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GPF on Biden's cancellation of the pipeline
« Reply #51 on: January 22, 2021, 03:10:53 PM »

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The Keystone XL pipeline project is no stranger to controversy. It has inspired protests and objections from environmentalists and indigenous groups for over a decade. The latest disagreement over the pipeline, however, occurred between the U.S. and Canadian governments. On Jan. 21, U.S. President Joe Biden canceled permits for the U.S. component of the pipeline, reversing his predecessor’s policy.

The cancellation revives political and economic tensions deeply embedded within Canada’s national fabric. Canada began as a confederation uniting several colonies scattered across North America. The country is diverse both socially and economically to this day, and underlying tensions between its east and west coasts are more and more coming out into the open, especially amid economic recovery efforts in the wake of the pandemic.

Keystone XL touches on Canada's east-west divide, characterized by different economic models, wealth concentration and historic settlement patterns. (Just last year, four lawmakers from Alberta threatened secession over the government’s failure to address concerns related to the national energy program and provincial economy.) Alberta’s premier, Jason Kenney, has already called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to enact some form of economic compensation – either in the form of payments to TC Energy, the Canadian firm behind the pipeline, and the provinces for losses incurred, or retaliation against the U.S. for backing out of the project. The debate over Canada’s response will be difficult and divisive.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #54 on: October 08, 2021, 04:27:12 PM »

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Trudeau ducks the Truckers
« Reply #59 on: January 30, 2022, 05:14:28 AM »
Justin Trudeau Ducks the Great Trucker Revolt
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
 January 28, 2022 Updated: January 28, 2022biggersmaller Print
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The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are in dispute) are part of a 50-mile-long convoy in Canada, headed to the capital city of Ottawa in protest against an egregious vaccine mandate imposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They will be joined upon arrival by vast numbers of protestors who are defying the restrictions, closures, and mandates of the last nearly two years.

The triple-vaccinated Trudeau, meanwhile, has decided that he has to go into deep hiding because he was exposed to Covid. A clean, ruling-class, fit, and fashionable lefty like him cannot be expected to face such a pathogen directly. As a member of the vanguard of the lockdown elite, he must never take risks (however small) and must keep himself safe. It is merely a matter of coincidence that he will be locked away in hiding as the truckers arrive together with hundreds of thousands of citizens who are fed up with being treated like lab rats.

Previously, Trudeau had said nearly two years ago that the truckers were heroes. On March 31, 2020, he tweeted: “While many of us are working from home, there are others who aren’t able to do that—like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can, please #ThankATrucker for everything they’re doing and help them however you can.”

It’s true. Like many “essential workers” in the United States, these truckers bravely faced the virus and many already gained natural immunity, which Canadian law does not recognize. Trudeau decided that they needed to be forced to get the vaccine anyway. Keep in mind: these are the people who get food to the stores, packages to homes, and all products that keep life moving. If they don’t drive, the people don’t eat. It’s that simple. Now Trudeau must deal with #FreedomConvoy2020.

Few events in modern times have revealed the vast chasm that exists between the ruled and rulers, especially as it pertains to class. For nearly two years, the professional class has experienced a completely different reality than the working class. In the United States, this only began to change once the highly vaccinated Zoom class got Covid anyway. Only then did we start seeing articles about how there is no shame in getting sick. It appears that in many countries, the working class that was forced into early confrontation with the virus are saying that they aren’t going to take it anymore (and many are playing that song to make the point).

It’s a massive workers’ strike but not the kind of communist dreams. This is a “working class” movement that stands squarely for freedom against all the impositions of the last two years, which were imposed by an overclass with almost no consultation from legislatures. Canada has had some of the worst, much to the shock of its citizens. The convoy is an enormous show of power concerning who really keeps the country running.

The convoy is being joined by truckers from all over the United States too, rising up in solidarity. This is easily the most meaningful and impactful protest to emerge in North America. It is being joined by as many as half a million Canadian citizens, who overwhelmingly support this protest, as one can observe from the cheers on the highway along the way. Indeed, it’s likely to break the record for the largest trucker convoy in history, as well as the most loved.

Trudeau, meanwhile, has dismissed the whole thing as a “small fringe” of extremists and says it means nothing to him and will change nothing. This is because, he says, these truckers hold “unacceptable views.”

