step of declaring a national public order emergency aimed at stopping protests that have roiled Canada for weeks, many in the country were asking: Will it actually work?

Mr. Trudeau’s move to invoke the Emergencies Act on Monday was the first time a Canadian government has taken such action in half a century, and his most aggressive response since the crisis began.

The protests in the nation’s capital have snarled traffic, disrupted daily life and undermined the local economy. They have also multiplied across the country, including an almost weeklong blockade of a bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit that is vital to the supply chains of the global automobile industry.

The response by the police and all levels of government to the crisis has been widely criticized as inadequate, while Mr. Trudeau has come under fire for failing to be sufficiently decisive to end the turmoil. Some critics contend that he should have intervened earlier and perhaps even sent in the army.

The Emergencies Act confers enormous temporary powers to the federal government, allowing it to do what is necessary to restore public order, including banning public assemblies or restricting travel to and from specific areas. But Mr. Trudeau stressed repeatedly that the act would not be used to suspend fundamental rights.

Under the extraordinary measures invoked by Mr. Trudeau, the police will now be able to seize trucks and other vehicles being used in blockades. The measure will formally ban demonstrations that “go beyond lawful protest,” and the government will formally ban blockades in designated areas like border crossings, airports and the city of Ottawa.

Tow-truck operators, who have been reluctant to cooperate with the police, will now be compelled to work with law enforcement agencies to clear Ottawa’s streets and the border crossings at Coutts, Alberta, and Emerson, Manitoba. If they don’t cooperate, they could face arrest.

While the prime minister and the cabinet can invoke the act whenever they think the security of Canada is under threat, the decision must then be approved by Parliament within a week.

Mr. Trudeau said that the protests have been illegally obstructing neighborhoods and disturbing residents, while the blockades have harmed the economy. “This is not a peaceful protest,” he said. “We will not allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue.” He said invoking the act was a “last resort” and stressed that he was not limiting the rights of peaceful assembly or freedom of expression.

“The time to go home is now,” he added.

The decision to invoke the law came as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta said on Monday it had arrested 11 people and seized items including guns, body armor and ammunition. Police officials said in a statement that the people arrested were connected to a small group near a border crossing in Coutts, Alberta — which has been blockaded for days — and that the group was willing to use force against the police if any attempts were made to disrupt its blockade.

Mr. Trudeau’s extraordinary response brings back memories of October 1970 and a tumultuous period known as the October Crisis when Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau — Justin Trudeau’s father — quashed a wave of terrorism by a violent Quebec separatist group by invoking the War Measures Act, and then sending in troops to Montreal. It was the only time in Canadian history that the war act was applied in peacetime. The Emergencies Act was introduced in July 1988 to replace the war act.

Mr. Trudeau reiterated on Monday that he would not be using his authority under the declaration to deploy the military against the protesters.

While Mr. Trudeau has expanded his means to defuse the crisis, the most economically damaging part of the demonstrations appeared to have subsided on Monday. After protesters blockaded a critical economic link between the United States and Canada for nearly a week, traffic began making its way over the bridge again early Monday, providing some relief to the Canadian authorities struggling to tame the protests and to industries disrupted by the unrest.

But any sense of accomplishment by law enforcement at the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, was offset by the tenaciousness of protests in Ottawa, which are now in their third week.

The loosely organized “Freedom Convoy” demonstrations shaking Canada began as a protest against the mandatory vaccination of truck drivers crossing the U.S.-Canada border. But they have transformed into a battle cry against pandemic restrictions as a whole, and the leadership of Mr. Trudeau.

Let's see what this all does to the liberal voters mindset. I suspect it will have little effect.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
What is the point if the counter is disabled? Sure you can still dislike things but there is no ability to see if something is unpopular or generally disliked anymore. You can see how they basically made it useless without outright deleting it right?

There’s a Chrome Extension you can install that will show you the dislikes on YouTube videos.