As Canada slides ever further into Totalitarianism, the media averts its eyes and pretends it isn't happening. Canadians need to wake up and realize what time it is.
Great piece of work Gord! Must have taken a lot of time and dedication to put it together. I can't disagree with you on any of it. I have to read through it a few more times to digest it all. I do like how you referred to that Trudeau mouthpiece the Canadian Anti-Hate Network as the Northern Poverty Law Center. So true. I have also been following the Helen Gru nightmare as well through Don Best's reports. I will be back looking in on the Lich-Barber shitshow in the new year. And I agree with you about the judge allowing those Ottawa residents to testify, it was a complete waste of time. I don't know if you are aware that Judge Perkins McVey was also the judge on the trial of Navy Vice Admiral Mark Norman. He was maliciously prosecuted for beach of trust when he allegedly embarrassed the Trudeau government by publicizing the fact they were planning to rescind a shipbuilding contract awarded to one company by the Harper government in order to give it to the Irving company in New Brunswick, where Treasury Board Chairman Scott Brison resided. The move would have cost taxpayers $81 million and delayed delivery of the ship. When it was made public they had a change of heart. They however, went after Norman, with a SWAT team of RCMP arriving at his house to search and seize computers, documents. He was removed from his command and his life upended. The pretrial went on for 18 months, before the Crown stayed the charge deciding would never get a conviction. The fact that Perkins McVey let that gong show go on for 18 months in pretrial worries me about how she is handling the Lich-Barber trial. She seems to focus on a lot a minutea--like hearing those witnesses--which in addition to the Crown's incompetence is really dragging things out. Anyhow Happy New Year, we can all hope at least.
Great, exhaustive overview, Gord! An accurate and depressing portrait of present-day Canada.
One small clarification: Rather than only beginning now, Guy Meister's trial has been ongoing, in dribs and drabs, much like the Lich/Barber case. Guy drove his black vintage Mack all the way from Nova Scotia, in the middle of the Canadian winter, with an inadequate heating system. He then spent 3 weeks parked at the Rideau and Sussex intersection.
He'll be in Courtroom 11, 161 Elgin Street, Ottawa
Dec 28, 2023·edited Dec 28, 2023Liked by Autonomous Truck(er)s
I can't believe we've arrived at this point in Canada.
I have to brush up on my Beccaria - the great liberal jurist and philosopher. He said something to the effect of once the perception of justice is unfair by the people, it undermines the legitimacy of the justice system and law. What the Coutts Four are experiencing is what Joseph faced in The Trial. They're staring at a stairwell that has no end. This should NOT be happening in a Western liberal democracy with the rule of law.
An enlightened society cannot proceed or function at that point. Tyranny sets in.
What you wrote is tyranny. People think tyranny is visceral and comes by the barrel of a gun but it's much more subtle than that as Solzhenitsyn explained and described in such haunting detail.
Out democracies have a lot of 'unwritten codes, common bonds and etiquettes' built into them that reflect the spirit and will of the people. You can't put all of it down on paper because God's authority and will can't be violated. The 'rule of law' is a principle. It can't be written down and enforced. It has to be observed and upheld. If you violate it, there's no turning back. It's a crossing of the Rubicon. And this government has committed a few assaults on the rule of law leaving in effect a LAWLESS country.
But what of the 'will' of the people? Constitutions and Charters are only as strong as the 'guardians' meaning the people are willing to enforce it. The soldiers (the bureaucracy including judges) reflect will by gauging 'public interest' as 'will'. For example, the courts dismissed Peckford et al on the preposterous grounds there was 'no public interest' despite people signing in to hear the court on a record-setting level. Worse, that it's all 'moot'. Now I ask. How could the justice system deny the right for people to be heard? They refuse to listen to the evidence. And this is why Canada will repeat all the same bad aggressive and futile mistakes it did in 2020-21.
Among Western nations, Canada offers the WEAKEST protection of rights. It's a double whammy when you factor in the apathy of the people. Canadians never had to fight for their country like many great nations. It's not a good thing. It leaves us obedient and neutered. That's why we tend to follow and copy other nations. No one follows us.
