Why is Trudeau ending the no-fly list for his unvaccinated enemies?
1. In February, the trucker convoy broke the false consciousness that an endless lockdown was accepted by all Canadians. The political parties, the media, the courts & businesses had perpetrated that falsehood.
2. That didn't dissuade Trudeau -- in fact, it made him more vengeful. But it showed Canadians they weren't alone if they disagreed with Trudeau's civil liberties bonfire. And the truckers removed Erin O'Toole, Trudeau's Conservative lockdown collaborator.
3. But still, Trudeau persisted. As every other country abandoned lockdowns, Canada went rogue. And why not? Jagmeet Singh gave Trudeau an effective majority; and 99% of journalists were on the take with his bail-out. No judge stopped him. Really, why would Trudeau relent?
4. WestJet's new CEO -- a foreigner unfamiliar with the submissive obedience of our corporate class -- called for the end of mandates. His cowardly counterpart at Air Canada knew better than to challenge Trudeau. Every CEO was silent. And if they weren't, who cares? Not Trudeau.
5. But just as the truckers were an unexpected saviour, so was an American hockey player turned journalist, Ryan Whitney. He was trapped in Toronto's airport for a full day, and made a viral video about it -- more than 2 million views:
6. Like all insecure Canadians, Trudeau cares more about what foreigners think than what we think. Especially someone cool like a former pro hockey player, now a viral journalist. That video tipped the scales. And the bumbling transport minister @OmarAlghabra just made it worse.
7. But the acute reason the mandates are being dropped TOMORROW is that Trudeau just violated the law himself. He was in the U.S. again, on another vacation, and he came back with Covid.
Hang on -- that's illegal. You can't enter Canada if you have Covid. Trudeau just did.
8. He's broken the laws before -- when he came back, from another jaunt last year, he left quarantine when he got bored. Again, illegal for you or me. But he's above the law: globalnews.ca/news/7954280/j…
9. Trudeau violating quarantine was winked at by the Media Party back then. But there is so much anger and irritation at the absurd no-fly list in June of 2022, combined with the airport meltdowns, that Trudeau's advisers guess that his law-breaking probably wouldn't slide now.
10. That's why tomorrow we'll be free. Not because of the Conservatives, who supported the no-fly list and other vaccine segregation until five minutes ago. Not because of the courts, that have never said no to Trudeau. Not because of the media, that called for harsher lockdowns.
11. If we're indeed freed tomorrow, it's because the truckers broke the trance that Canadians were in, where the establishment had convinced millions of us that resistance was futile. And because of an American sports journalist, who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes.
12. And the safest bet of all: Trudeau's own corruption and lawlessness.
That he crossed the border into Canada while infectious. That he will (of course) not be quarantined. That he flies sick, without a mask.
His own arrogance ensured that his discrimination was untenable.
13. The constitutional challenge to the no-fly list by Brian Peckford and @JCCFCanada will continue. But why didn't the @SCC_eng fast-track a constitutional challenge? The Supremes have not heard a single lockdown case in two years. So much for the Charter -- what a lie.
14. The Liberal pollster @abacusdataca laments the loss of trust in institutions. They blame conspiracy theories. But the government, opposition, courts, media, NGOs, medical profession, academics -- they were all colluding against our rights. It actually was an open conspiracy.
15. Not one of those institutions freed us. The Globe and Mail did not write editorial after editorial demanding an end to the junk-science ban on air travel. The Toronto Star didn't stand up for civil liberties. None of them gave a damn -- and they denounced those who did.
16. Never forget those who abandoned you -- and abandoned Canadian values like freedom and privacy. Never forget them, as they gaslight you now, pretending they were on your side the whole time. It was the truckers and @ryanwhitney6 who freed us.
17. Last tweet: did @OmarAlghabra even know the news? Did Trudeau even tell him -- or did he read about it just now, like we did? Here's our @wdiazberthiaume asking him about it just an hour ago. Alghabra seems clueless and arrogant, just like his boss:
18. I'd add this video to the list of reasons. This is the clearest condemnation of the airport meltdown ever put -- and it's gone viral. This was doing real political damage to Trudeau, and they wanted to take away an issue from Polievre:
I have covered a dozen or more trials in the UK and my coverage has cumulatively been seen by tens of millions of people — 8.5 million yesterday alone.
