Juno News - February 24, 2022
Trudeau admits fake emergency is over
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Summary
Just like that, the fake political emergency is over. Dustin Trudeau says the country is now safe, but will he ever recover? Candace Malan explains why the emergency is no longer an emergency and why the government is still holding on to your money.
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And just like that, the fake political emergency is over.
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Dustin Trudeau says the country is now safe, but will he ever recover?
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I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
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So I guess we can all breathe a sigh of relief because on Wednesday afternoon,
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Justin Trudeau came out and lo and behold, he said that there's no longer an emergency.
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So they have withdrawn and revoked the Emergency Act after voting on it just two days earlier,
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not even two full days, about 36 or 40 hours after it was voted on and passed in the House
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So Justin Trudeau came out Wednesday afternoon at 4.15 and said that after careful consideration,
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we are able to confirm the situation is no longer an emergency.
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Therefore, the federal government will be ending the use of the Emergency Act.
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And today, after careful consideration, we're ready to confirm that the situation is no longer
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Therefore, the federal government will be ending the use of the Emergencies Act.
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So you might be asking yourself what exactly changed between Monday evening when the House
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of Commons voted, recall that the entire Liberal caucus, the entire NDP caucus voted in favor
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of this, the Liberal government whipped their MPs.
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It was a confidence vote, meaning if they didn't get the votes that they needed, we would get
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So it was so important that they all voted in favor of this act, that there was some kind
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of pressing emergency, some kind of threat to our sovereignty, to our supply chains, our
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On Monday evening, we needed to pass this Emergencies Act.
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Even though the protests had already been cleared, even though the police had already marched
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through Ottawa and removed all the trucks, all the protesters, no borders were currently
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Nothing was going on on Monday night that warranted this.
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Somehow, less than two days later, with no change, no new intel, no police actions, nothing
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Of course, all of this just goes to suggest that there was no emergency in the first place.
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Justin Trudeau found himself in a bad situation that he himself created.
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By the time they showed up in Ottawa, he called them every name in the book, refused to engage,
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refused to meet with them, made the situation worse, angered his own base for neglecting to
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It made him look incredibly weak, incredibly standoffish.
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He went and disappeared to an undisclosed location.
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Remember that poll that was done by David Coletto over at Abacus?
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They found that of all the levels of government, both sides blamed Justin Trudeau the most.
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When it came to the people who support the convoy, all the various people to blame, whether
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it was the police, the local Ottawa City Council, the mayor, the Ontario government, or the feds,
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On the other side, people who oppose the convoy, same exact breakdown.
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He thought that using this emergency act to just finally clear out the protest would be
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Of course, by the time they voted on it, the protest was already cleared.
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The government also announced that they are going to continue with the completely egregious
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practice of stealing people's bank accounts, freezing their bank accounts, making them unbanked,
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basically removing them from the modern economy.
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So Chrystia Freeland speaking on Wednesday, she said this about bank accounts.
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She said, concerning bank accounts, the process of unfreezing these bank accounts has already
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As the RCMP notes, I just like to stress that there are bank accounts that will remain frozen,
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There will be other orders, court orders and others.
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And because of these orders, the bank accounts may still be frozen.
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So even though they've removed this draconian piece of legislation that allowed them to do
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all kinds of abuses and have all kinds of unprecedented power, the ability to freeze people's money,
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the probably the most terrifying aspect of this entire ordeal, they're just going to hold
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Well, the Trudeau government admitted that a $20 donation, a donation as little as $20
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to the Freedom Convoy may be enough to freeze your bank account.
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He writes this, banks across Canada have frozen Canadians accounts to the tune of nearly $8
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million after the Trudeau government ordered a crackdown on the Freedom Convoy's financial
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According to Blacklock's reporter, a Department of Finance said during a Commons Finance Committee
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meeting that even a $20 donation could lead to consequences.
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This is a quote from the assistant deputy finance minister.
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She said, it would be unlikely that someone who gave $20 three weeks ago or even $20 post
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February 15th would be captured by a freeze, but it's not impossible.
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So they're going to try their best not to freeze your bank account if you donated to the Freedom
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They say that government officials said earlier this week that about 206 bank accounts holding a
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total of $7.8 million were frozen using the emergency measures, most of which were identified
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as having ties to organizers of the protest or owners of vehicles used to block roads.
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Key word there, having ties to the protest and the owners of the vehicle.
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So not even necessarily the individuals who were at the protest or the individuals who owned
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trucks that were at the protest, just people who had ties to them.
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That sort of vague language should really send a chill down your spine.
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I should note that is more bank accounts than the U.S. federal government seized after 9-11.
