Juno News - February 24, 2020Don't believe what Trudeau says -- politicians can give orders to the police
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Summary
Who's to blame for the rail line blockades across the country? The police, the provinces, the feds, the federal government, the unions, the media, and the opposition are all playing the blame game when it comes to the rail lines being blocked across our country.
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There are a whole lot of semantic games being played when it comes to how do we
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stop these blockades, this lawlessness that we're seeing overtake our country
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from coast to coast. Some of it is the blocking of intersections for a few
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hours at a time in cities across the country, some of it is the blockading of
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the Thousand Islands Parkway border crossing in Ontario, stopping not just
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national traffic but international traffic and then there are of course the
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rail lines. Now this is a situation that's really
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getting out of control because not only is it that the rail lines are being
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blockaded in a way that passenger trains and freight can't travel but
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we've heard from no less a source of Transport Minister Mark Garneau that some
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of these rail lines are believed to have been tampered with.
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This is the sort of thing that can cause derailments, the sort of thing that can
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cause deaths. It cannot go on any longer and yet we
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have this sort of cutesy game being played by politicians and commentators
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saying well who's responsible and and how exactly do you remove them and so
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forth. We've got Justin Trudeau saying well you
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know this is this is up to the provinces or other levels of government.
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We've got provincial governments that are passing the buck as well.
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I mean let's be honest here when it comes to the Ontario blockade there in
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Belleville well the OPP are most responsible and the OPP
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well they answer to the Solicitor General of Ontario Sylvia Jones she's a
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cabinet minister and Doug Ford's government. So Doug Ford should be
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saying and doing more but so far he has been silent on this issue. A whole
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bunch of people just passing the buck and that is not a good thing
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because this will only escalate they will feel emboldened to continue
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and we will begin to actually take Justin Trudeau at his word that
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healing sessions and positive dialogue or whatever other platitudes
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are actually what's at stake. It is not. The bottom line is that
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every single level of law enforcement has the right
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to go up to these people and say all right guys let's pack this up
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off you go from the very first minute it started until
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every successive minute that continued. Is it the RCMP? Yes they can do it. Is it
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the OPP? Yes they can do it. Is it the local police forces on the ground?
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Yes it is. Is it CN Rail Police? They actually have
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their own delegated policing service and they are allowed to remove anybody who
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is on or adjacent to the tracks if they see fit. And you know what?
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They do it routinely every week. They take people and say off the tracks you
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go and sometimes they take them away in handcuffs. They're tasked with it.
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They're legally allowed to do it. In fact they're legally obligated to do it.
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So we've heard from say conservative leadership candidate Aaron O'Toole who says
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he would pass some legislation to make rail lines critical infrastructure that you
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can't this that and the other and so forth. And I read and I go okay fine.
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I guess I'm supportive of that later on down the road. He's talking about when
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he's Prime Minister. It's also a little bit of a red herring. It may
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somewhat be helpful but you don't need any of that. We already have the ability
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and the law and power to say take these guys off the tracks ASAP.
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We're seeing a lack of leadership from politicians all around all across the
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board at all levels and yes across party lines because Justin Trudeau is
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not getting the RCMP to do it. Doug Ford is not getting the OPP to do it.
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And they hide behind this thing where they say oh we're not allowed to direct
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policing. We can't just call the cops and say go get this guy and go arrest that guy.
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Yes it's true they can't do that of course and I'm glad we don't live in a
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country where that's a thing that actually happens. In some countries
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obviously politicians do say go get my enemy go lock him up
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for no good reason but come on let's stop kidding ourselves here. That's not the issue here.
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Whether it's Doug Ford in Ontario, Justin Trudeau with the RCMP, you can pick up the phone
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and you can call your respective police agency, the RCMP Commissioner, the OPP Commissioner,
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and you can say hey guys what's going on in this situation? I mean is there not a law to be
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enforced? Why aren't you doing it? Because these police agencies do report to them. They report
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to Cabinet. They have people who oversee them. What you're saying that the police answer to nobody?
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In this country and I think what might happen when they actually have this conversation with police
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forces is some of the heads the policing will say yeah but what if we actually do go in and we take
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people out and then somebody gets a little hurt when it happens because you know they don't want to
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leave and they're going to be stubborn. Are you guys going to throw us under the bus? Because we have
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that all across the country. Police are not supported when they do enforce the law.
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So it would be incumbent on these politicians to tell law enforcement we've got your back and we
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actually do permit you to enforce the law and we are not going to make things difficult. We're not going
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to call a public inquiry into you guys. We're not going to ask for your heads and try and get you fired
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because you did your job. That's where we're at right now. Ladies and gentlemen a few days ago Extension
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rebellion activists they went to BC NDP Premier John Horgan's house and they knocked on his door and they
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said we're here to perform a citizen's arrest. They did not want him to be able to make his
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way to the BC legislature for the budget announcement. Hold on a second. Citizens arrest?
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No that's not what that was. That's an attempted kidnapping. Now three people have been arrested and
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charged as it should be but the fact that they are even musing this no matter how serious they were
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with this stunt an attempted kidnapping of a premier we have gone many steps too far in this. We've let it