Western Standard - WATCH： Trudeau’s Act of War, opinion by Derek Fildebrandt

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his cabinet Sunday night to discuss invoking the

00:00:24.780 War Measures Act, renamed the Emergencies Act in 1988. According to reports from multiple media

00:00:30.920 outlets in Ottawa, Trudeau told his caucus on Monday that he now intends to do so. This would

00:00:37.100 put Canada under a state of martial law used only three times in Canada's history, the First World

00:00:42.200 War, the Second World War, and the FLQ terrorism crisis. The Emergencies, or War Measures Act,

00:00:48.900 is an extraordinarily authoritarian piece of legislation meant to combat violent enemies in an active state of war with Canada.

00:00:58.840 Trudeau is now expected to declare martial law over a peaceful protest in which the only violent acts committed to date

00:01:05.360 have been by police on government orders and pro-lockdown counter-protesters who back the power of the state.

00:01:13.120 The protesters and blockaders are breaking some noise bylaws and parking infractions

00:01:18.760 But 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.

00:01:30.680 Canada'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.

00:01:40.440 Reasonable people can disagree over whether the protesters' cause is right or not, and they can disagree over whether their tactics are sound or not.

00:01:48.760 But either way, it is a matter of arms-length civilian law enforcement agencies to handle,

00:01:54.800 not politicians, and certainly not the armed forces.

00:01:59.020 Ending the truckers' spring peacefully requires goodwill on both sides

00:02:02.460 and a willingness to de-escalate the situation.

00:02:05.960 A sign of this was seen over the weekend when truckers struck a deal with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson

00:02:10.400 to vacate the protesters from residential areas.

00:02:13.500 Watson is a well-known liberal partisan with little sympathy towards the truckers,

00:02:17.180 But he was smart enough to know that talk, not violence, is how we end this.

00:02:22.460 The state has abdicated its legitimacy in any violent approach to ending this.

00:02:26.700 When Occupy Wall Street protesters camped on public property for months on end, they were allowed to do so.

00:02:31.940 When Idle No More and anti-pipeline protesters blockaded rail lines and bridges, the police did nothing.

00:02:38.400 But when truckers and farmers do so, demanding only a return of their fundamental freedoms,

00:02:42.920 they are vilified by the government-funded media as racists and terrorists and agents of Russia.

00:02:49.760 Any claim by the government-funded media and the state that these protesters have no right to be

00:02:54.780 there is abrogated by their previous acceptance and even support for other causes doing just the

00:03:00.460 same thing. Instead of dealing with the Shruckers as peacefully and understandingly as leftist 0.99

00:03:07.340 protests that camped out in public spaces were, Trudeau has decided to declare martial law.

00:03:13.620 The Emergencies Act defines a national emergency as, quote, an urgent and critical situation

00:03:18.540 that seriously endangers the lives, health, and safety of Canadians and is of such proportions

00:03:23.940 or nature as to extend the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.

00:03:29.680 It grants the federal government power to take special temporary measures that may be appropriate,

00:03:35.040 not be appropriate in normal times to deal with an urgent and critical situation. Within seven

00:03:42.720 days, the federal government must receive a motion of confirmation from parliament. NDP leader Jagmeet

00:03:48.540 Singh has indicated that he is likely to give Trudeau the votes he needs to do this. The act

00:03:53.280 is intentionally vague. It has very few specific powers listed in it, leaving its decrease to the

00:04:00.360 Prime Minister's cabinet to make. We must caution ourselves against hyperbole in situations like

00:04:05.480 this, but it is difficult to understate the severity of Trudeau's actions here. The Prime

00:04:11.420 Minister of Canada has, for all intents and purposes, declared war against what he deems

00:04:18.160 to be a domestic enemy insurgency. How can and must we respond to this? In short, we must make

00:04:26.460 ourselves ungovernable. We must openly and brazenly defy the orders of the state at every

00:04:32.160 opportunity that does not involve violence, property damage, or harm to others. In other words,

00:04:38.500 civil disobedience. For our own part, the Western Standard has two missions right now. Firstly,

00:04:44.300 our news division will continue to report and do its job professionally, fairly, and as objectively

00:04:48.960 as possible, regardless of personal convictions. Secondly, the Western Standard, as one of the few

00:04:56.440 remaining free press institutions in Canada will take every opportunity to break unjust laws.

00:05:03.180 The decrees coming from Ottawa have not yet been published, but we will examine them when they are

00:05:08.200 and openly violate every single last one of them that does not do harm to others.

00:05:14.720 If there are limitations on what we can say or publish, we will say or publish that.

00:05:20.780 If it says we can't donate money to a cause, we will donate money to that cause.

00:05:24.920 if it says we can't have a reporter somewhere because the government doesn't want us there,

00:05:30.140 we will send a reporter there. We will break every single order under martial law that we

00:05:36.340 deem appropriate and just to break. Citizens should take to the streets and break every

00:05:42.200 unjust order under martial law so long as they continue to be peaceful. And the provinces must

00:05:47.440 assert their sovereignty, in particular Alberta and Saskatchewan, so long treated as second-class

00:05:53.180 colonies by the Capitol, must declare that the Emergencies or War Measures Act is null and void

00:05:59.540 within our territorial borders. They must order all police forces within our borders to cease any

00:06:05.060 cooperation whatsoever with federal authorities and make clear to military commanders that any

00:06:09.860 aggression from the armed forces will not be tolerated. Despite their own acts of authoritarianism

00:06:16.140 over the last two years, the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan have an opportunity to redeem

00:06:20.420 themselves right now by declaring our lands off limits to federal thuggery. Canadians, led by 0.95

00:06:26.500 Westerners, have started a global non-violent resistance movement against authoritarianism.

00:06:31.940 For Trudeau, the embarrassment that quiet, compliant, polite Canada can be the birthplace

00:06:37.360 of this movement is too much for him to bear. As power slips from his grip, he wants his own

00:06:42.900 just-watch-me moment to prove that he's as big a man as his father, and he's willing to use

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00:07:44.700 Thank you.

Western Standard - February 14, 2022

WATCH： Trudeau’s Act of War, opinion by Derek Fildebrandt

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