Canadians Warned The Government Can Confiscate Pets From Convoy Protesters

From now on, I'm calling the PM Snidely.

These assholes need to be in shackles before the country goes apeshit.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...d-in-canada-n2603466

The organizer of the Canadian trucker Freedom Convoy has been arrested. Authorities took Chris Barber into custody Thursday night.

"Barber, who is currently in police custody and is expected to face criminal charges, has been described as one of the key leaders of the protest in Ottawa, which has now hit the three-week mark,"

Seeing America's hat turn this tyrannical this fast is a bit disconcerting.

Trudeau Does Not Want To End The Protests Peacefully. He Wants Violence

https://thefederalist.com/2022...y-he-wants-violence/

Everything Justin Trudeau has done since the protests began has made a confrontation between protesters and police all but inevitable.

The only way to understand the actions of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the past two weeks is that he wants the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, which so far have been entirely peaceful, to descend into a violent confrontation between protesters and police.

Everything Trudeau has done, from his initial dismissive remarks about the protesters being a “small, fringe minority” with “unacceptable views,” to his ongoing refusal to meet with them, to the unprecedented invocation of the Emergencies Act this week, has served to escalate the situation in Ottawa and increase the likelihood that it ends in some kind of violence.

Consider the draconian measures Trudeau’s government is now pursuing. The protests, while certainly inconvenient and even onerous to the residents of Ottawa, are obviously not an existential threat to Canada. They are not even a national emergency according to the Emergencies Act’s own definition: an “urgent and critical situation” that “seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.”

No reasonable person thinks that’s what the protests in Ottawa are. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has said the federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act, and that invoking it “threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.” According to some recent polls, a not insignificant number of Canadians agree.

Yet Trudeau is bringing down the full force of the federal government to quash the Freedom Convoy. Under the Emergencies Act, protesters can have their bank accounts frozen, and so can people who simply donate to protesters. Crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers must cease all services to anyone they suspect might be participating in “illegal blockades,” and report it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Truckers can have their commercial and private drivers’ licenses revoked, and can lose their insurance and their vehicles.

Even more ominously, Canadian government officials are now warning parents who bring their children to “illegal assemblies,” or even provide food or fuel to protesters, that they could not only face jail time and steep fines, they could lose custody of their children. On Wednesday, the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa put out a statement urging parents at the demonstrations to make alternate care arrangements, “should they become unable to care for their children following potential police action.”

The threat here is obvious: if you protest, we’ll arrest you and take your children away. Trudeau has effectively weaponized Canada’s version of child protective services to suppress legitimate political dissent. What do you think is going to happen when the police start trying to remove children from their parents? If it were your child, what would you do?

All of this could come to a head in the coming days. Police in Ottawa have begun handing out notices to protesters that they must “leave the area now” or face arrest. According to some reports, if police want to clear the streets of Ottawa, they’re going to have to get it done in the next 48 hours, because thousands more protesters are expected to arrive in the Canadian capital this coming weekend in what could be the largest demonstration yet.

But it’s unclear how exactly the authorities are going to clear the trucks. Towing these semi-trailers is going to take heavy equipment, and so far local towing companies have refused government requests to tow the Freedom Convoy trucks. The military would be able to move them, and Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act enables the use of the military for such an operation. But that would create a disturbing spectacle at the least, and at worst provoke a confrontation that could turn violent.

If that happens, Trudeau will bear the blame. He has set up a situation where violence, or at least some kind of forcible crackdown by Canadian law enforcement against protesters, is becoming inevitable. Indeed, how else are we to understand Trudeau’s statement earlier this week that the protests, which have so far been totally peaceful, are in his judgment no longer “non-violent”?

At no point, even after drawing widespread criticism for his mishandling of the situation, has Trudeau shown any sign of compromise, or done anything to give the protesters an off-ramp. Even as provincial governments have eased or rescinded Covid mandates and restrictions in the face of sharply declining case numbers and hospitalizations, Trudeau is holding fast. As Eric Kaufman noted this week in the Telegraph, Trudeau’s hypocrisy in these matters is blatant:

Contrast his combative posture towards the truckers with his gentle approach to protesters who would seem to share his philosophy. When Left-wing arsonists burned some 30 Catholic churches over a false claim that mass graves had been discovered near a former residential school for indigenous Canadians, Trudeau called the violence ‘understandable’. When indigenous protesters and their allies blocked rail lines and pipelines over a longer period than the trucker convoy, Trudeau patiently called for ‘dialogue and mutual respect’.

The Canadian prime minister’s reactions to these events tell us that he condones actual political violence and disruptive blockades, as long he agrees with the people who are doing it. The truckers, though, have gotten neither dialogue nor respect from Trudeau and his administration. After all, to Trudeau they’re just a bunch of racists and misogynists with “unacceptable views.”

On Wednesday, he doubled down on the name-calling, responding to a conservative Jewish MP that Conservative Party members “stand with people who wave swastikas,” and “stand with people who wave the Confederate flag…” (For that quip, Trudeau earned a rebuke from the speaker of the House of Commons, who reminded him “to use words that are not inflammatory.”)

