The truckers won.
Trudeau blinked.
Trudeau is an international disgrace. https://t.co/CVy7jgobbs
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 23, 2022
Unexpected turn of events to put it mildly. Why? Speculation: Things were looking dicey for approval in the Canadian Senate and the Canadian banks were screaming about how his freezing bank accounts was causing a run on the banks. All those MPs who just voted for this in the lower house of Parliament are left high and dry by this action, and leaves Trudeau politically a dead Premier walking. More to follow. Big win for The Freedom Convoy.
Yes, we just had dinner with a couple from Canada last night, and that’s just what they said. According to them, many Canadians didn’t approve of the protests, but were shocked by Trudeau’s actions. It was the banks that were really a big problem.
Viva Frei is live now about this
Hooray, prayers win!
The Canadian senate (like the UK House of Lords) is a reviewing body, appointed, and with members not subject to usual rules of parliamentary discipline. Trudeau can’t browbeat even the members of his own party like he can in the Commons. A rebuke would have repercussions.
They also got handed a “no, you can’t be criminally charged for actions enforcing the Emergency Act… but you can be sued” ruling from the Ottawa top legal thing, too.
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This is the first step of what can be turned into a win if the pressure is maintained. A win will require two things:
1.) The mandates are removed. Otherwise things are just back to where they were before the protests, and it’s at best a draw.
2.) They pay a price for invoking the act in the first place, whether that is through loss in elections, lawsuits, or whatever else.
As it stands the Canadian government has set a precedent that it can go after its citizens whenever it feels like without the need to justify itself, as long as it is “temporary.” It’s similar to how the US President can’t declare war, but effectively can engage in “temporary” wars through the War Powers Act. But as we’ve seen the notion of what “temporary” means has eroded through the years, as has the obligation of the president to eventually gain the approval of congress or even to inform them of what he is doing. The same thing will happen with the Canadian Emergency Powers Act, unless they get a firm loss.
Additionally, even without the emergency powers act there is now a cover for the government to put through other laws to restrict similar protests in the future. In particular expect a lot of restrictions on crowd funding, both in actual laws and in “voluntary” actions from the crowdfunding organizations themselves.
Again I want to stress that this is the first step towards a win, and as such is definitely better than if the act had not been revoked. But it’s only one step towards that win.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
Financial consequences are also a reason according to an article on Lucianne.com.
.https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/boom-trudeau-reversal-motive-surfaces-canadian-banking-association-was-approved-by-world-economic-forum-to-lead-the-digital-id-creation/
sorry Karl for duplicating your link…didn’t see it.
I seen the tenure of Canadian senators is until retirement and most of them are not members of party caucuses. North of 60% of the current Senate consists of Liberal Party patronage appointments; apparently a critical mass of Liberal Party pols are not down with Trudeau’s abusive projects when he cannot control their salary and when friends of theirs who working in banking are causing their phone to ring off the hook.
Morality matters, as it turns out. I know very little about the Canadians, and from here it looks like a solid third are good people who love their land, people, and what they thought was liberty. About 2/3 embrace an obvious tyrant and have zero regard for their fellow citizens or liberty. Not attractive. We welcome the 1/3 to the states if they can get here.
Also, I agree with you, Rudolph.