Donna Laframboise on part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance last Friday at the Public Order Emergency Commission’s hearings in Ottawa:
There’s a concept in psychology known as projection – accusing others of your own shortcomings. Last week Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, told an Emergencies Act hearing that Freedom Convoy protesters didn’t just want to talk. They wanted, he said, to be obeyed.
That was a strange word for him to use. About people he’d never spoken to. Yet it sums up his own posture rather nicely: Don’t bother trying to change my mind. I’m in charge, you must obey. Conversation over. Case closed.
According to Mr. Trudeau, the Freedom Convoy didn’t deserve a face-to-face meeting with his government because it wanted to change public policy. How terrible that free people, in a free country might want some influence over the increasingly draconian COVID rules they were required to follow. How unreasonable for them to come to Ottawa in an attempt to communicate the depths of their desperation.
A Prime Minister who received less than 33% of the votes cast during the federal election a mere four months earlier chose to thumb his nose at these protesters. Get lost, peasants. You will not be changing public policy.
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We need to recognize what has happened here. The same federal officials who meet with corporate lobbyists by the thousands refused to have a single meeting with the truckers.
This, ladies and gentleman, is the state of Canada’s democracy.
The missing component in all of the reporting on this is the fact that there were vaccine exemptions for truckers to move goods between the US and Canada. Heroes one year, subversives the next. Typical “progressive” actions though, when they are done with someone they just toss them under the bus. When those exemptions expired thousands of truckers were forced out of work.
It is a fact that the only reason many people took the jab was government coercion. No jab, no job, no travel, no dining out, etc. They had a product they wanted to force on people, a product that we are learning was poorly tested over the short term, and the long term effects are still to be sorted out. The efficacy of the jab has proven to be trash, and the people pushing this crap just keep on pushing it as though no one can see the truth.
The media picked their side, the paying side, and stuck to the script without any balance too. This is what happens when the government controls companies through subsidies, less independent reporting. Never bite the hand that feeds you, eh?
Comment by Dwayne — November 29, 2022 @ 12:37