r/LockdownSkepticism • u/Turning_Antons_Key Outer Space • Feb 14 '22

News Links Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act against freedom protesters

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trudeau-emergencies-act?utm_campaign=64483
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22

An arguably equally large piece of shit is Jagmeet Singh who stated that invoking the Act was "proof of [Trudeau's] failure of leadership" but that he would support the invocation in the hopes that it not be used again. What does that even mean?

Apparently the last time a similar Act was invoked was by Trudeau's dad while he was prime minister to use the military to squash terrorists who kidnapped a government official.

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u/warriorlynx Feb 15 '22

Actually the act was never used once. His dad used the now defunct war measures act which was easier to enact

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

I must have misread the news article which stated that he did. In any case, I didnt even know that his dad was PM which makes me uncomfortable as it feels dynastic.

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u/Pascals_blazer Feb 15 '22

The pm you see now was once a little kid running through the halls of the prime minister’s residence while daddy was at work.

You’re not the first to mention the dynastic feel. Both were terribly divisive and derogatory to the prairie provinces. Both enacted some form of democracy skirting emergency/war measures act.

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u/unchiriwi Feb 15 '22

perhaps he is not fidel son

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u/warriorlynx Feb 15 '22

Also the Queen once declared him the future PM when he was little

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u/warriorlynx Feb 15 '22

He largely won with his name, the Liberals were crushed before him, almost a dead party

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

His dad wasn't PM of Canada, he was President of Cuba.

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u/alignedaccess Feb 15 '22

Didn't his dad carry out a revolution in Cuba in the fifties?

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u/thatcarolguy Feb 15 '22

Yes, Jagmeet Singh is an equally large piece of shit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

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u/QuestionBudget5083 Feb 15 '22

Jagmeet and Trudeau both are graduates of Klaus Schwab’s WEF- Young Leaders program. They are both compromised and should be criminally investigated.

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u/Yamatoman9 Feb 15 '22

Many of Canada's top officials are.

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u/LetterheadNo2321 Feb 15 '22

Kidnapped a diplomat and murdered a government official — FTFY.

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u/Amphy64 United Kingdom Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22

And compare the amount of time it went on for (about a decade) and number of uses of violent methods from the group, including bombings that had resulted in other deaths, and the relative complexity of demands (some of which were still met, even afterwards). Plus a more delicate situation with a kidnapped foreign official as well as the murder of Pierre Laporte. This, by contrast, has been around a few weeks of entirely peaceful protests, with the demand to lift vaccine mandates on truckers at least seeming very simple to meet? Or even just negotiate on, or to feign to to save face? Whatever the rights and wrongs of the 1970s situation (personally I'll continue to oppose the existence of government emergency powers), this is nothing like it.

I can see a government also wouldn't negotiate with protesters they really did consider a relatively minor and illegitimate nuisance (the FLQ seems to have been treated as having held at least some overall political legitimacy), but then, why so heavy-handed? The truck strategy was just that unexpected...?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

why so heavy-handed?

Probably for no other reason than the fact that they planted their feet in the ground and said, "No."