Tirade on the Tyrannical Trio of Trudeau, Freeland and Lametti and the Truckers

And Justice Rouleau chooses partisanship over principles

Having said my piece on Commissioner Paul Rouleau’s ‘verdict’ on the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act from a review of his decision and his so called reasons for it, in my Intrepid Viking Substack section, I am now going on a more emotional tirade about it, in my Today’s Tirade section.  

I almost cried the day Justin Trudeau, in his smug and self-satisfied way, announced his government was invoking the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. That performance, as are all of his pronouncements, was bad enough to watch. But then, to watch Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, our Trudeau bobble-head and WEF hustler, visibly take delight in announcing that, not only was the government going to bring the full force of the police down on the protestors, it was also going to financially punish them by freezing their bank accounts, like they were terrorists. 

Then, we had our Justice Minister David Lametti, that soulless corpse, warn that if anyone had even donated money to the trucker’s cause through GoFundMe or GiveSendGo fundraising platforms, both of which had already been shut down through nefarious lies about the origins of the funding or the “violent” nature of Convoy participants, they too might have their account frozen. As I had given the truckers twenty bucks, via GiveSendGo, after our over the top trucker-aggrieved Ottawa Mayor, Jim Watson, did his dirty work to get GoFundMe shut down, I was worried. My husband and I even considered transferring the money out of my joint account with him, to his joint account with me—just in case. Alas, that would have been all for nought, because they shut down joint accounts too, and as we have since learned from Justice Rouleau, doing that was ‘unjust’, but also ‘unavoidable’. Ultimately it turned out that most donor accounts were not frozen, but Lametti's threat also had the unforeseen effect of many Canadians pulling their money out of the banks, which likely contributed to the government’s decision to suspend the enforcement of the Act just days after invoking it.   

I was stunned, however, at the ease with which Canadians, as a whole, accepted this move. Of course Trudeau’s well-paid public relations team, the legacy media didn’t seem to have any problem at all with the government arbitrarily seizing control of the finances of Canadian citizens without a court order or any due process. You know, something like the tyrannical dictatorship of Communist China would do to its citizens. Justice Rouleau didn’t have a problem with it either, dubbing the move ‘appropriate and effective’. Quite frankly anyone who agrees with this undemocratic and unconstitutional type of action, or Rouleau’s take on it, need to ask themselves how they would feel if their bank accounts were shut down if they were protesting something the government of the day–whatever its stripes–disagreed with. Is that really the kind of country you want to live in? Because it sure isn’t one we used to live in.

This move, on its own, should have had Canadians screaming from the rooftops and the media grilling Freeland, Trudeau and Lametti on the merits and legality of their decision, and how this was different from something Chinese President Xi Jinping might do to punish his citizens for disagreeing with his government’s policies. Or perhaps ask Trudeau if he, indeed, was taking a page from the book of the country he once told us he ‘so admired’. Take notice people, if a government gets away with something once, you can bet your bottom dollar that they won’t have to think twice about doing it again, and for far less a reason. 

So, upon hearing Rouleau’s ruling, which really didn’t surprise me, I cried once again for the Freedom Convoy, who was once again denied justice and vindication. But, now the slimy legacy media could give themselves a high five for seeing those ‘dirty low life truckers’ that they deliberately and gleefully smeared and denigrated with their lies, get what they deserve for daring to challenge their benefactor, JustinTrudeau. What a joke they are. Whatever happened to the media that gave the underdog a fair shake and in some cases the benefit of the doubt? Those days are long gone.

What I also found troubling was a National Post column, which cited a survey that said two thirds of Canadians thought the invocation of the Act was justified. I guess that is what one might expect when so many people relied on the biased CBC, CTV, Global TV,  the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star coverage of the Convoy and the Inquiry. It is also not clear who was surveyed, because if the majority were the laptop crowd in big cities who benefited, rather than suffered from the lockdowns, and looked down their noses at the truckers in the first place, that comes as no surprise. 

It is a sad Canada we now live in, when a government can punish its own citizens because they disagreed with it, by not only having their protest brutally shut down, but also seizing their finances and assets on a vindictive whim that is then justified by one of their own–that being card carrying Liberal Justice Paul Rouleau—in nothing more than a mock ‘show trial’. I still stand with the truckers and believe history will ultimately come down on their side, as the debacle of the government’s COVID response actions–from the failure of the lockdowns to the efficacy and safety of the vaccines and authoritariansim of the mandates—continue to be exposed and called into question. I say to the Freedom Convoy, "keep on trucking!" You were an inspiration and a ray of sunshine and hope to so many Canadians after more than two years of darkness and despair.  And, I say to Justice Rouleau, shame on you. You could have distinguished yourself by taking an honest and principled stand on how the government behaved. Instead you took the safe route to an ambassadorship or senate seat for your loyalty to a government that deserves none.