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Hi Guys
It's time again for a discussion.
What do you think about the trucker convoy and the enacting of the emergency
act?
I expect conflicting opinions so please be courteous as amazingly there are
other opinions than yours.
Wynn
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Subject: NP Platformed: Texts prove convoy had ruling class shivering in its
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We now find ourselves in a world where everyone freaks out when an unsavoury
dictatorship is allowed to foot the bill for an international sporting event,
but many of those same voices remain silent when equally egregious regimes are
handed large sums of cash in the name of ‘climate justice.’ "
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THE JOKES ARE WHERE THE TRUTH LIVES
Among the zaniest nuggets of news to fall out of the Emergencies Act hearings
this week was a text-message exchange in which exasperated federal cabinet
ministers discussed mobilizing Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) tanks against last
winter’s truck convoy protests centered on Ottawa. On Feb. 2, less than a week
after the trucks showed up in the capital, Justice Minister
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David Lametti urged the public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, to act fast.
“You need to get the police to move,” he typed to Mendicino. “And the CAF if
necessary. Too many people are being seriously adversely impacted by what is an
occupation.” Mendicino, allegedly recognizing Lametti’s plea for army
intervention as a joke, asked Lametti how many tanks he wanted. Lametti
answered, “I reckon one will do!”
These ministers are now blowing off their conversation as mere banter, and I’m
willing to go along with that. But I also think the jokes about sending in
tanks are psychologically telling, even considered as a joke.
There are untold millions of us who don’t like obstructive urban protests,
whether they’re done in the name of left-wing climate panic or right-wing COVID
paranoia. The “truckers” who invaded Ottawa to protest public-health rules were
counting on the same slow, passive police response that various species of
left-wing kook have received for decades when they want to stop traffic or
occupy some piece of infrastructure. And that’s exactly what they got.
The Ottawa and provincial police forces didn’t really have plans or tactics
ready for a well-funded, determined protest by the hinterland working classes;
they hadn’t asked the question, “What if the trucks that keep cities fed and
fuelled are ever used passively, in numbers, as a weapon against a city?”
The justice minister didn’t sound like he was joking when he described this as
“an occupation.” Two visions of a national capital city came suddenly into
conflict in a new way. A capital is supposed to serve the whole citizenry; in a
democracy, it’s supposed to be the ultimate venue for the petitioning of
popular grievances. But it’s also supposed to be a civilized place to live for
large numbers of government employees, and the “occupying” truckers were making
that difficult in nonviolent but unkind ways.
In Lametti’s mind, the convoy protesters were already firmly “othered” by the
beginning of February. It’s not really a coincidence that he was thinking of
armies and tanks — having dark thoughts, expressed jokingly, that no good
Liberal would ever have about Greenpeace or Extinction Rebellion.
Within a fortnight of Lametti’s remark about tanks, the Liberals had declared a
national public-order emergency and begun to take what used to be called “war
measures,” even though convoy blockades of key international border crossings
were already, at that moment, being dispersed. It was the first use of federal
emergency law since 1970, when the War Measures Act was invoked against an
outburst of actual political terrorism, murder and kidnapping. The Ottawa
protests were, in the end, uncannily nonviolent; they had no lasting costs that
anyone can point to, did no permanent harm to anyone or anything.
This isn’t really what the Emergencies Act is for, as every sensible person now
recognizes, but you will still hear residents of Ottawa defending the act’s use
on the grounds that, well, something beyond mere police activity was surely
needed. It is almost as if the mere use of police force against protesters
wouldn’t have been sufficiently satisfying. The interruption of parliamentary
government, of ordinary political life, was a moral imperative at that moment.
It won’t do to deny that this is a matter of a ruling class suddenly being
confronted with its subjects’ discovery of their potential power. And the other
side of this political struggle knows the truth, too. The participants in the
convoy protests know deep down that their protests weren’t just about bouncy
castles and street parties, or even about COVID-19, but about expressing the
power of the out-there Canadians, the Canadians who dig and build and load and
drill and grow and shoot and, yes, drive truck. They meant to send a warning to
the up-here Canadians, the ones who think and write and count and code for a
living. We’re supposed to be in charge, lawyers and accountants and politicians
found themselves thinking: where are our tanks?
— Colby Cosh
THE LATEST IN NP COMMENT
* “By early Sunday morning, the last day of the conference, an agreement
was reached to set up a slush fund to compensate developing countries for the
'loss and damage' they experience due to climate change," writes Jesse Kline of
COP27. "Unsurprisingly, the deal was hailed as a huge win by the dictatorships,
kleptocracies and Polynesian micro-states that had been
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pushing for it."
* "The Liberal government has had nothing but contempt for the public
inquiry into its use of the Emergencies Act last winter, and Attorney General
David Lametti's testimony on Wednesday offered nothing to convince Canadians
otherwise," writes Carson Jerema. "Instead of elucidating the decision to
invoke the act and claim extraordinary emergency powers amid the Freedom Convoy
protests and blockades, Lametti repeatedly claimed attorney-client privilege
and
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avoided answering questions.
* "Like many Canadians, I have been watching the ongoing Public Order
Emergency Commission proceedings and coverage carefully," writes Vivian
Bercovici from Tel Aviv. "I often wonder how our federal leadership would
manage a true national threat or crisis, such as when Hamas hammered Israeli
civilians with thousands of rockets in May 2021. Or now, when people are blown
to bits at bus stops by terrorist bombs. When civilians are attacked with the
intent to murder and maim, that is a
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threat to national security. We need a dose of reality in Canada."
* "A recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has given
Canadians yet another reason to question the federal government’s relationship
with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN)," writes Jamie Sarkonak. "The
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decision tells us two things: that there are members of CAHN who are willing
to use the legal system to silence its critics, and that there is a
relationship between CAHN and the Antifa movement."
* Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's video on drug policy "is a call
to restore law and order and better protect some of Canada’s most vulnerable
citizens," writes Jamil Jivani. "It also gets to the heart of how
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a conservative approach to social policy could improve the lives of many
Canadians and start healing some of our social ills."
* "Strange but apparently true: workers in a business hit by an
unexpected death experienced a statistically significant increase in wages of
0.6 per cent in the following year. In the five years after the death the
'average cumulative effect on the earnings of incumbent workers' was close to
€3,300 ($4,586)," writes William Watson about a new study of the German labour
market that suggests that when a
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worker dies suddenly, the wages of his or her co-workers tend to go up.
* The Bank of Canada’s balance sheet is more than triple what it was when
the pandemic began, mainly because it has bought lots of government bonds,
write economists Steve Ambler, Thorsten Koeppl and Jeremy Kronick. Several
factors suggest it will stay big,
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they say.
* "The federal government recently announced a 30 per cent 'Clean
Technology Investment Tax Credit' to incentivize spending on a range of
clean-energy technologies, such as wind, solar and storage," writes Chris
Keefer. "Small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) are also covered, a bold step
for Ottawa, given its historically lukewarm positions on nuclear energy. But
CANDU technology, which underpins the entire existing Canadian nuclear sector,
is left out of the tax credit pending further consideration. This
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is bad news for Canadian climate action and the Canadian economy."
FROM ELSEWHERE
The CBC’s “pretendian”-tracker, Geoff Leo, was the subject of yesterday’s NP
Platformed essay. His latest piece, published yesterday afternoon,
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explores the harms that white pretendians cause.
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