#Canadian Freedom Convoy

[babakca]

Ottawa June 023 -  Freedom Convoy !  Film Mission 

[allthecanadianpolitics]

An Edmonton constable who spoke at a "Freedom Convoy" rally, thanked protesters and posted a video suggesting vaccine mandates were "unlawful" and "unsafe" was sanctioned ten months of pay before being permitted to return to the job.

Edmonton Police Service Const. Elena Golysheva "acknowledged the inappropriateness of her actions" during a disciplinary hearing in June, according to documents CTV News Edmonton obtained through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

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[bare1ythere]

I try to keep my blog mostly for fun and hobbies but jesus christ. Watching the UK + USA slowly become more and more anti trans over the past few years is genuinely scaring the shit out of me. It felt like things were getting better in the mid 2010s but now US conservatives are so loudly anti-trans that it's only a matter of time before it leaks up into Canada too. What the fuck are you even supposed to do?

[canadianabroadvery]

"Freedom Convoy" my ass.

[plumplom]

Scrolling thru old dms with friends and found messages from the day parliament held the emergency hearing for the freedom convoy. It was just the liberals and conservatives shit talking each other while the MP for Ottawa Center was trying to hold their attention for more than .5 seconds to get something done for the people who live there and were getting thrashed.

Sometimes I just see these clownshows in politics and go like, yeah this is why our country is the way it is.

Not to mention the green party imploding every few years

[trashwaaveactual]

Oh fuck yeah, I would love to see some charges laid and fines issued to the politicians involved in their tyrranical decision making process but that may be asking too much.

Fuck Trudeau

@allthecanadianpolitics cry about it

[alpha-mag-media]

HR recruiter Tammy Sepetis’ viral TikTok rant about Canadian Freedom Convoy resurfaces as its leaders’ trial is paused | In Trend Today

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HR recruiter Tammy Sepetis’ viral TikTok rant about Canadian Freedom Convoy resurfaces as its leaders’ trial is paused | In Trend Today

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[kayla360]

Today in Ottawa for winter pride. A right wing extremist group better know for the population as the freedom Convoy. Came and protested the drag queen story time event. 3 people got arrested as last time I know 1 for throwing things at the counter protest. 1 for trespassing as he was « wondering » in the building it was hosted and the 3rd one I’m still not sure. The queer community gathered and made sure everyone was safe to participate in the event as walls were created to let in and out the kids and there parents.

[beardedmrbean]

In a classic example of better late than never, a Federal Court in Canada ruled on Tuesday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of The Emergencies Act in 2022, used to crush the largest and most peaceful protest in Canadian history, was "unreasonable," "unjustified," and "violated the fundamental freedoms" set out in Canada's constitution.

The case was brought to the court by a number of individual applicants as well as several Canadian civiil liberties groups, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. And in the decision, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley expressed what every trucker and other participant in the trucker's Freedom Convoy knew to be true: There was no justification for granting the government powers that amounted to near Marshall Law over a protest that was 100 percent peaceful, with no violence or property damage committed—that is, until the Emergencies Act was passed, and the police trampled grandmothers under horses, fired tear gas canisters at journalists within point blank range, beat protesters down and smashed the windows of the truckers rigs, and generally deployed the type of violence that the government had knowingly falsely accused the truckers of engaging in.

The government also froze the bank accounts of truckers, seized donated funds, and shut down of the economic lives of hundreds of Canadian citizens, a draconian measure which shocked the world.

Every protester and trucker who took part in the Convoy knew that the government and it's bought and paid for media were lying to the public about the Freedom Convoy, and though it feels good to once again be proven correct, that doesn't change what happened. It also doesn't change the division in Canadian society which took place under COVID, and it remains to be seen if this ruling will put an end to the ongoing punishments of various Freedom Convoy protesters which continue to this day.

For example, the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who emerged as public faces and leaders of the Ottawa portion of the Freedom Convoy, has now become the longest mischief trial in Canadian history. Finally getting underway in September of last year, the trial proceeded in fits and starts into December, and is set to resume in February.

Or take Guy Meisner, a trucker from Nova Scotia, was one of the first to be arrested and charged when the crackdown began after the Emergencies Act was invoked. He will be back in Ottawa near the end of February for the ninth time to face his "mischief" charges.

