![]() Alternative payment processing systems are emerging. ![]() Meanwhile, perhaps and their attorneys, and other supporters can find creative ways to get financial support to truckers involved in the protest. I doubt their “Emergencies Act” can force people to work. Maybe sparse grocery shelves, factories shuttered for lack of parts, and even empty fueling stations will get the attention of Canada’s smug government. And make their demands specific and achievable. They should seriously consider going on strike, other than for hospitals and other carefully-selected essential services. ![]() It’s time for Canada’s Freedom Convoy to switch tactics. Canada’s Freedom Convoy is anything but militant, they’re not advocating for a separatist government, and no kidnappings have taken place. The last Prime Minister to invoke emergency power, under the War Measures Act, like this was Trudeau’s father, Pierre, to quell a militant separatist organization in Quebec that had kidnapped a Quebec official and a British diplomat. This apparently includes freezing the corporate accounts of protesting truckers and other ChiCom-style financial restrictions. Īnd now, Trudeau is invoking a previously unused Emergencies Act to, in effect, impose a form of martial law, end or restrict many civil liberties, and try to force protesting truckers to stand down. Biden sympathized, and urged Trudeau to take punitive action. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau complained to President Joe Biden about the US donations. refused to transmit some $10 million in donations to protesting Canadian truckers and was pressured to refund the money to hundreds of thousands of donors. Canada’s government has worked overtime to prevent some $9 million in donations, much of it from the US via, a Christian alternative to, which has since been hacked and cooperated with Canadian government demands not to distribute the money. The only known violence was committed by an Antifa activist against a trucker in Manitoba. Interestingly, many towing companies declined government requests to remove trucks, citing Covid. It has truly been a mostly peaceful protest, which has been joined by Canadian farmers and tractors. Canada’s government-subsidized media is parroting Trudeau’s propaganda that largely compares the protest to last year’s January 6th fiasco (a former Bank of Canada President, Mark Carney, called it “ sedition ”) and false reports of trucker violence and arrests. Worse, public opinion has not supported the truckers, nor Trudeau for that matter. And they’re not due for another election in several years. A quarter of our $6 billion in annual trade between Canada and the US traverses that privately owned bridge (a new bridge is being built by the Canadian government).Ĭanada’s “Freedom Convoy” is unlikely to find their “heroes” moment as DC’s tractorcade did in 1979. A few truckers shut down the Ambassador Bridge that connects Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan. They’ve occupied Ottawa for two weeks and held other protest in other Canadian cities. Farm country (and just about everyone else) responded by overwhelmingly voting for Ronald Reagan in 1980.Ĭanada’s truckers have arrived at their own climatic moment. Carter shortly thereafter resumed the foreclosures. President Jimmy Carter, who had fled town for Camp David early in the protest, returned to paused farm foreclosures, giving protesting farmers a small victory and a reason to return home for Spring planting.
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