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After 9-11, when they were trying to crack down on the terrorists that funded the hijacking
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of airplanes that flew into buildings and killed nearly 3,000 people, including Canadians,
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When a group of truckers roll into Canada, Canada seizes more bank accounts than the U.S.
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I'll continue to read from this Globe and Mail report.
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It says, Canada's banks have since unfrozen most accounts belonging to customers who were
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linked to illegal blockades, according to the Canadian Bankers Association.
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Dozens of people tied to the protests had access to financial services cut off last week
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under emergency powers and acted to pressure protesters to leave downtown Ottawa.
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Gotta love how the legacy media just slips in the government talking points here.
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Okay, I'll just note, yes, there were some illegal blockades that happened during the
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The blocking of the Ambassador Bridge, that was an illegal blockade.
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There were other blockades at international border crossings, at Canada-U.S. border crossings
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But calling the Ottawa protests an illegal blockade is government propaganda.
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It was a protest similar to every other protest that we see in Ottawa.
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A whole bunch of people going up on the lawn and part of Parliament, blocking up Wellington
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Street, people parking their cars there, people walking on the street.
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And every time the legacy media comes out and says that it was an illegal blockade and
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describe the Ottawa protests that way, the more that people don't trust legacy media,
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They're using his language to try to confuse you, to try to make you on the side of Trudeau
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and to tell you that there was something nefarious, something illegal about what the peaceful
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And I'm going to call it out every single time because it is maddening to see the use
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of propaganda in the legacy media promoting Justin Trudeau and promoting his language he
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We know that now because he revoked it 36 hours after he implemented it, even though nothing
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So after this thing was passed in the House of Commons on Monday night, it went to the
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The Senate was right in the middle of debating it when Justin Trudeau came out and revoked
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it, making the Senate debate sort of a moot point.
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However, I want to cover a little bit of what happened in the Senate because there were some
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very good, very articulate points raised by conservative senators who articulated it perfectly
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So I'm going to play you this clip from Senator Don Platt.
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He is the leader of the opposition in the Senate, explaining perfectly well why Justin Trudeau
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was completely wrong to enact this emergency act.
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We're now being asked to vote on a government motion.
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I agree with most of the legal and constitutional experts, most of the provinces, and most of
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the observers in Canada and in the rest of the world.
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This government, the Trudeau government, failed to make its case for the use of the Emergencies
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Furthermore, the measures it adopted are not reasonable, not proportionate, and not necessary.
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And finally, even if the declaration of emergency was warranted, and the measures satisfied,
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the criteria I just mentioned, the emergency, no longer exists.
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This is why, together with other reasons, I will explain why I will be voting against
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Not reasonable, not proportionate, and not necessary.
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Justin Trudeau should have never used this act in the first place.
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Denise Batters, who is now also with the Conservatives, recall that Erin O'Toole kicked her out of
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Well, now that Erin O'Toole is gone, she is back with the Conservative Caucus.
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And she also made a very, very passionate speech, reminding everybody that they were sitting
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in the chamber, in the Senate chamber, the exact place where the Charter of Rights and
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Here is Denise Batters making an excellent point in the Senate.
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It has not been lost on me, nor should it be on any of you, that this building, now the
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Senate of Canada building, where I deliver this speech today, is the very building where
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our Charter of Rights and Freedoms was negotiated.
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Think of that history, Honourable Senators, when you consider whether to allow this federal
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People on both sides of the political spectrum have expressed the view that the Trudeau government's
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invocation of the Emergencies Act in this situation is considerable government overreach.
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We need to assert ourselves, Honourable Senators, and reject this unprecedented authoritarian overreach
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Reject this unprecedented authoritarian overreach by the federal government.
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Well, lucky for the Trudeau government, he has the unwavering support of the legacy media.
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So the legacy media were quick to jump in and let everyone know, nothing to see here.
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Let's just sweep it under the rug and move on with our lives.
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So here is Andrew Coyne doing his best to try to justify what Justin Trudeau did, saying
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So here is his timeline, very distorted, and I will explain why.
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So Andrew Coyne says this, January 28th to February 14th, Ottawa paralyzed, police do nothing.
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February 18th to 20th, police move in, blockades clear.
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In sum, emergency declaration restores order, is lifted soon after, and then he mocks his
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Basically, Andrew Coyne just thinks that Justin Trudeau is hunky-dory.
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He handled this all perfectly well, nothing to see here, nothing was wrong.
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Well, there are a few problems with Andrew Coyne's timeline.
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I created my own timeline because Andrew Coyne just didn't get the facts right here.
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Okay, so yes, a convoy rolled into town on January 28th.
