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CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon)
@FromKulak
I keep encountering this misconception from people who don't follow Canadian politics…
That somehow the Trucker convoy was defeated.
The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.
People remember Trudeau's crackdown, old ladies having their skulls cracked with batons, Disabled indigenous grandmothers trampled by police horses, Bank accounts frozen and public employees investigated for mere donations…
And there's a big reason people remember this: It was dramatic, and the media and the regime certainly wanted you to think resistance was futile.
What people don't remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath: The government caved on absolutely everything! Within a week for the most important things, and then a month or so for the rest.
First off there was the massive political shift that happened as the convoy was occurring:
Jason Kenny, the pro-lockdown Premiere of Alberta (Canada's most conservative province) was forced to announce his resignation, and Alberta immediately lifted all its lockdown impositions.
Erin O'Toole the pro-lockdown leader of the conservative party was likewise forced to resign, his temporary replacement Candice Bergen (not to be mistaken with the actress) being a longtime rival opposed to lockdowns, and his main rival who replaced her after party elections were
@PierrePoilievre
, the Politician after
@MaximeBernier
who was quickest to embrace the Truckers and their cry for freedom.
As the convoy was ongoing Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act (the Act which replaced the War Measures Act for invoking Martial Law)… Now these grant the government almost unlimited powers, famously the War Measures Act was invoked by Trudeau's Father to detain Quebecers and raid hundreds of homes without warrants during the FLQ separatist crisis of 1972…the catch is while the follow on Emergencies Act can be invoked by a prime minister parliament has to sign off on the act's continued use within one week.
Well, skulls were cracked, accounts were frozen, and as the week passed things came down to the deadline… On the very last night… Trudeau managed to get sign-off (without the conservative opposition) from the House of Commons, but it had to go to the Upper House, the Canadian Senate.
NOW. The Canadian Senate is a shameful institution.
It's like the British House of Lords but without the nobility.
A premonition of the great Class War to come.
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8:50 AM · Jul 12, 2023
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