A few suggestions 1. When he supported the convoy, Polievre became unelectable.2. People with a grade 8 science background decided that they were more informed than health care professionals.3. First evidence of members of MAGA in the US tried to influence Canadian politics.4. Convoy protestors terrorized Ottawa residents for weeks.
Unruly, undemocratic, creating hell and sleeplessness for thousands of downtown Ottawa citizens. They were all Pollievre Conservatives who were involved in anti-Canadian seditious behaviour. Every single participant should have spent some time in jail.
Should remember that the Canadian government is very willing to break the law and use tax payer money to fund the legal process afterwards and lose. The Federal Court of Appeal recently upheld a landmark ruling: the government’s use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 was unconstitutional. This is a massive legal defeat for the feds. The court found they failed to meet the legal threshold for a "national emergency" and lacked evidence of a serious security threat. Crucially, the court ruled that freezing bank accounts without a warrant violated Section 8 Charter rights. The Liberal government used the Act as a shortcut for political convenience, the Supreme Court said its use was illegal, these court rulings are binding law. The Government will do this again at some point as they don't have to pay for 4 years of court battles to lose, you do, every taxpayer in the country paid to lose
I remember I had to take down my Canadian flag for a while because its image had become so thoroughly desecrated by the so-called "truckers" and the F-Trudeau trucker wannabe's.I agree with KB, this was sedition. Mostly orchestrated by the American alt right.
@GM Not true. I had been a CPC supporter for decades. Never voted for Trudeau. You are, though, partially correct. I am now fully aligned with the Carney Liberals.
How should the freedom convoy be remembered? For me it was a revalation. I thought we as a nation were better than that. It should be relegated to the ash heap of history as national embarrassment.
Not only did we pay to defend the losing side twice, but we also paid to prosecute the organizers of the protest in the longest trial for the heinous crime of “mischief”. I won’t deny nearby residents were incredibly inconvenienced during the protest, but the narrative spread by its opposition, that it was an attempt to overthrow the government and was funded by foreign interests, is false and was proven false during the inquiry into the invocation of the EA. 4 years later, this lie is used to defend a position that is simply untrue.
I don't like the way it was handled by the federal government but that does not nullify the behaviour of the truckers who should have been immediately arrested and detained.
Trump didn't cause our weak economy. The last 10 years of poor leadership here did. The government said there is no business case for our exports, and put small businesses under financial strain by making them stay closed for over a year. What outcome were they expecting? Yes, the tarrifs are unfortunate, but we never should have had all of our eggs in one basket.
Trudeau and his lackies need to be jailed, what he did was illegal. The courts have said so twice now.Wasn't it Japan that charged and jailed their PM recently for him using illegal emergency act and it was for only a couple hours he locked his nation down.The Freedom Convoy stood up for our legally rights, even if some believe diffrent. Just waiting for the the jailing of Justin Trudeau.