🧵To a lawyer, the Emergencies Act Inquiry is fun to watch just to see counsel working with the witnesses using different styles.
But stepping back as a Canadian, one has to wonder what kind of dictatorship declares an emergency, kills no one, injures almost no one, revokes it …
days later, and then conducts a minute examination of it, in public and on television, with lawyers for every conceivably affected party allowed to cross-examine all the police leaders engaged in the operation from every conceivable angle, with gazillions of the authorities’ …
documentary records produced to all those lawyers in advance. (Not to speak of the Prime Minister and his cabinet members who invoked the emergency and will also testify.)
Meanwhile, war criminal Putin is bombarding Ukraine, China’s viciously persecuting minorities year after …
year, tinpot American governors are intimidating voters, mullahs are killing young women over a head dress, and swamp-dwelling “Canadians” have the gall to gabble on and on about “tyranny” at home?
Give your heads a shake, folks.
🍁🙄🍁
#cdnpoli #EmergenciesActInquiry

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pure and unadulterated Trudeau hatred.
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The milquetoast wannabe tough guy, Andrew Scheer, failed miserably…
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A *public order emergency* is defined as:
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In turn…
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