Justin Trudeau is now expected to declare martial law over a peaceful protest in which the only violent acts committed to date have been by police on government orders and pro-lockdown counter-protesters who back the power of the state. This would put Canada under a state of martial law used only 3 times in Canada s history: The First World War, the Second World War and the FLQ terrorism crisis.
00:00:00.000Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his cabinet Sunday night to discuss invoking the
00:00:24.780War Measures Act, renamed the Emergencies Act in 1988. According to reports from multiple media
00:00:30.920outlets in Ottawa, Trudeau told his caucus on Monday that he now intends to do so. This would
00:00:37.100put Canada under a state of martial law used only three times in Canada's history, the First World
00:00:42.200War, the Second World War, and the FLQ terrorism crisis. The Emergencies, or War Measures Act,
00:00:48.900is an extraordinarily authoritarian piece of legislation meant to combat violent enemies in an active state of war with Canada.
00:00:58.840Trudeau is now expected to declare martial law over a peaceful protest in which the only violent acts committed to date
00:01:05.360have been by police on government orders and pro-lockdown counter-protesters who back the power of the state.
00:01:13.120The protesters and blockaders are breaking some noise bylaws and parking infractions
00:01:18.760But they are correct in pointing out that the real lawbreakers here are the federal and provincial governments, which have violated the most fundamental law of Canada, the Constitution.
00:01:30.680Canada's ineffectual courts have proven that in any real dispute between the power of the state and the rights of the individual, they've got the government's back every time.
00:01:40.440Reasonable people can disagree over whether the protesters' cause is right or not, and they can disagree over whether their tactics are sound or not.
00:01:48.760But either way, it is a matter of arms-length civilian law enforcement agencies to handle,
00:01:54.800not politicians, and certainly not the armed forces.
00:01:59.020Ending the truckers' spring peacefully requires goodwill on both sides
00:02:02.460and a willingness to de-escalate the situation.
00:02:05.960A sign of this was seen over the weekend when truckers struck a deal with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson
00:02:10.400to vacate the protesters from residential areas.
00:02:13.500Watson is a well-known liberal partisan with little sympathy towards the truckers,
00:02:17.180But he was smart enough to know that talk, not violence, is how we end this.
00:02:22.460The state has abdicated its legitimacy in any violent approach to ending this.
00:02:26.700When Occupy Wall Street protesters camped on public property for months on end, they were allowed to do so.
00:02:31.940When Idle No More and anti-pipeline protesters blockaded rail lines and bridges, the police did nothing.
00:02:38.400But when truckers and farmers do so, demanding only a return of their fundamental freedoms,
00:02:42.920they are vilified by the government-funded media as racists and terrorists and agents of Russia.
00:02:49.760Any claim by the government-funded media and the state that these protesters have no right to be
00:02:54.780there is abrogated by their previous acceptance and even support for other causes doing just the
00:03:00.460same thing. Instead of dealing with the Shruckers as peacefully and understandingly as leftist0.99
00:03:07.340protests that camped out in public spaces were, Trudeau has decided to declare martial law.
00:03:13.620The Emergencies Act defines a national emergency as, quote, an urgent and critical situation
00:03:18.540that seriously endangers the lives, health, and safety of Canadians and is of such proportions
00:03:23.940or nature as to extend the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.
00:03:29.680It grants the federal government power to take special temporary measures that may be appropriate,
00:03:35.040not be appropriate in normal times to deal with an urgent and critical situation. Within seven
00:03:42.720days, the federal government must receive a motion of confirmation from parliament. NDP leader Jagmeet
00:03:48.540Singh has indicated that he is likely to give Trudeau the votes he needs to do this. The act
00:03:53.280is intentionally vague. It has very few specific powers listed in it, leaving its decrease to the
00:04:00.360Prime Minister's cabinet to make. We must caution ourselves against hyperbole in situations like
00:04:05.480this, but it is difficult to understate the severity of Trudeau's actions here. The Prime
00:04:11.420Minister of Canada has, for all intents and purposes, declared war against what he deems
00:04:18.160to be a domestic enemy insurgency. How can and must we respond to this? In short, we must make
00:04:26.460ourselves ungovernable. We must openly and brazenly defy the orders of the state at every
00:04:32.160opportunity that does not involve violence, property damage, or harm to others. In other words,
00:04:38.500civil disobedience. For our own part, the Western Standard has two missions right now. Firstly,
00:04:44.300our news division will continue to report and do its job professionally, fairly, and as objectively
00:04:48.960as possible, regardless of personal convictions. Secondly, the Western Standard, as one of the few
00:04:56.440remaining free press institutions in Canada will take every opportunity to break unjust laws.
00:05:03.180The decrees coming from Ottawa have not yet been published, but we will examine them when they are
00:05:08.200and openly violate every single last one of them that does not do harm to others.
00:05:14.720If there are limitations on what we can say or publish, we will say or publish that.
00:05:20.780If it says we can't donate money to a cause, we will donate money to that cause.
00:05:24.920if it says we can't have a reporter somewhere because the government doesn't want us there,
00:05:30.140we will send a reporter there. We will break every single order under martial law that we
00:05:36.340deem appropriate and just to break. Citizens should take to the streets and break every
00:05:42.200unjust order under martial law so long as they continue to be peaceful. And the provinces must
00:05:47.440assert their sovereignty, in particular Alberta and Saskatchewan, so long treated as second-class
00:05:53.180colonies by the Capitol, must declare that the Emergencies or War Measures Act is null and void
00:05:59.540within our territorial borders. They must order all police forces within our borders to cease any
00:06:05.060cooperation whatsoever with federal authorities and make clear to military commanders that any
00:06:09.860aggression from the armed forces will not be tolerated. Despite their own acts of authoritarianism
00:06:16.140over the last two years, the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan have an opportunity to redeem
00:06:20.420themselves right now by declaring our lands off limits to federal thuggery. Canadians, led by0.95
00:06:26.500Westerners, have started a global non-violent resistance movement against authoritarianism.
00:06:31.940For Trudeau, the embarrassment that quiet, compliant, polite Canada can be the birthplace
00:06:37.360of this movement is too much for him to bear. As power slips from his grip, he wants his own
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