Trudeau dictatorship was seen coming 7 years ago, by the Huffington Post

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I do not agree. The truckers have been dispersed or arrested; their vehicles have been towed away and are in the hands of the police. Nobody has been killed.
That is the job of government according to scriptures, so I'd imagine your complaint is ideological?
 
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I didn't know there was anything about trucks in the scriptures. You live and learn!

Actually I am not complaining about anything. The Canadian government has been acting constitutionally in the interests of the country.
 
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I didn't know there was anything about trucks in the scriptures. You live and learn!

Actually I am not complaining about anything. The Canadian government has been acting constitutionally in the interests of the country.
Thanks for clarifying that.

By the way, there is an iron beast in scripture that is said to be powered by a dragon. And today we use metal contraptions powered by fossil fuels, so it might be mentioned in metaphor, but not specifically.
 
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There was definitely intimidation. Also part of the definition.
Only if you deconstruct the definition. If you take it as written, you need both violence and intimidation. Sitting in trucks doesn’t cause terror. Nor is it really intimidating. I’m sitting in one right now. I doubt anyone is intimidated by that.
 
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Only if you deconstruct the definition. If you take it as written, you need both violence and intimidation. Sitting in trucks doesn’t cause terror. Nor is it really intimidating. I’m sitting in one right now. I doubt anyone is intimidated by that.
The trucks are just the face of the movement, the intimidation of the healthcare workers had been happening long before the protest.

The resulting reduction of staff resulted in more deaths.

Terrorism.
 
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Trudeau used emergency powers as part of the constitutionally sanctioned measures available in - guess what - an emergency.

What's the emergency?

Such powers are available to all democratic governments. The population by and large accepts them as a necessity. So Canadians, being among the most reasonable people on Earth, overwhelmingly accepted the restrictions in response to Covid. And the measures worked better in Canada than almost anywhere else.

Hey that's great.

A tiny minority couldn't - or wouldn't - go along with them and tried to overturn the universal requirement to be vaccinated before entering the country.

Canada still gets 10,000+ illegal immigrants entering the country yearly, right?

Does Trudeau have the military bash them over the head?

There is the tyranny - a tiny unrepresentative bunch of extremists attempting to overturn a widely accepted leadership (the Parliament of Canada).

Calling Trudeau a tyrant is perverse.

Do they have a right to protest or not?
 
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The trucks are just the face of the movement, the intimidation of the healthcare workers had been happening long before the protest.

The resulting reduction of staff resulted in more deaths.

Terrorism.
Lol. Okay, if you want to change what words mean, then I can’t stop you.
 
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The article below was from early 2015. It's not too surprising how the fears of 7 years ago are finally coming to pass. Trudeau enacted the Emergency Powers Act to deal with those who didn't agree with his vision, and now that his opposition has been silenced, he isn't letting go of those emergency powers.Canada lawmakers extend emergency powers for truck protests

"The leader of that party does what he wants, when he wants, and no one dares question him. Would a Prime Minister Trudeau arbitrarily whip the vote and outlaw certain moral questions? Could Prime Minister Trudeau be trusted to make decisions for the good of the country, not just for his personal self-worth? Would Trudeau call in the police to enforce his vision? Let's hope we never have the opportunity to ask those questions."
Why Canada Will Become a Dictatorship Under Trudeau

The MAGA crowed in America completely lost. MAGA crowed call Democratically elected PM ( Trudeau) a dictator while they praise Putin.

You can’t have logical discussion with them anymore.
 
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What's the emergency?

You need to ask?

The emergency powers were a response to Covid, of course. There will be people who think those powers are illegitimate or too draconian, but the Canadian government considered them appropriate. Every other government in the world (with some insignificant exceptions noted above) has imposed similar restrictions to Canada's.

The truckers were not immigrants; there is no connection between the power to impose restrictions on unvaccinated travellers and the issue of immigration. I think that is just a distraction.
 
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Oh that was your sign? My bad. (not obvious, but that angle is funny also)
Not my sign, but “seen elsewhere” and the guy holding it explained that he was a satirist.
 
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Whaaaat? It was three weeks. Three weeks! I'm actually astonished that some guys haven't complained as to how weak Trudeau has shown to have been. Who takes three weeks to move some trucks that were blocking 25% of your trade? Who takes three weeks to book a bunch of guys who are blocking up your city centre? Who takes three weeks to say 'enough is enough'? What sort of wimpy government (apologies to all Canadian forum members) says 'If you don't leave, then we'll really be annoyed and will come back in a couple of weeks to ask to you again'.
No regime has the least moral right to impose a dangerous and useless medical procedure on the People while actually forbidding effective treatments. Doing so has historically been regarded as a crime against humanity. IF you believe getting jabbed is a good thing by all means get jabbed which in theory makes you safe from catching a Covid 19 cold. The unjabbed are not harming you so leave them alone. BTW, why are truckers peacefully standing up for Freedom a threat to national security but BLM rioting and burning in cities across the country A-OK?
 
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Calling Trudeau a tyrant is perverse.

Dictator, tyrant, etc are labels have no meaningful application to the Canadian government. Alas, this is the type of language the so-called "conservative" media has employed in our country for the last several years to elicit outrage and emotional response (and profits). And when challenge, it's excused as hyperbole.
 
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And one cannot hold the viability of the economy at ransom ... until someone comes to talk to you.
In todays world of arrogance and pride that is often the only way to get attention for the people. Meanwhile the elites have the media to bombard us with their propaganda everyday.

What we are seeing in the world once again are a class of leaders no longer interested in representing the people but more interesting in not having their power questioned. That in itself is and always has been a problem.

A simple meeting could have avoided all this , yet it was power that showed the ugly side of the two groups, preferring to flex muscles as if this was some strike breaking action rather than a matter of diplomacy. Diplomacy it seems is reserved only for when power meets with power. The rest of us (and I say us because I doubt there are any truly powerful here) must learn our place and mind our own business. Nice system and good work up top if you can get it.
 
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No regime has the least moral right to impose a dangerous and useless medical procedure on the People while actually forbidding effective treatments

True, in part. But that is not what happened. (I don't accept the silly off-topic assertion about the efficacy of the covid vaccine.)

Every country has a right to refuse entry to aliens. The Canadian government insists for the present on the condition of entry of all aliens - they must show proof of vaccination. they have not attempted to forcibly vaccinate anybody.

This thread has had a tenuous hold on reality from the start. Now it has lost touch with reality altogether.
 
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Dictator, tyrant, etc are labels have no meaningful application to the Canadian government. Alas, this is the type of language the so-called "conservative" media has employed in our country for the last several years to elicit outrage and emotional response (and profits). And when challenge, it's excused as hyperbole.
A tyrant is as a tyrant does. And the Canadian government is tyrannical.
 
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What we are seeing in the world once again are a class of leaders no longer interested in representing the people but more interesting in not having their power questioned. That in itself is and always has been a problem.
This is clearly subjective ... and isn't particularly representative of any but a faction of Americans.
 
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This is clearly subjective ... and isn't particularly representative of any but a faction of Americans.
I'm talking globally and one must remember most leaders in the free world are subject to the demands of their benefactors, which ain't the common people. Power serves power.
 
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