This is setting up to be one of the most significant clashes in the world in the great battle between freedom and those governments have set out to crush it.

Meanwhile, I’m looking now for information on this in the mainstream media. It is almost nonexistent outside social media. Fox is covering some of it but that’s about it. The Epoch Times is a wonderful exception, as we’ve come to expect in recent months. It’s not being covered in any depth in Canadian papers and TV. All the usual subjects in the United States have completely ignored this mighty movement. It’s almost like these venues have created an alternate version of reality, one that denies the astonishing reality that anyone can see outside the window.

Yes, I know that we have all come to expect that the corporate media will not cover what actually matters, and much of what it does cover it does only with a strong bias toward narratives crafted by ruling elites. Even so, it seems to stretch credulity beyond any plausible extent for the major media to pretend that this isn’t happening. It is and it has massive implications for the present and the future.

This is not really or just about vaccine mandates. It’s about what they represent: government taking possession of our lives. If they can force you to get an injection in your arm over which you have doubts, all bets for freedom are off. There must be evidence that you complied. The phone app is next, which gets tied to your bank account and your job and your access to communications and your ability to pay your rent or mortgage. It means eventually 100 percent government control over the whole of life. The technology already exists. Everything going on now with these passports is driving to this point.

This is why the truckers are striking this way. It is an act of bravery but also of desperation. Once the tyranny of health passports arrives, there will be no escape. The window of opportunity to do something about this will have closed. So this is the moment. There might not be another one. Something needs to be done to fight for human rights and freedom, and put in place systems that make lockdowns and mandates impossible in the future.

This is the largest and latest example of the revolt and one that could make the biggest difference yet. But it is only one sign among many that the ruling elites in most countries have overplayed their hand. They have arrogantly imposed their plans for everyone else based on the opinions of only a few and without real consultation with experts with differences of opinion or with the people whose lives have been profoundly affected by the pandemic response.

In the US the revolt is taking many forms. There was the rally in D.C. this past weekend. It was impressive. Also the latest polls on political alliances show that the Democrats have lost a major part of their base. Virginia right now points to where this is headed. The party lost vast amounts of its political power in elections last year and now Republicans rule the state with great popularity.

Meanwhile, I’m looking at Biden’s latest poll numbers. I almost cannot believe my eyes. We are talking about an overall 14-point split between approve and disapprove. If this is an indication of what happens to the pro-lockdown political elite, it stands to reason that Trudeau should be worried.

In the Vietnam War, many Americans fled the draft by going to the safe haven on the northern border. That’s one way that Canada had earned its long reputation for being delightfully normal, peaceful, and mercifully boring. Pandemic policies in Canada changed that, with some of the longest-lasting stringencies in the world.

No one asked the workers. Now they are rising up. Nor does it matter that 90 percent of the Canadian public is vaccinated. Possessing that status alone does not mean that people no longer feel resentment for being forced to accept what they do not believe they needed and did not want in the first place. The vaccinated do not automatically give up their longing to be free and to have their human rights recognized.

The resistance to tyranny in our times is taking many unexpected forms. There will be many confrontations on the way, and there is still a very long way to go. At some point, and no one knows when or how, something has to give.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #60 on: January 31, 2022, 05:06:24 PM »
Canadian truckers are AWESOME!!!

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The Spirit of the Devil's Brigade
« Reply #69 on: February 08, 2022, 04:15:20 AM »
The Spirit of the Devil’s Brigade: Time for a New Can-Am Alliance in Defence of Liberty
William Brooks
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 February 7, 2022 Updated: February 7, 2022biggersmaller Print
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Much has been written about Canada’s trucker protests against vaccine mandates and other forms of government overreach imposed by authorities during the COVID pandemic.

Writing in The Epoch Times, former U.S. Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ron Paul said: “We Are All Canadian Truckers Now!” In fact, Canadian truckers have received high praise for their courage from various corners of the free world.

Over recent days it has been reported that an American version of the Canadian Freedom Convoy may be in the works. Speaking on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Brian Brase, one of the organizers of a proposed “Convoy to D.C. 2022,” said his group was motivated by the Canadian example and is planning a protest in support of their own “God-given rights” in the USA.