At this point, if you’re a protester in Canada, or someone who supports the protests, or even someone who thinks the protesters are wrong but the government has gone too far, the message from Trudeau is clear: We will not listen to you, we will not compromise with you, and if you don’t comply with our orders, we will ruin you.

That is a recipe for violence, and Trudeau knows it. He wants to make an example out of these truckers because deep down he is an illiberal man with an intolerant worldview.

These protesters have the wrong views, so they don’t deserve the “dialogue and mutual respect” afforded to left-wing protesters. For all his virtue-signaling about diversity, Trudeau doesn’t really believe in Canada as a pluralistic society where people of different views and ways of life can live together in peace. He believes in a society where the little people, the people with the wrong views, do as they’re told.

The thing is, most of these protesters have done just that. The vast majority of the truckers are vaccinated. They have complied with some of the most severe Covid mandates and restrictions in the western world for two years now. They did all that was asked of them, and when they finally got fed up with it they organized a peaceful protest.

And for that, Trudeau is trying to crush them.

How does he walk this all back in a month when COVID is over? How does the Mountie face his neighbor in a few weeks? How do the citizens for forced vaccinations have a cookout with their neighbors who are for freedom?

I thought we (US) were heading for dystopian novel territory, but right now I don't understand how Canadians hit rewind and start over. Shit is crazy there, and I thought we were nuts.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Seeing America's hat turn this tyrannical this fast is a bit disconcerting.

Maybe we are witnessing how the colonists of the 1700's felt? I can FULLY understand what led them to dump the tea in Boston Harbor...

The fact that he can turn his political enemies into terrorists with the stroke of a pen is absolutely frightening. It's the same thing the left is doing to the Jan. 6 protestors except on a country wide scale. I'm afraid this will be the normal response from the left going forward.

I am more worried about the budding communist dictatorship on our northern border than whether or not Russia will invade Ukraine half a world away.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
" A poor man aint got nothin to lose"

I believe I quote Para when I say, "The most dangerous man in the world is one that has nothing to lose."

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Originally posted by Ripley:
Canadians Warned The Government Can Confiscate Pets From Convoy Protesters

“Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.” -- Dr. Seuss

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
" A poor man aint got nothin to lose"

I believe I quote Para when I say, "The most dangerous man in the world is one that has nothing to lose."

The most dangerous thing in the world is a man with nothing to lose.

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Ah. Thank you...

Shapiro covers more in this video than Trudeau's asinine remarks. This is worth watching to the end.

I think this is going to ultimately end with Castro Jr being forced out or resigning as Prime Minister.

He’s way overplayed his hand.

“100 police checkpoints have been established” Bell said, and citizens are being questioned about the reason for their travel.

Additionally, within his current authority as the regional guard for government, he has been authorized to offer “safe passage” out of the area for any current protestor or dissident supporter.

However, if people do not exit the area within this current window of amnesty, the safety of the remaining citizens cannot be guaranteed as heavily armed tactical operations begin.

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I agree that violence is exactly what the leftist trash wants to occur. The newly appointed jackboot commander will do exactly as he has been instructed to do. Assault peaceful protestors with heavy handed tactics. At the first sign of armed resistance the military will be brought in to “quell the rebellion” and just like that, Canada has their own “Jan 6”.

The Canadian parliament can harrumph all it wants about their boy-king and his childish antics. Unless they act NOW to stop him there will be bloodshed.

Pajama Boy doesn’t want just violence, he wants to instill fear, and he’s going to do it, those truckers that aren’t accepting “safe passage” will be leaving in body bags. Trudeau is going full on dictator and once he starts he’s not stopping.

more detail about pets

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...n-govt-pets-n2603445

After announcing the drastic measures that will be taken against Freedom Convoy protesters, the Canadian government said Thursday that the demonstrators’ animals may be confiscated as well.

“Attention animal owners at demonstration: If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will [be] placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost,” the Ottawa By-law account tweeted. “After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.”

If a protester were arrested under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Emergencies Act, for example, and detained for more than eight days, the person’s animal would be taken. The same could be said for an individual who had their bank accounts frozen thanks to the government’s heavy-handed crackdown, and could not care for their animal.

What happens after the animal is “considered relinquished” is uncertain.

Sure, that's the ticket. Confiscate pets, freeze owner's bank accounts so they can't pay the bill for housing it, then euthanize these pets.

Anyone of any political stripe who is OK with this, is nothing but scum, and they deserve whatever is coming.

To call this infuriating doesn't even begin to cover it, guys. I'm sure you feel the same. Words fail me.

This is a grave mistake on the part of the Canadian totalitarian government. Of this, I have no doubt.

Loathsome, despicable, evil behavior.

Don't be surprised if children are next! Not euthanized, but you know, taken into 'state' custody...for their protection.

After all, we're talking about Insurrectionists, Domestic Terrorists, White Supremacists, and Nazis here...