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It started a week earlier when they decided that they were going to do their slow roll
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Everyone started going to Ottawa, converging onto Ottawa to show their displeasure with the
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Trudeau government with the mean-spirited, heavy-handed vaccine mandates at a time when
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the vaccine mandates have been proven to be not effective at all.
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Look, everybody who's had Omicron has recovered.
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The vaccine mandate is unnecessary at this point.
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It was a noisy protest, correct, but it was also a peaceful protest and a legal protest.
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So saying that Ottawa was paralyzed is completely hyperbolic and untrue.
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There was a small part of Ottawa that was disturbed by this.
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The purpose of a protest is to be noisy, is to be disruptive, is to make people feel uncomfortable.
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In this case, make the elites who live in Ottawa, who make all the decisions, make them
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feel uncomfortable to know how uncomfortable they're making people feel with their heavy-handed
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Okay, so we agree that there was a protest in Ottawa January 28th.
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I would say it was a noisy protest and the police did their job.
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The job of the police is to keep the peace, to keep things calm.
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During that period of time, there was no violence.
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It was a very calm, albeit noisy, albeit disruptive protest.
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It's not the police's job to solve a political problem.
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It is not the police's job to make Trudeau's problems go away.
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Trudeau could have made a good-faith effort to try to negotiate in some way with the truckers
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Let's perhaps lift this mandate or let's make more exemptions for people who don't want
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He demonized an entire class of working people in a very divisive way.
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Andrew Coyne missed this point, which was that on February 13th, the day before the
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federal emergency was declared, the Ambassador Bridge was cleared.
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It happened on the Ambassador Bridge that connects Windsor to Detroit.
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The Ambassador Bridge was cleared using the existing laws on the books.
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So the next day after the Ambassador Bridge had already been cleared, Justin Trudeau comes
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in and declares an emergency, even though there was no current blockades at that time.
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Regardless, the journalists cheered and cheered for their hero.
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February 18th to 20th, Coyne says that police moved in and blockades were cleared.
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I clarified that a little bit to show what really went on, which was that the police
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Then on February 21st, after the protest was already gone, the Emergency Act was passed in
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And two days later, even though nothing changed, the Emergency Act was lifted and journalists
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are just pretending that there is nothing to see there.
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Mark Gerritsen, a liberal MP, likewise made the same point, basically, that nothing was
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He writes this, the Emergency Act exactly served its purpose.
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I mean, that whole, okay, well, that whole thing is wrong.
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Because by the time it was enacted and passed, the protest was already gone, okay?
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Proportionate to the threat, they used undue force, excessive force, against unarmed, peaceful
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protesters to clear them up because Trudeau simply didn't want them there.
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It was a political problem, not a threat, not a national security threat, regardless of
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I can't wait until the conservatives are in power and there is a big protest that rolls
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into town or there is a big foreign-funded environmental movement or protest and all
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of a sudden the conservatives start considering using some of these same tactics against the
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I wonder how they'll feel about their charter rights when, if and when, a conservative government
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ever seizes the bank accounts of political activists on the left.
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Well, Candace Bergen, who's the interim leader of the Conservative Party, came out with a pretty
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She wrote this, the Conservative Party knew it was wrong.
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He was wrong when he voted to continue it at 8 p.m. on Monday.
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He was wrong when he made it a confidence vote.
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Nothing has changed between Monday and today other than a flood of concerns from Canadian
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citizens, bad press, and international ridicule.
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It's a really good point because you wonder, so what did change?
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What was the main thing that changed between Monday night when they voted this thing in with
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a confidence vote and Wednesday afternoon when they lifted it?
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Public opinion polls came out, and again, it did not look good for Justin Trudeau.
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So an Ipsos poll came out on Thursday reflecting what had been happening in the week prior.
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And I'm sure PMO or Justin Trudeau's inner circle got their hands on this, or they had
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their own internal polling that was saying the exact same thing.
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But this global poll came out, and it's pretty devastating for Justin Trudeau.
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It shows that Trudeau gets a failing grade from Canadians.
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So I'm just going to read this piece because it's really interesting, not just to see the
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facts of the poll, but also how global news and the legacy media cover Justin Trudeau and
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It says, Trudeau's convoy response gets a failing grade, but even fewer support protesters'
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Even though Justin Trudeau is the leader of the country, it is his responsibility to keep
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peace, keep order, and keep the country united.
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Instead of just focusing on how he gets a failing grade, they had to add in, oh, but
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don't worry, he's still more popular than those working class truckers, as if that helps.
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It says, as the so-called freedom convoy comes to an end in Ottawa, they even put freedom
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It says, Canadians remain divided on how they feel about the protests.