A Shared History of Valour
Many Americans have expressed surprise and even amusement that Canadians, who some regard as hopelessly deferential denizens of a liberal nanny state, would take dramatic action in defence of their freedom.

It should be noted, however, that grassroots Canucks and Yankees have a history of coming together in defence of liberty. When American General George C. Marshall visited London in the dark spring of 1942, the chief of the British Combined Operations Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, introduced him to a maverick strategist by the name of Geoffrey N. Pyke.

Pyke had a plan to train a special force that would be equipped to attack vital hydroelectric plants in Nazi-occupied Norway. Winston Churchill insisted it should be a combined force of Americans and Canadians.

When the Can-Am Special Service Force finally mustered at Fort William Henry Harrison, the commander was 35-year-old West Point graduate Lt. Col. Robert Tryon Frederick. His Canadian regimental commander was 34-year-old Lt. Col. Jack F.R. Akehurst, a former miner from Southern Ontario.

Canada had been in the war since 1939, so Canadian soldiers were drawn from standing regiments like the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. American recruits came from an assortment of lumberjacks, miners, trappers, farmers, game wardens, and other working-class occupations. Most of the men from both countries were hard-driving, blue-collar types, very much like the truckers who recently took their rigs to Ottawa.

The original plan for Norway fell through, but the 1st Special Service Force (SSF) went on to become one of the fiercest fighting units in World War II. First nicknamed “The Thugs,” “Freddy’s Freighters,” and “The North Americans,” the force finally became known by the German troops who faced it as the “Devil’s Brigade.” The SSF troops traversed from their original training camp in Montana to the Aleutian Islands, the Italian campaign, the Battle of Monte Cassino, Anzio, and the liberation of Rome.

Throughout it all, the Devil’s Brigade was reported to have captured the imagination of the entire Fifth Army, and to have won legendary acclaim on battlefields where heroism was the commonplace. Once, during the fight at Anzio, the brigade was ordered to take up a defensive position. One soldier’s sentiment summed up the entire brigade’s defiant attitude. “Defend? Hell,” he protested. “Let the goddamned Nazis do the defending!” Such is the posture of courageous men when the liberty of their nations is at stake.

A New Kind of Resistance
None of the Canadian truckers would suggest that their present actions rise to the level of sacrifice made by their forefathers on the battlefields of Europe. Nevertheless, they have displayed new levels of conviction and resistance that have been like a breath of fresh air for ordinary North Americans.

Members of the Freedom Convoy risk job loss, financial bankruptcy, possible arrest and even detention. We all saw the scenario that played out after the Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal Rally” in the USA. The appearance in Ottawa of a mysterious masked man carrying a Confederate flag who had to be called out by legitimate protestors should be a poignant reminder of the false flag tactics that woke activists are capable of.

PM Justin Trudeau could defuse the situation in Ottawa by opening a dialogue with the truckers. So far he has chosen not to do so. Instead, on Feb. 1, he painted the protesters as being antisemitic, Islamophobic, anti-black racists, and transphobic and called on MPs to unanimously condemn them.

Although the PM has said that military intervention is “not in the cards right now,” one can’t help suspecting he might relish a heroic 1970 moment like his late father’s, who in the wake of two FLQ kidnappings invoked the War Measures Act.

When a Parliament Hill reporter confronted Pierre Elliot Trudeau with the question, “What is it with all these men and guns around here?” and asked how far the prime minister will extend law and order, he answered, “Just watch me.” This response garnered the admiration of some 85 percent of Canadians for his “decisive” action.

Should the CBC’s constant demonization of the truckers continue apace, one can’t help thinking that something similar might be “in the cards.”

Need for a Can-Am Alliance in Defence of Liberty
With regard to the truckers and their supporters, the negative coverage by Canada’s regime media has been effectively challenged by U.S. conservative radio hosts and prime-time Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld.

It has been gratifying to watch American media outlets give freedom-loving Canadians more attention than they could ever expect from the present cultural establishment in their own country.

In a September 2021 Epoch Times column, I asked, “Can Truckers, Trumpers, and Radio Hosts Help Rescue America?” I argued that the progressive agenda put forward by the “crème de la crème” of a globalist intelligentsia is stealing the hopes and dreams of ordinary North Americans. “Sans frontières” prep school Marxists from both sides of the 49th parallel are always on guard to protect woke orthodoxy and put down dissidents.

