I just watched Noa Mendelsohn Aviv refer to the compromise of civil liberties like freedom of expression on CBC.
Not once have I seen occupiers be denied their right to peaceful protest and to express their opinions. But I’ve witnessed these occupiers torture Ottawa residents.
I’ve heard them make threats against a democratically elected government, attack journalists, flout Ontario mask restrictions causing an entire mall to shut down and put people out of work. I’ve witness horns honking day and night in an effort to torture residents and MPs.
Extortion of policy changes using torturous noise assaults is a criminal offence in Canada.
What about the civil liberties of Ottawans?
Do they count? Or is it just religious extremists & Q’Anon nuts who garner support for their civil liberty to perform a coup?
Peaceful protest and abusive extortionist coup attempts are two very different behaviours.
If Noa Mendelsohn Aviv can’t tell the difference, perhaps someone who is more familiar with Canadian civil rights legislation and actual human rights of all individuals could replace her.
Because I voted for this government and so did a lot of other people.
In fact the two parties supporting the invocation of the EA make up over 50% of the electorate. That’s called a majority. And in a democracy, the majority gets to make decisions.
Not tyrannical minorities who threaten to overthrow the government because they didn’t like the result of the most recent election.
Yes we have special consideration for pluralist special interests in Canada.
But domestic terrorists, backed by foreign subversives, funded by domestic and foreign money, threatening violence, unless their demands are met, are not recognized pluralities in Canada.
Replace the CCLA director. Acting on behalf of this mob is an affront to Canadian democracy. And may be a crime in itself.
Most Canadians can discern the difference between a siege and a protest. If your director can not. Get a new one or shut your doors.
Her rhetoric is beginning to sound very fifth column adjacent.
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Ok. So I’m trying to watch CPAC and HOC debate about the EA.
In between aneurysms I’m foaming at the mouth at the level of gaslighting going on.
I so want parliament to change the rules of discourse. Extreme gaslighting should NOT receive Parliamentary privilege.
So what’s driving me mental? The attempt by CPC and Bloc to legitimize the people who performed an occupation of Ottawa and the blockades of border trade routes as legitimate protesters.
I’ve had it with gaslighting and people who try to create alternate realities.
I’m insulted by the unscrupulous mendacity that CPC and Bloc MPs are offering up as commentary. This level of deceit is beyond acceptable, focussed on altering reality for the Canadian public and on legitimization of a fringe hostile mob seeking to effect a coup.
Liberalism is democracy. The Overton window Canada had from 1950-2000 was a narrow set of acceptable beliefs and values based on welfare state social liberalism and humanism.
Where conservatives were progressive and socialists were centre left.
It’s been abundantly and blatantly clear that this truck convoy was a sloppily veiled attempt at a coup d’état by a bunch of delusional Q’Anon & Dominionists who live in an alternate reality who hijacked a truckers protest.
While many of the participants and most organizers are known racists or support racist nationalist policies, this is not a specifically racist gathering.
It’s an attempt to overthrow the legitimately elected government and create economic and political chaos.
A large portion of rural residents and a significant number of urban residents have adopted this belief system and its values across Canada.
It’s called libertarianism: all restrictions should be removed & each individual makes their own choice based on personal responsibility.
This belief has been thoroughly adopted by The Liberty Coalition Canada among other organizations and ideologies. LCC has made removing Covid mandates one of its demands.
The vast majority of members are far right Christians.