I figured these blue-collar libertarians really were fighting for freedom: theirs and mine.
My last article from the front was entitled “The Descent to Tyranny Can Be Very Swift Indeed.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just invoked the draconian and authoritarian Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 – Valentine’s Day for irony’s sake – letting loose the police on a peaceful protest of truckers and like-minded supporters who just wanted to talk to Trudeau about dropping some of those silly Covid-19 mandates that seem not only archaic today but downright dictatorial and dangerous.
Trudeau reached for this never-before used piece of legislation that had replaced the War Measures Act to suppress the Freedom Convoy. It worked very effectively as part of Trudeau’s program to frighten, intimidate and punish his political opponents by using the police to brutally disperse the protesters, freeze the bank accounts of people who even supported the Freedom Convoy with a donation and even threaten to bring out Canadian Army tanks to replicate the totalitarian atmosphere of China’s Tiananmen Square.
It was not just a heavy-handed response to protest or a peevish reaction from a narcissistic prime minister; it was a stinging repudiation of basic democratic freedoms from Trudeau, who had done nothing but call these protest part of a “fringe element” made up of “misogynists and racists,” an epithet he had used to describe anyone who refused to get the Covid vaccines.
Trudeau always believed he got away with this profound indulgence in dictatorial government; that he could always convince his base and the Ottawa establishment that he acted in good faith to save Canada from chaos and insurrection.
But that establishment appears to be deserting Trudeau with the recent decision by Canada’s federal court that Trudeau went way beyond his Constitutional powers to invoke the Emergencies Act and actually broke the law.
Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was unjustified in invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy protest and that it was "unreasonable" to do so.
"I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation [of the Emergencies Act] does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness – justification, transparency and intelligibility – and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration," Mosley wrote.
This is the second time in three months that the federal court has issued a stinging rebuke of Trudeau and his policies. In November, the court said his government’s ban on single-use plastics was unconstitutional.”
These judgements, together or apart, represent a significant rift in Canada’s establishment that melds together the government, the bureaucracy, the courts, the military, the police and the foreign policy nabobs.
It’s like a moment of transformational thinking, where these controlling powers are suddenly seeing Trudeau for what he really is: a power-mad punk who is increasingly representing nothing resembling traditional Canadian values but the globalist agenda from the World Economic Forum, for which the prime minister is a well-known acolyte.
Trudeau has thus far said nothing about the court’s decision, but as his typical of this craven political figure, he has put Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland in front of the cameras to announce that the federal government will appeal the decision and that Trudeau and his henchmen and women will believe whatever they want to believe; will embrace whatever alternate reality that suits them.
"The public safety of Canadians was under threat, our national security, which includes our national economic security, was under threat," she said. "I was convinced at the time. It was the right thing to do. It was the necessary thing to do."
How nice. This from the woman went the extra mile to freeze Canadians’ bank accounts if they dare to support the Freedom Convoy with even so much as a $5 (CAD) donation. Then-Justice Minister David Lemetti was fine with that as he compared the Freedom Convoy to a terrorist organization and said it was his job to stop Canadians from advocating “pro-Trump” politics. He resigned as a Member of Parliament on Thursday but did not say whether the federal court’s rejection of the Emergencies Act had any effect on his decision..
You can’t make this up. But this is Trudeau’s Canada. And it could be crumbling like a meretricious edifice without any foundation.
So what does the court’s decision mean for all of those people who were harmed by Trudeau and his Emergencies Act? Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are still in the midst of a ridiculous trial where they stand accused of committing mischief and counseling others to commit mischief. These are usually the sort of charges that arise from a drunken wedding party but this charade of a legal proceeding began just after Labor Day in 2023 and is scheduled to resume in March. I have been there for most of it and was present when the hapless prosecution admitted that the Freedom Convoy protest was “not violent.”
So what are we here for?
When Justice Mosley made his decision on Tuesday, I contacted Freedom Convoy lawyer Eva Chipiuk, who famously grilled Trudeau during the Emergencies Act inquiry in November 2022 and caught the prime minister is a lie as he denied name-calling the protesters and specifically referring to them as “misogynists and racists.”
Chipiuk commented, "The truth has prevailed. The decision reinforces what we have said the entire time, there was no national emergency and therefore the invocation of the Emergencies Act was not justified. This decision also makes me ask the question I have been asking for the last two years, what part of the protest was illegal and when was it found to be illegal. I look forward to someone finally answering that question for the benefit of all Canadians."
It is a good question.
Another good question is how much longer Canadians will have to submit to the whims and dictates of a tyrannical politician who has proven himself as a failure at everything he has attempted as a prime minister; as a buffon on the world stage seeking bizarre photo ops; as an environmental extremist who is driving Canadians into poverty; as an oversee of a euthanasia program that has made Canada the suicide capital of the world.
Time is running out for Justin Trudeau.