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According to a new Ipsos poll published Thursday, Canadians' approval of Justin Trudeau's
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handling of the convoy blockade was only seven points higher than that of the protesters.
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The poll conducted exclusively for Global News showed that 43% of Canadians approved of
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the way Trudeau handled the three-week-long protests, while 36% supported the truckers.
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So the way that they're even painting this and showing this is like kind of trying to
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And in our parliamentary system, 43% approval rating isn't that bad.
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What they bury a little further down is that a staggering 52% of people said that Justin
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Trudeau's rhetoric and the way that he approached the situation made things worse and that he
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So rather than putting that side by side, 43% approved, 53% that he was to fault.
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They bury the 53% later on and they pit him against a lower support level for the truckers.
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And it says, in Ontario, where most of the protests actively was focused, 49% approved
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So Ford had a higher approval rating than Trudeau, even though they essentially took the same
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The only difference was that Justin Trudeau was far more divisive in his language.
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And I want to read you this paragraph because it really just shows you the mindset of the
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people who write the news and the people who conduct these polls.
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This is a quote, it says, what's particularly worrying is that 52% of the people that we
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interviewed said that the prime minister's divisive rhetoric and the way that he approached
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the protest was mostly responsible for what happened.
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Daryl Bricker, CEO of Ipsis Public Affairs told Trudeau.
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What's particularly worrying is that 52% of Canadians oppose Trudeau.
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Why would that be particularly worrying for anyone other than Justin Trudeau himself and
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Why would the head of a polling company say that it's particularly worrying that Canadians
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I mean, just the mindset of the way that they write the news and they put this stuff together
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Bricker said that the issue here is that even though authorities may not like it, data is
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showing that protesters have gained a certain amount of sympathy among the Canadian population.
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The poll also states a deep generational divide is evident with a majority of those 18 to 34,
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58%, and 35 to 54, 53%, sympathizing with the protesters compared to only 32% of them aged
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The fact that 18 to 34-year-olds, nearly 60%, nearly two-thirds of people in that younger
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age group sympathized with the convoy, not good news at all for Justin Trudeau.
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One other bit of news I want to cover here, which is, I mentioned this on the show the
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other day that Tamara Litch, one of the organizers and the one that started the GoFundMe campaign,
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a Métis woman, she was arrested during the police action over the weekend.
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What I didn't mention at the time, because it wasn't out yet, was that the person who
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was presiding over the case, the judge presiding over the case that denied Tamara Litch bail
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She was one of, she ran for Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party in the 2011 election.
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She lost and then Trudeau appointed her to the federal bench.
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This is, this is an insane conflict of interest.
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The fact that this judge hasn't recused herself from this case is insane because the appearance
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of political interference, political bias of undermining, again, of our judicial system
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and the rule of law is really, really, really, really bad.
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So this judge also made 71 donations to the Liberal Party between 2009 and 2014, ranging amounts
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And here is Justin Trudeau back in 2013, promoting her in a video saying that she is, has vision
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Here he is endorsing a judge who is now denying bail to one of these organizers.
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It's an extraordinary pleasure for me to tell you how much I have great admiration for Julie Bourgeois.
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Her vision, her authenticity, her strength is going to be an amazing asset, both of the
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people of Glengarry Prescott Russell, but also to everyone in the House of Commons after
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the next elections when I will have, hopefully, the honor of sitting beside her in the House.
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So this judge, Judge Bourgeois, she now says, I cannot be assured that if I release you into
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So she's held without the possibility of bail because supposedly she's a threat to public
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So the threat is over, according to Justin Trudeau.
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And yet a Métis woman who organized a GoFundMe campaign can't be released because she's a threat.
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Keep in mind that the deranged left-wing activists, Antifa activists who rammed his car into the
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protest, who hit four protesters with his car, that guy, yeah, that guy was released on bail.
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He assaulted people, injured people, tried to murder people.
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But when it comes to the organizer at an event who committed no violence, who committed
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no assault, who has been peaceful throughout, apparently she is a threat to public and can't
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Look, Justin Trudeau's abuses of power continue, even though the Emergency Act is over.
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He's admitted that it was all a political facade.
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Well, his abuses of power continue and Canadians are continuing to take note.
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Most have concluded that despite the media cheerleading, despite the spin and the propaganda
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being fed to you by the legacy media, that Justin Trudeau is the big loser of these blockades.
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He ignored the legitimate concerns of the working class.
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And he poured gasoline on the fire rather than being a leader and dealing with it.
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He hid out in an undisclosed location for weeks, waiting for someone else to solve his problem.
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Well, when all else failed, he staged an unprecedented power grab to squash a peaceful protest.
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No amount of media spin will make that go away.
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I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.