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Canadians have a right to protest. Canadians also have a right to the enjoyment of their property. The former does not override the latter, and the latter was severely infringed upon by the occupiers. These protests caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. There is a $300M lawsuit against the occupiers in Ottawa, similar ones will happen against the occupiers of the Ambassador bridge. The bank accounts…
This is full of factual errors, and garbage on the face of it. Canada is a rule-of-law, democratic society. The so-called protestors blocked off major ports of entry leading to material harm to businesses. They also violated the rights of individuals living within the downtown core (including my family) for weeks on end. They brought weapons with them, they built shanties and filled them with kerosene and propane. Th…
This is full of factual errors, and garbage on the face of it. Canada is a rule-of-law, democratic society. The so-called protestors blocked off major ports of entry leading to material harm to businesses. They also violated the rights of individuals living within the downtown core (including my family) for weeks on end. They brought weapons with them, they built shanties and filled them with kerosene and propane. Th…
There's voting in Democratic Republic of Korea too. It doesn't help if anyone speaking against the mass propaganda is silenced.
Wow that's a really interesting fact about North Korea that has absolutely and unequivocally nothing to do with Canada.
> It doesn't help if anyone speaking against the mass propaganda is silenced.
Except they're not. So. After all, I can hear you now, Comrade Phil. Consider than rather than being silenced, people may just not agree with these fringe positions?
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> Notably the Occupy movement, despite being equally frustrating for the local and national government as well as the civilian population, was allowed to go on for close to 2 years. Politically this is probably true, but ows never as far as I recall blocked main roads, and certainly not for extended periods. Whatever you think the legitimacy of that tactic is, it's not the same. And fwiw the ottowa police claimed tha…
This is not true. The occupy movement did block main roads. When they were doing their thing, my drive to work (and back) tripled. BLM did the same. Police need to be able to stop those who break the law, while simultaneously protecting those who are merely protesting. Even if they’re part of the same crowd.
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One idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands does not override the 99%. That's an absurd, lazy smear. What this episode makes clear is that many people actually love authoritarianism as long as the actions of the state in the moment appear to align with their own ideology. Next time it won't, which is why it must be resisted on a principled basis. This precedent being set is a dictator's dream come true and…
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Whether you love or hate the CIA, the CIA will project power this way, and probably already has. And there are a lot of people who hate the CIA.
But it wouldn't be that hard to expect to see black market arms deals be done over crypto. Or payment to terrorists (and their families) as well.
Canadians have a right to protest. Canadians also have a right to the enjoyment of their property. The former does not override the latter, and the latter was severely infringed upon by the occupiers. These protests caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. There is a $300M lawsuit against the occupiers in Ottawa, similar ones will happen against the occupiers of the Ambassador bridge. The bank accounts…
The PM is on the record admitting he is considering extending the Emergency Measures Act, potentially for months.
His Minister of Finance has already declared she now plans to make some of the financial controls permanent.
Whether or not you believe these measures to be appropriate, it is incorrect to claim they will expire in the next few days.
Question: "Hello from the CBC, the truckers could come back in 2 months, 3 months, so does that mean we would have to keep it for another 2, 3 months?"
Trudeau: "Indeed. This is something we are thinking about, of course."
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> One idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands does not override the 99%. That's an absurd, lazy smear. Do you feel the same about the BLM protests?
This is a really lazy whataboutism. Let's assume that both the blm protests and the convoy both had "a few idiots or provocateurs in a sea of tens of thousands." Now compare the media coverage and government handling of the two things, and compare how those idiots are portrayed compared to the tens of thousands. Do you see a difference? It seems to me that all blm-related events are generally considered peaceful prot…
Yes.
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