Pierre Poilievre exploited the “FREEDUMB CONVOY” occupation of Ottawa to build his brand.
Opportunistic exploitation of the Canadian public’s frustration is not a valid excuse for inciting and openly supporting lawlessness & anarchism. Which is what Poilievre and CPC did.
Pierre Poilievre is toxic. He willingly chose to attach his political party leadership campaign & his higher ambitions to become Prime Minister of Canada to an illegal occupation. He capitalized on the frustration of people suffering from almost 2 years of pandemic restrictions.
But we must thank Poilievre for exposing the true nature of the CPC underbelly. It is NOT conservative. It’s a toxic form of far right LIBERTARIANISM. Anarchy is not freedom. Lawlessness is not liberty.
Regardless of what Poilievre promotes.
While the POEC report reveals there was no coordinated leadership within the protesters who descended upon Ottawa, the report made it clear that Ontario’s provincial govt and local & provincial law enforcement’s abandonment of rule of law contributed to the chaos.
What kind of a leader encourages and capitalizes upon descent into anarchy created by a mob of angry, fearful and misinformed people to build support for his bid for leadership?
The answer is Poilievre.
What kind of political party undermines the duly elected federal government chosen by the electorate only months before? That would be Conservative Party of Canada.
After subverting their own leader, they had no issue with subverting the Canadian electorate’s democratic choice.
Who removes dissent from the public square that has become Twitter?
The public has become dependent upon Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other media to collectively gather and exchange ideas and opinions.
How many people have recently been silenced on Twitter?
It’s ironic that most people believe Canada to be laid back, peaceful and democratic when it produces people like Poilievre, Harper, Manning and Musk.
There are still some dark corners in Canada that require sunshine ☀️ to cleanse the corruption. The POEC report is a beginning.
Canadians must choose between democracy or chaos dominated by right libertarian demagogues.
Sure, LPC needs to shape up and quit making ethical mishaps.
God forbid people interpret the carelessness caused by haste and the threat of anarchy brought by CPC to vote for CPC.
Women of Canada need to speak up now. The grift has been exposed.
CPC and their provincial counterparts are a conglomerate of far right SoCon libertarians seeking an end to Canadian federalism. Why?
The Canadian Constitution and Charter protect KEY human rights & freedoms.
The right to express opinions freely is KEY to freedom and liberty.
While convoy participants claim their rights were violated, a respected and learned judge revealed today that was not accurate. Regardless of what politicians, mainstream media & con pundits repeatedly claimed.
But now corporate executives have installed themselves as the arbiters of free speech and expression and removed effective dissenters to far right propaganda.
It’s a ploy to get Canadians confused.
Suspending left activists is meant to build concern about Bill C-11.
That’s how these manipulative saboteurs and provocateurs work.
T.O. and IsisWise were strategic targets. Highly popular, trending in the left progressive Twitter community. Silencing them is noticeable, controversial and fascistic (read the attached article in tweet 1).
Manipulation is one thing. But this is next level Maskirovka. Twitter has become a very unsafe public square. Allegorically, Elmo’s overt support for Russian interests in Ukraine puts the permanent suspensions of Canadian progressive activists in perspective.
Private ownership of such a crucial communications medium has clearly been revealed as a threat to global democracy, not just Canada’s.
No other communications medium has an anarchist foundation. Print media, radio broadcast, television broadcast. Every medium has regulations. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Not the internet. Why not?
Because it’s the last realm of ANARCHY where libertarians can rule & control using propaganda, Maskirovka, provocation, incitement of hatred, incitement of violence & hybrid warfare. Why do you think cons are so adamant the internet not be regulated?
Why are Canadian and foreign adversaries of democracy fighting Bill C-11 in Canada, digital regulation in US, digital legislation in the EU and Australia?
Because far right libertarians want an unregulated environment. A lack of regulation permits the strongest to dominate. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Deregulation is the ambition of far right libertarians so their elaborate infrastructure of saboteurs, provocateurs, influencers, politicians, think tanks, donor foundations and authoritarian governments can take control of everything. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Basically erasing the last millennia of legal code and reining in the toxic autocratic systems of monarchic, aristocratic, oligarchic & ochlocratic rule that impose arbitrary regulation by personal whim tyrants have imposed throughout history.
That’s why they were removed. To manipulate the left’s fear that regulation would give elites more power. Because moderates respect legitimate authority.
I’m watching Poilievre say exactly this on CBC in his response to the POEC report.
Lie after lie after lie.
Demagogic populist rhetoric about common sense, poverty, MAID (not abortion), inflation. As the response to a judge’s report that stated clearly that partisan politics created this conflict, inflamed the conflict and required a last resort drastic measure of invoking the EA.
Poilievre is stating that PMJT is a tool of Chinese foreign regime.
But who signed the 31 year sovereignty limiting FIPA with China? Conservative Party of Canada in 2012.
Poilievre just called CBC biased against him and conservatives.
This is fascistic propaganda meant to undermine every CBC journalist and report.
That’s who Poilievre is. An unoriginal Trump wannabe fascist pipsqueak.
It’s no secret that McKenzie and Poilievre were connected.
What every Canadian needs to ask themselves is whether CPC has sunk to the level of using a radicalized antigovernment private militia to interfere in Canadian democracy? Proud Boys were already banned.
Other more well known radicalized white supremacists were under surveillance because of the American J6 event a year before.
This inquiry can’t answer those questions. But Canadians deserve truthful answers.
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Look what just occurred on Power and Politics with zero pushback. Do better CBC!
This is incredible! This is what conservatives believe.
Government for the people not of the people.
“… of the people, by the people and for the people” is part of the American Gettysburg Address. This Alberta conservative MP is making reference to Lincoln Republicanism and creating a false equivalency between slavery and Covid restrictions using an American cultural heritage.
As an indigenous woman and an Albertan, I take umbrage to the concept of slavery being compared to the restriction of mandatory mask use & vaccinations.
People were given a choice to get vaccinated or not. But consequences were not optional. Because that’s how choice works.
The reason Smith’s supporters are unaware of how the government in Canada works is because they don’t support public education.
Many of them are homeschooled or attend private Christian academies subsidized by public taxes.
@codename_julie@trmeech@TheBreakdownAB@JasonOnTheDrums So while this is typical junior high basic civics knowledge, that is not what these citizens have been taught. They’ve been taught about American civics. Which is why so many of them refer to 1st Amendment free speech, 2nd Amendment gun rights & school choice.
@codename_julie@trmeech@TheBreakdownAB@JasonOnTheDrums None of those issues are Canadian or Albertan. But hats why UCP immediately replaced the Alberta draft curriculum developed by PC and NDP governments. Because it is Canadian and Albertan in content.
This interview with Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada is extremely relevant to current discussions about PMJT’s longevity and the possibility of an election.
It also seriously diminishes PP as a viable political threat.
While I understand the graphic in the original tweet in this thread is attempting to make the point that the nation is being run by cons at the provincial level, the narrative behind the graphic is that Canada is not broken.
@EarthSchool@QwertyDee_ Progressives must take caution when creating memes and partisan narratives.
1. Do NOT use con’s terminology. Find another word other than ‘broken’.
Canada isn’t irreparably damaged, but cons did try to tear down the place and sell it to the highest bidder.
Incidentally this is the same problem in Germany and a few other nations reluctant to overtly support Ukraine to win this war. A war Ukraine did not ask for, did not provoke and has been fighting for almost a decade.
Ukraine is being counselled by several progressives to end the war ands negotiate peace.
Funny I do not remember May stepping aside and negotiating peace when Annamie Paul was leader of the Greens.