But the truckers changed that. The truckers showed 'Hey, we count. What you're doing is not RIGHT.' It was the first time Canadians at large witnessed it and roughly half of them (and 80% of liberal voters) were confused and reacted with hostility thanks to the outright lies peddled in the media. For once, Canada showed it had a fucking pulse. That some people understand the tree of liberty MUST be nourished from time to time. The Canadian government responded cynically with a most abhorrent example of overreach yet seen in all Western nations. Canadians don't quite grasp that we became the FIRST Western nation to freeze the bank accounts of protestors who had committed NO CRIME.
But there remain to this day people who refer to people defending Charter rights and the Bill of Rights (mobility rights WERE violated. Canada even violated the Magna Carta for crying out loud) as 'freedumbers'. Fear of a medical crisis trumps civil liberties and overall public health in Canada.
Another group of Canadians who have done right by the country are the people who set up NCI and collected testimonies and data from Canadians harmed by all this. It will be a model for other countries as they slowly move towards official inquiries.
The Trudeau Liberals are indeed stealing a page from the DNC. Ironic, given that they accuse the Conservatives of importing MAGA politics. The funny thing is, whatever you think of MAGA they don't engage in LAWFARE like the left does. When I first heard them starting to refer to the over blown Jan. 6 script, I knew it was becoming part of their playbook. And that's exactly how it played out with the EA. They needed to fabricate a narrative to 'justify' it. And then an 'independent' (activist) judge was wheeled in to rubber stamp it albeit 'reluctantly'. Rinse and repeat with Johnston and the China interference 'rappateuring'.
It's all so obvious because they, well, suck at it. They can't even lie right because they're stupid people. Justin, Joly, Freeland, Mendicino, Lametti, Telford, etc. - stupid people too arrogant to see they're stupid. And stupid people do, anyone? Bueller? STUPID things. Canadians are being made fools.
I'll stop here. But I'm one of the few people who watched POEC. I could write a book about what I heard. The government had no coherent stance. They were all over the place perjuring themselves (one of the more bizarre and brazen lies was Trudeau claiming babies were being used a human shields. WTF? And no one challenged him on that nonsense!) in the process. Rouleau let himself be rolled. He had a chance to protect Canadian democracy but chose partisan politics as more important.
A quick note on the opportunistic Chump. Yup. His antics at POEC were that of a really bad caricature of Lionel Hutz. He quickly went into my 'despise' list.
The fix is indeed in all these cases it appears. Canada is on one knee.
Thanks for all the effort put into this shocking account of injustice. Down here about 90 miles south of the border in the US, I am reading both Tamara Lich's book and Honking for Freedom by Benjamin Dichter. Amazing and enlightening stories. All the heroes of the Canadian truckers' protest need the support of every freedom-loving person in the world.
Excellent article that shows just how unjust our justice system is. The heads of most police forces in this country a well as most judges and lawyers have pledged their fealty to the guy running things in Ottawa and his bureaucratic minions. The Libs have broken laws or reworded them to suit their goals which ignores the constitution and allows them to control or imprison it's citizens with impunity. 2024 isn't looking too good for any of us.
When men and women are unfairly and provocatively treated by a weaponized legal system for seeking redress of grievances against the same callous government that has imprisoned them, it is a time long overdue for a step-wise removal of that government.
Canadians really need to change the laws around the incestuous relationship between their media and government.
Personally, I see the fools in power have already repeatedly shot themselves in their own foot - the people are waking up. Things are being seen that were once suppressed. The rot will be eventually be exposed - the question is, will the body survive?
"Speaking of media coverage, or lack thereof, people need to understand something about the various ‘publication bans’ which apply in Canada to this case. (Thankfully, I am in The US, and can say what I damn well please - Praise God for the First Amendment to the Constitution of these United States of America - while we still have it.)"
And yet we still have idiots openly stamping their little feet questioning why anyone would need an AR-15 with a 30-round magazine...
These are dark times for the west. The spirit of the law is all but gone. Law has descended into a method of blatant establishment warfare on a scale not seen since before the New Deal era, if ever. The power elite think they can rend the threads of our cultural foundations: legitimacy, basic fairness, and free political thought can be arrogantly tossed aside. There is overreach everywhere from the elites -- not a sign of stability or even strength. Power yes, but not strength.
