Canadian Politics
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Ottawa mayor and police, and RCMP (Mounties) in Alberta, have been refused service by every tow-truck company to haul away the big rigs.
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Leader of the opposition Conservative Party was made to walk the plank this morning by his own MPs, and the vote wasn’t even close. Three days ago the idea was dismissed as unrealistic. That’s how fast things are moving right how. Trudeau is still in hiding. This afternoon a huge circle of people was dancing on Parliament Hill to “We Are the World.” Is Prime Minister Blackface prepared to call in the military?
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@kid-chocolate said in Canadian Politics:
Leader of the opposition Conservative Party was made to walk the plank this morning by his own MPs, and the vote wasn’t even close. Three days ago the idea was dismissed as unrealistic. That’s how fast things are moving right how. Trudeau is still in hiding. This afternoon a huge circle of people was dancing on Parliament Hill to “We Are the World.” Is Prime Minister Blackface prepared to call in the military?
Why for?
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They look like they're having fun.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskThe_Donald/comments/sgnxoc/meanwhile_in_truckistan/
The residents maybe not so much.
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Too moderate. Not a fighter. If he’d resisted Trudeau’s overreach, there wouldn’t have been a massive convoy driving 3,000 miles to choke the nation’s capital. I think the rally crystallized his failure, but really the straw that broke camel’s back. PM and CBC/media want to portray the truckers as Insurrection North, but public isn’t buying it, and O’toole too much of a wuss to push back and defend them. National opinion has swung 15% against mandates since truckers invaded Ottawa.
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Rex Murphy: A Canadian insurrection? It is to laugh
Is it really that hard for politicians to acknowledge that the majority of people who went all the way to Ottawa are just decent folks?
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I’ve seen more threatening picnics thrown by a few nuns.
Yet if you listened to much of the established press predictions, Ottawa over the weekend was supposed to be like Rome waiting for the Visigoths. Ooooh — the end of cottage government as we’ve come to know it. A full-scale assault on our Zoom Parliament.
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The sentence which jumps out is:
That these protesters may be as at least as fair-minded and decent as the politicians who govern them.
The irony.
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Farmers are moving tractors into downtown Toronto.
Protests are increasing into more Canadian cities this weekend. Forecast for Toronto and Ottawa tonight and tomorrow is minus-30 degrees Celsius. Godlove’em.
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GoFundMe has confiscated the $10 million dollars raised for the convoy and they’re not going to refund the money to donors. They’re instead going to distribute it to organizations that THEY believe are worthy. I hope there’s a class-action lawsuit filed against them. This is fraud.
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@kid-chocolate
This article says donors have until Feb 19 to get a refund
"GoFundMe says donors also have until Feb. 19 to request a refund online"
Surely they are not gong to just take the money?
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@frank Yes, just read they are now providing refunds. Good thing! But really, it should be an automatic refund. The donor shouldn’t have to apply to get their donations returned, that’s bs.
I hope an alternate site becomes available and donations double.
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GoFundMe is a fraudulent organisation, I don't know why people keep using them
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I spent an hour scrolling through #freedomconvoy2022 hashtag on twitter today and protests are increasing in size and number, there were massive crowds in every Canadian city today, more globally. Rumoured leaks that Trudeau is catatonic, has no idea what to do. They’ve got multiple bouncy castles set up in front of Parliament Hill for the kids, and the whole thing looks like a winter carnival in minus twenty cold, young people are out in droves, and cops and military are telling PM they don’t want to intervene. It’s a full-on populist revolt.
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Hot tubs and saunas.
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@kid-chocolate boomer complains about people having fun.
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China state-affiliated media hits a bullseye.
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Really fascinating analyses/predictions from Ezra Levant (yes, pro-trucker altrightist admittedly) who thinks Trudeau is going to fold, bc the trucker rebellion is a virus that is spilling over into the United States. He reckons the trucker are forcing Biden’s hand and he’s in-turn going to force Trudeau’s. Huge stakes. Well worth the read.