Then there is the case of Christine Decaire, a woman who protested in Ottawa and was charged by the police, who was acquitted last year; much like this ruling today, however, The Crown has decided to appeal her acquittal. To drag an innocent person back to court is the kind of grossly vindictive behavior on the part of the Trudeau Government that they have become well known for.

There are dozens of cases like this working their way through the system.

And then we have The Coutts Four, a group of men who were arrested in Alberta right before the Emergencies Act was invoked and have been kept in custody without bail nor trial ever since. Hopes are high that this ruling may help change their circumstances, but it has now been two years since they have seen their families, which is a grossly offensive situation, especially in a country where nearly everyone gets bail.

All of these cases point to a level of vindictive cruelty on the part of this government as constituted under Trudeau, who was only too happy to champion the fair treatment of someone who fought on the side of The Taliban in Afghanistan and was later apprehended by American forces. Champion the rights of his own peaceful citizens to a fair trial? Apparently that is beneath the Prime Minister.

Trudeau's deputy, Chrystia Freeland was behind the bank account freezing acting as Finance Minister, and she appeared almost immediately after the ruling to announce that her government would be appealing, claiming to "remind Canadians how serious the situation was." This though all the evidence and testimony presented in 2022 at the official inquest into the invocation of the Emergencies Act found that no threats existed, and everything the media said about the truckers was a fabrication.

Justin Trudeau has remarked in the past that Canada is a "post-national" state that has "no core identity," yet when that identity asserted itself to say enough is enough to the strictures of his punishing COVID Regime, he was only too happy to unleash the full power of his "post-national" state to attack these citizens whom he holds in utter contempt.

It appears that there is no ruling Trudeau will not appeal or lawfare he will not pursue to ensure punishment of the enemies of his party.

Justin Trudeau is not a leader, but merely a narcissistic tyrant. This week was only the latest evidence.

Gord Magill is a trucker, writer, and commentator, and can be found at www.autonomoustruckers.substack.com.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

[babakca]

Ottawa June 11 2023 - 500 Days - Truckers still in front of Parliament ! 

[allthecanadianpolitics]

As John Rustad plans to reevaluate candidates under an “improved vetting process,” a leaked list of Freedom Convoy donors appears to show the names of several candidates for the Conservative Party of British Columbia. BC Conservative candidates had been making headlines for controversial and conspiratorial statements in prior to this week’s announcement that the BC United Party would be folding and effectively merge with the BC Conservatives. In a statement, the BC Conservatives said that “as part of the agreement, the Conservative Party of BC has committed to review candidates base on an improved vetting process.” That could pose a problem for four BC Conservative candidates whose names appear on a list of Freedom Convoy donors that was part of a data leak connected to the convoy’s GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign.

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[canadianabroadvery]

[starseedpatriot]

🇨🇦 Breaking: Federal Court Declares Justin Castro’s Use of the Emergency Act Unconstitutional. 🇨🇦

The decision follows an application for judicial review launched by the Canadian Constitution Foundation, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and several other applicants in 2022 after the emergency measures were used to end the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.

The measures controversially allowed the government to freeze the bank accounts of protesters, conscript tow truck drivers, and arrest people for participating in assemblies the government deemed illegal.

The court declared that the decision to issue the Proclamation and associated Regulations and Order was unreasonable and beyond the scope of the Emergencies Act.

https://theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/EA-challenge-fed-court-reasons-FINAL.pdf

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[queerbauten]

I found what appears the only footage of the, “Leave us alone, Hamas,” chanting hindahoney & vaspider (& others) were posting about.

A few quick notes:

- the footage is interspersed with other footage—the initial context is removed

- so-called “Western media watchdogs” have a history of bias in translating SWANA media (especially with regards to Palestine)—and all of these uploads seem to come from Western sources

- none of the footage has anyone pleading for Israel’s protection

- in fact, the clip implicitly condemns Hamas for not doing enough to protect Gaza from Israel

- wow, I can’t believe people would criticize a governing body [/s]

- imagine if people took footage from the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, interspersed it with other footage, and then chose to say it represented all Canadians (not even just all Ottawans—all Canadians) in order to justify a military invasion by the U.S.

- that’s what you ethnonationalists sound like

(and that’s all operating on the assumption that the footage is genuine—we know Israel has falsified “evidence” before)