The idiots who run things think the world is Game of Thrones where an elite class can do anything it wishes, treat the masses with cruelty and disdain, and the reaction will always be contained. As this illusion dissipates expect even harsher reactions than we are already seeing. De-banking, lawfare and censorship will increase and we will likely experience a new "black swan" event to distract us once again from confronting the power elite.
We have stupid, lazy and brutish leadership -- vanity and pride are their primary sins. They did much better when they had self-control, could absorb public opinion and make shallow moves to appease the public while doing nothing to change the overall drift into corruption and immorality. That era is past.
I'm not channeling the Oracle when I predict 2024 will bring unprecedented chaos to the west, especially in the USA. It will be the year they finally place that last straw on the camel's back. A lot of the awful things that are happening - including the subject of this post - will likely increase exponentially and then break under the weight of their own contradictions and corruptions. This will happen because the largely slumbering masses, once the oppression reaches a tipping point, will wake up and roll over and in the process finish off the system's legitimacy to bring forth an era of change. Years will happen in weeks.
It's important we are emotionally prepared as best as we can to not overreact to every provocation and instead ride the rising tide of opposition while we let them increase their authoritarian tendencies. They want us to overreact, so if we keep it cool and not interrupt their serial mistakes, they will be laid bare until they stand naked before all the people.
Keeping the pressure on is vital, but it should be a steadily increasing pressure, not an explosion, if it can be avoided. Either way, certain "elites" are about to experience Nemesis on a scale we haven't seen since WWII.
Has anyone noticed the government handing out the Order of Canada to 'experts' who spread the regime's propaganda? Timothy Caulfield - of all people - was one and now The Globe's Andre Picard who spewed unethical bullshit. Talk abut debasing the Order.
I guess the government has to reward its hacks with a Scooby snack.
Hey Gord, Have you heard anything about Chris Carbert's bail hearing which supposedly took place on January 8th, at least that was when it was adjourned to from his December appearance. I can't find any update on the Alberta Political Prisoners or from Mocha Bezirgan who was covering it?
Great piece of work Gord! Must have taken a lot of time and dedication to put it together. I can't disagree with you on any of it. I have to read through it a few more times to digest it all. I do like how you referred to that Trudeau mouthpiece the Canadian Anti-Hate Network as the Northern Poverty Law Center. So true. I have also been following the Helen Gru nightmare as well through Don Best's reports. I will be back looking in on the Lich-Barber shitshow in the new year. And I agree with you about the judge allowing those Ottawa residents to testify, it was a complete waste of time. I don't know if you are aware that Judge Perkins McVey was also the judge on the trial of Navy Vice Admiral Mark Norman. He was maliciously prosecuted for beach of trust when he allegedly embarrassed the Trudeau government by publicizing the fact they were planning to rescind a shipbuilding contract awarded to one company by the Harper government in order to give it to the Irving company in New Brunswick, where Treasury Board Chairman Scott Brison resided. The move would have cost taxpayers $81 million and delayed delivery of the ship. When it was made public they had a change of heart. They however, went after Norman, with a SWAT team of RCMP arriving at his house to search and seize computers, documents. He was removed from his command and his life upended. The pretrial went on for 18 months, before the Crown stayed the charge deciding would never get a conviction. The fact that Perkins McVey let that gong show go on for 18 months in pretrial worries me about how she is handling the Lich-Barber trial. She seems to focus on a lot a minutea--like hearing those witnesses--which in addition to the Crown's incompetence is really dragging things out. Anyhow Happy New Year, we can all hope at least.
Great, exhaustive overview, Gord! An accurate and depressing portrait of present-day Canada.
One small clarification: Rather than only beginning now, Guy Meister's trial has been ongoing, in dribs and drabs, much like the Lich/Barber case. Guy drove his black vintage Mack all the way from Nova Scotia, in the middle of the Canadian winter, with an inadequate heating system. He then spent 3 weeks parked at the Rideau and Sussex intersection.
He'll be in Courtroom 11, 161 Elgin Street, Ottawa
Thursday January 4th, 10 am
Friday January 5th, 10 am
I can't believe we've arrived at this point in Canada.