Many children and grandchildren of World War II veterans didn’t feel compelled to attend university. They entered trades, started small businesses, or took promising positions in private industry and gradually rose through company ranks. Some of my own friends and family members made a decent living in the trucking business.

Since the late 1960s all of our institutions of learning and influence have become occupied by tyrannous domestic revolutionary movements reminiscent of those that the forgotten men of the Devil’s Brigade risked their lives to resist.

Ordinary Canadians and Americans want their jobs and businesses back and a fair share of their hard-earned dollars. They want their private lives back, the right to dissent returned, and the restoration of their dignity and the freedom to choose what medical precautions are best for themselves.

If common citizens, like truckers and others from both sides of the border, are willing to stand up for our liberty, we should, once again, endeavour to stand with them.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.




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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #73 on: February 10, 2022, 04:58:06 AM »
"Canada’s capital is jammed, its border crossings are blockaded, and there’s no end in sight"

of course the next logical question :


can we get a few million truckers to block Southern border routes inland
add boat owners ....

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #74 on: February 15, 2022, 11:31:07 AM »
Saw a seemingly credible whistleblower clip out of Canada asserting the Trudeau team is planning to plant a lot of guns on the truckers.

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Guns and butter. Meanwhile, Canada will send $6.1 million worth of lethal weapons to Ukraine and offer a loan worth 500 million Canadian dollars ($390 million), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. The loan follows a previous loan of CA$120 million. The U.S. also offered Kyiv loan guarantees of up to $1 billion to support economic reforms.

Emergency action. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the emergency powers act to counter blockades and protests related to the government’s pandemic restrictions. In addition to giving law enforcement more leeway to act, Ottawa is securing critical transport areas and restricting the operability of crowdfunding platforms until they register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada. The premiers of Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec expressed concern about invoking the act.


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Re: Good thing that can't happen here!
« Reply #76 on: February 16, 2022, 09:35:00 AM »
Not that I support him, but it won't happen here if Rand Paul is President, for example.  Elections matter.  Picking your own candidates matters.

Doug Ford was the conservative who won Ontario, that no conservatives will support again.  Ontario conservative is perhaps analogous to Arizona Republican, cf McCain, Flake, Day-O'Connor.

Getting it wrong is part of the process of getting it right.


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The standard
« Reply #77 on: February 16, 2022, 09:44:21 AM »

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The switch has been flipped
« Reply #78 on: February 16, 2022, 02:49:22 PM »
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397855.php

Good thing that can't happen here!


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Canada-US, Ben Shapiro on Tyranny in China
« Reply #80 on: February 17, 2022, 08:00:54 AM »
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2022/02/16/canada-goes-tyrannical-n2603351

Well written re-cap of the crime committed by government and the consequences.

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Trudeau stands up for the rights of peaceful protests - in India!
« Reply #81 on: February 17, 2022, 08:51:37 AM »
https://youtu.be/ssHNImTnxjs

Trudeau voices support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for more than a year in 2021, saying at the time: “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.”

Always?

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #82 on: February 17, 2022, 11:00:06 AM »
Who declares who is a terrorist

the Justice Dept.?

Biden?

Homeland security?

a bunch of shysters can declare who is a terrorist
and seize their lives

the problem is the Democratic Party has determined all opposition to them is to be somehow warped into Domestic Terrorism and it is up to the shysters to twist legal interpretation to authorize enforcement .

Good chance this is  how the Civil War will be conducted going forward.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #83 on: February 17, 2022, 11:05:59 AM »
of note the Patriot Act expired
and so far has not been renewed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

I have no idea who can declare someone a terrorist

We would all be terrorists if many Dems had their way
just because we oppose them.

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Omar defends truckers
« Reply #84 on: February 17, 2022, 01:26:11 PM »

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And they call us...
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It's time!
« Reply #89 on: February 17, 2022, 10:16:07 PM »

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Hard choices
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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #93 on: February 20, 2022, 12:15:23 AM »

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Lines are being drawn
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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #98 on: February 21, 2022, 11:26:16 AM »
"SO WE KNOW WHO DONATED TO THE CANADIAN TRUCKERS, BUT NOT WHO GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S CUSTOMERS WERE."

Just saying.    [Glenn Reynolds]