My live-tweeting style gives much more information than traditional reporting in the form of one single essay at the end of the day. In fact, I can see the regime journalists constantly checking my X feed.
That’s what makes the BBC so mad — I get more views than them, but more to the point, I don’t share their political perspective.
The regime media are like an old guild, trying to keep out competitors — either commercial competitors or ideological competitors.
I think this is about modernizing the courts; it’s about access to justice and transparency. I know the media cartel doesn’t want that, but the judge should.
One more word about “quality” — misinformation, disinformation, errors.
Independent media is much more nimble in dealing with corrections — especially X’s @CommunityNotes. Unlike regime media, which gets to veto letters to the editor they don’t like. Earlier today I posted a completely false headline by @SkyNews, which will never be corrected, because it’s hostile to @TRobinsonNewEra, so it’s the “good” kind of error.
My tweets are sometimes spicy, but no more so than the malicious defamation of Tommy by the regime media, who never write about him without saying “EDL founder” or some personal or classist sneer.
Class is certainly part of this. The prestige media are in the courtroom itself. The citizen journalists are in a holding room, behind shatter-proof glass, where it’s almost impossible to hear the proceedings. Know your place!
I say prestige media with a wink — they certainly think they’re prestigious. But not a one of them works for a successful company — they’re either owned by oligarchs or bailed out by the taxpayer, or both. They’re heroes in their own mind, but the world — and the Internet — has moved on and forgotten them, long ago.
I hope the court chooses the future, even with its risks and chaos, over the stale, insular, narcissistic media establishment. We’ll see what the judge tells me shortly.
Quick update. The judge spoke with me about my credentials, which had been questioned by the BBC. I presented my credentials from Canada's @IndependentPG and the judge accepted them as on par with British journalistic credentials.
So I am now seated with the regime journalists.
@IndependentPG The judge also warned me about using florid language to describe some of the "officers of the court". He said that if I'm too rambunctious, he could rescind my credentials. I told the judge that I would comply.
BREAKING: I’m in Ottawa with @ThevoiceAlexa @guillaum3roy and our beautiful billboard truck. We’re covering the sentencing hearing of Tamara Lich & Chris Barber for leading the peaceful trucker convoy. It’s a political vendetta more than a prosecution.
I'm outside courtroom 5 in the Ottawa courthouse. The judge is inside, hearing another matter. There are more than 50 people waiting at the door to go in for the sentencing hearing. As usual, the course of justice is slow and punitive. Which seems to be the whole point of it.
Tamara Lich has been through the longest mischief trial only in Canadian history, and (as far as I can tell) the longest in the history of the Commonwealth. That's deliberate. The prosecutors don't have anything to "get" her with. So they turned the process into the punishment.
12 hours after leaving Toronto, I have arrived at the UK court of appeal. Tommy Robinson is appealing his prison sentence for contempt of court. I’ll live-tweet the proceedings and post videos. To see my work and help crowdfund my journey, please visit . TommyReports.com
I am now inside Courtroom 4 at the Royal Courts of Justice, which is the court of appeal. It's a fairly large courtroom. There are about 20 people in the public gallery. There are also nine people (including myself) in the seats reserved for the press.
I see a large screen with views of the judges' seats, and the lawyers' benches. I presume that is the video feed that Tommy Robinson will see from prison. Tommy himself is not visible yet.
I can understand Trump’s disdain for Trudeau — most Canadians share that view. But there are better ways to shoot at Trudeau without hitting Canadians, particularly Canadians who love the U.S.
Canada — really Alberta, the Texas of Canada — has 170+ billion barrels of oil. No need to spend $50B/year patrolling the Persian gulf to protect Saudi tankers — it’s right here. Alberta has proposed doubling production. That would completely displace U.S. imports of OPEC oil.
He’s like Grant Bristow, the leader of the racist Heritage Front who was really a CSIS agent.
Diagolon’s purpose is to discredit conservatives, give fodder to the media and provide an excuse to censors.
It’s funny & pitiful to see him blame the Jews for a fraud alert in his banking. No bank in Canada has a Jewish CEO; all are widely held in the stock market. I bet he blames the Jews when he hits his thumb with a hammer.
This isn’t authentic. No-one is this stupid. It’s an op.
I should disclose that this bigoted fed is actually suing me for calling him a bigoted fed. That’s obviously part of the op, too. Everyone calls him racist; he is. But he’s only suing Rebel News. Like I say: he’s a fed.