I have to brush up on my Beccaria - the great liberal jurist and philosopher. He said something to the effect of once the perception of justice is unfair by the people, it undermines the legitimacy of the justice system and law. What the Coutts Four are experiencing is what Joseph faced in The Trial. They're staring at a stairwell that has no end. This should NOT be happening in a Western liberal democracy with the rule of law.
An enlightened society cannot proceed or function at that point. Tyranny sets in.
What you wrote is tyranny. People think tyranny is visceral and comes by the barrel of a gun but it's much more subtle than that as Solzhenitsyn explained and described in such haunting detail.
Out democracies have a lot of 'unwritten codes, common bonds and etiquettes' built into them that reflect the spirit and will of the people. You can't put all of it down on paper because God's authority and will can't be violated. The 'rule of law' is a principle. It can't be written down and enforced. It has to be observed and upheld. If you violate it, there's no turning back. It's a crossing of the Rubicon. And this government has committed a few assaults on the rule of law leaving in effect a LAWLESS country.
But what of the 'will' of the people? Constitutions and Charters are only as strong as the 'guardians' meaning the people are willing to enforce it. The soldiers (the bureaucracy including judges) reflect will by gauging 'public interest' as 'will'. For example, the courts dismissed Peckford et al on the preposterous grounds there was 'no public interest' despite people signing in to hear the court on a record-setting level. Worse, that it's all 'moot'. Now I ask. How could the justice system deny the right for people to be heard? They refuse to listen to the evidence. And this is why Canada will repeat all the same bad aggressive and futile mistakes it did in 2020-21.
Among Western nations, Canada offers the WEAKEST protection of rights. It's a double whammy when you factor in the apathy of the people. Canadians never had to fight for their country like many great nations. It's not a good thing. It leaves us obedient and neutered. That's why we tend to follow and copy other nations. No one follows us.
But the truckers changed that. The truckers showed 'Hey, we count. What you're doing is not RIGHT.' It was the first time Canadians at large witnessed it and roughly half of them (and 80% of liberal voters) were confused and reacted with hostility thanks to the outright lies peddled in the media. For once, Canada showed it had a fucking pulse. That some people understand the tree of liberty MUST be nourished from time to time. The Canadian government responded cynically with a most abhorrent example of overreach yet seen in all Western nations. Canadians don't quite grasp that we became the FIRST Western nation to freeze the bank accounts of protestors who had committed NO CRIME.
But there remain to this day people who refer to people defending Charter rights and the Bill of Rights (mobility rights WERE violated. Canada even violated the Magna Carta for crying out loud) as 'freedumbers'. Fear of a medical crisis trumps civil liberties and overall public health in Canada.
Another group of Canadians who have done right by the country are the people who set up NCI and collected testimonies and data from Canadians harmed by all this. It will be a model for other countries as they slowly move towards official inquiries.
The Trudeau Liberals are indeed stealing a page from the DNC. Ironic, given that they accuse the Conservatives of importing MAGA politics. The funny thing is, whatever you think of MAGA they don't engage in LAWFARE like the left does. When I first heard them starting to refer to the over blown Jan. 6 script, I knew it was becoming part of their playbook. And that's exactly how it played out with the EA. They needed to fabricate a narrative to 'justify' it. And then an 'independent' (activist) judge was wheeled in to rubber stamp it albeit 'reluctantly'. Rinse and repeat with Johnston and the China interference 'rappateuring'.
It's all so obvious because they, well, suck at it. They can't even lie right because they're stupid people. Justin, Joly, Freeland, Mendicino, Lametti, Telford, etc. - stupid people too arrogant to see they're stupid. And stupid people do, anyone? Bueller? STUPID things. Canadians are being made fools.
I'll stop here. But I'm one of the few people who watched POEC. I could write a book about what I heard. The government had no coherent stance. They were all over the place perjuring themselves (one of the more bizarre and brazen lies was Trudeau claiming babies were being used a human shields. WTF? And no one challenged him on that nonsense!) in the process. Rouleau let himself be rolled. He had a chance to protect Canadian democracy but chose partisan politics as more important.
A quick note on the opportunistic Chump. Yup. His antics at POEC were that of a really bad caricature of Lionel Hutz. He quickly went into my 'despise' list.
The fix is indeed in all these cases it appears. Canada is on one knee.
Happy New Year to all.
Thanks for all the effort put into this shocking account of injustice. Down here about 90 miles south of the border in the US, I am reading both Tamara Lich's book and Honking for Freedom by Benjamin Dichter. Amazing and enlightening stories. All the heroes of the Canadian truckers' protest need the support of every freedom-loving person in the world.
Excellent article that shows just how unjust our justice system is. The heads of most police forces in this country a well as most judges and lawyers have pledged their fealty to the guy running things in Ottawa and his bureaucratic minions. The Libs have broken laws or reworded them to suit their goals which ignores the constitution and allows them to control or imprison it's citizens with impunity. 2024 isn't looking too good for any of us.
When men and women are unfairly and provocatively treated by a weaponized legal system for seeking redress of grievances against the same callous government that has imprisoned them, it is a time long overdue for a step-wise removal of that government.
Canadians really need to change the laws around the incestuous relationship between their media and government.
Personally, I see the fools in power have already repeatedly shot themselves in their own foot - the people are waking up. Things are being seen that were once suppressed. The rot will be eventually be exposed - the question is, will the body survive?
"Speaking of media coverage, or lack thereof, people need to understand something about the various ‘publication bans’ which apply in Canada to this case. (Thankfully, I am in The US, and can say what I damn well please - Praise God for the First Amendment to the Constitution of these United States of America - while we still have it.)"
And yet we still have idiots openly stamping their little feet questioning why anyone would need an AR-15 with a 30-round magazine...
These are dark times for the west. The spirit of the law is all but gone. Law has descended into a method of blatant establishment warfare on a scale not seen since before the New Deal era, if ever. The power elite think they can rend the threads of our cultural foundations: legitimacy, basic fairness, and free political thought can be arrogantly tossed aside. There is overreach everywhere from the elites -- not a sign of stability or even strength. Power yes, but not strength.
The idiots who run things think the world is Game of Thrones where an elite class can do anything it wishes, treat the masses with cruelty and disdain, and the reaction will always be contained. As this illusion dissipates expect even harsher reactions than we are already seeing. De-banking, lawfare and censorship will increase and we will likely experience a new "black swan" event to distract us once again from confronting the power elite.
We have stupid, lazy and brutish leadership -- vanity and pride are their primary sins. They did much better when they had self-control, could absorb public opinion and make shallow moves to appease the public while doing nothing to change the overall drift into corruption and immorality. That era is past.
I'm not channeling the Oracle when I predict 2024 will bring unprecedented chaos to the west, especially in the USA. It will be the year they finally place that last straw on the camel's back. A lot of the awful things that are happening - including the subject of this post - will likely increase exponentially and then break under the weight of their own contradictions and corruptions. This will happen because the largely slumbering masses, once the oppression reaches a tipping point, will wake up and roll over and in the process finish off the system's legitimacy to bring forth an era of change. Years will happen in weeks.
It's important we are emotionally prepared as best as we can to not overreact to every provocation and instead ride the rising tide of opposition while we let them increase their authoritarian tendencies. They want us to overreact, so if we keep it cool and not interrupt their serial mistakes, they will be laid bare until they stand naked before all the people.
Keeping the pressure on is vital, but it should be a steadily increasing pressure, not an explosion, if it can be avoided. Either way, certain "elites" are about to experience Nemesis on a scale we haven't seen since WWII.
We have elected Trudeaus 7 times, we are getting what we voted for, good and hard.
Has anyone noticed the government handing out the Order of Canada to 'experts' who spread the regime's propaganda? Timothy Caulfield - of all people - was one and now The Globe's Andre Picard who spewed unethical bullshit. Talk abut debasing the Order.
I guess the government has to reward its hacks with a Scooby snack.
Hey Gord, Have you heard anything about Chris Carbert's bail hearing which supposedly took place on January 8th, at least that was when it was adjourned to from his December appearance. I can't find any update on the Alberta Political Prisoners or from Mocha Bezirgan who was covering it?
Crown.