Reaction & Commentary
Invoked what’s known as the emergencies act in order to deal with the trucker protest now in case you’ve never heard of it which if you’re not a canadian that’s very likely the emergencies act was passed back in 1988 and it is the successor to the previous war measures
Act essentially it gives the federal government extraordinary powers to deal with things like the trucker convoy it’s very similar to the government declaring martial law and this emergencies act has actually never been invoked in canada before this is quite literally the first time however its predecessor the war
Measures act it has been invoked three times in canadian history once during the first world war another time during the second world war and then a third time during the 1970s quebec separatist movement and now 50 years later we are seeing canada use this playbook again here’s specifically what justin trudeau
Said yesterday when he announced the invocation of the emergencies act the federal government has invoked the emergencies act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations i want to be very clear the scope of these measures will be time limited geographically targeted as well as reasonable and proportionate
To the threats they are meant to address now what does this actually mean in practice what powers does the federal government now have and to start with the federal government can now do almost anything including sending in the military to deal with the truckers although yesterday when he was making
The announcement justin trudeau specifically said that he was not going to call in the troops just yet although frankly he did not rule it out in the near future here’s specifically what he said on this front we will not and cannot allow these illegal and dangerous activities to continue however we are
Not using the emergencies act to call in the military and so what will his government actually be doing now that they have all this power well it appears that to start with their actions will be twofold first of all justin trudeau said that the local police will be given more
Tools as well as more resources to impose fines as well as to imprison protesters who are blocking roads or blocking infrastructure and then secondly the government laid out a plan to attack the protesters financially specifically banks can now regulate and restrict funding that supports the blockades drivers who are using their
Trucks to block the roads they can have their corporate bank accounts frozen and their vehicle insurance suspended and then also the government will target the crowdfunding services and the payment systems that the protesters were using to gather funding and at that last point that is i believe really worth highlighting because the trudeau
Government is now authorizing the banks throughout the entire country to unilaterally freeze people’s accounts on the basis of suspicion alone there is no court order which is required and the banks can do so with legal impunity here’s in fact what this new law which applies to personal accounts corporate
Accounts and it covers all forms of transactions including even cryptocurrencies here’s what this new law says quote a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order banks will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in good faith and then
Furthermore and perhaps even more worrying is the fact that when the trudeau government’s finance minister announced this form of financial warfare she tacitly compared the peaceful protesters with terrorists here’s specifically what she said we are broadening the scope of canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so they cover
Crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use this is about following the money this is about stopping the financing of these illegal blockades meaning that all of the grassroots funding for these protests is now being targeted as terrorist financing with the ultimate goal behind this at least i imagine being to
Essentially punish and starve the protesters so that they are forced to go home here’s in fact how canada’s deputy prime minister bluntly put it if your truck is being used in these illegal blockades your corporate accounts will be frozen the insurance on your vehicle will be suspended and the banks have
Already started to comply for instance td bank which is the largest bank in canada in terms of assets they’ve already started to freeze multiple bank accounts totaling over 1.4 million canadian dollars and most of that money it came from the original gofundme campaign that was raising money for the
Truckers however as we mentioned in a previous episode gofundme wound up closing that campaign and then another company one that’s called give send go replace them as the main fundraising for the convoy now to this day on that new platform the organizers have now raised close to 10 million u.s dollars however
Given the state of the situation in canada right now it might be very difficult for that money to actually be dispersed to the protesters that is just the reality of fighting back against the system because just as an example you might remember that back in 2020 when
Kamala harris was donating money to bail out blm rioters well that was labeled as activism however if you yourself donate money to a peaceful drug protest well that is on the contrary labeled as terrorism it really brings to mind at least to my mind that quote from voltaire which says
This quote if you want to know who controls you look at who you are not allowed to criticize regardless though getting back to the topic of the emergencies act late last night the canadian civil liberties association they came out and condemned justin trudeau for invoking this act in a
Statement that they released they claimed that the canadian federal government did not meet the necessary threshold that’s actually necessary in order to invoke something as serious and as essentially martial law here’s specifically what they said in a statement the federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke
The emergencies act the emergencies act can only be invoked when a situation seriously threatens the ability of the government of canada to preserve the sovereignty security and territorial integrity of canada when the situation cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of canada governments regularly deal with difficult situations
And do so using powers granted to them by democratically elected representatives emergency legislation should not be normalized it threatens our democracy and our civil liberties furthermore it’s also worth mentioning that not all the provinces agree with this approach in fact prior to invoking the emergencies act justin trudeau held
A meeting with the leaders of canada’s different provinces and afterwards the premiers of alberta manitoba quebec as well as saskatchewan they all came out in opposition to trudeau’s decision here’s in fact what those respective premier said and by the way just for your reference a premiere of a province
In canada is equivalent to a governor of a state here in america and here’s what they said in alberta the premier said quote we have the legal powers that we need we have the operational resources that we need to enforce and i think at this point for the federal government to
Reach in over top of us without offering anything in particular would frankly be unhelpful i’m concerned that there’s a certain kind of person that if the federal government proceeds with this who will be further inflamed and that could lead to prolongation of some of these protests then in manitoba the
Premier said this quote in my view the sweeping effects and signals associated with the never before used emergencies act are not constructive here in manitoba where caution must be taken against overreach and unintended negative consequences i am not currently satisfied the emergencies act should be applied to manitoba winnipeg situation
Is dramatically different from the one in ottawa then over in saskatchewan the premier added this quote the illegal blockades must end but police already have sufficient tools to enforce the law and clear the blockades as they did over the weekend in windsor therefore saskatchewan does not support the trudeau government invoking the
Emergencies act and then lastly the premier of quebec said this i was very clear we do not want a federal state of emergency on the territory of quebec now what’s interesting to note here is that while these four provinces rejected the emergencies act mr doug ford who is the
Premier of ontario which is not only the most populous province in canada but it’s also where the capital city of ottawa is located well he publicly endorsed it however while he supported justin trudeau’s decision to invoke the emergencies act he simultaneously announced that his province is ending the covet mandates in his province
Including the vaccine passport system here’s what he said effective march the first we intend to eliminate capacity limits in all indoor public settings at the same time and at the recommendation of dr moore we will lift proof of vaccination requirements for all settings and with that change that
He announced over in ontario it makes it the seventh province which has announced an end to their covet mandates since the start of the trucker convoy now the protesters themselves they seem to be fairly committed to riding out the storm and facing whatever challenges come their way from the federal government
Here’s in fact what one of the protesters told the daily mail newspaper it’s pretty sad now that the government can shut down the economy for two years and small businesses completely lose their livelihoods but the second we start affecting the government and the big businesses and big corporations is
When they put their foot down and when they start having issues it’s freezing out here but we got to deal with it if we want any change this is not over this will not be over until we get our rights and our freedoms back here and so we
Will just have to wait and see how all this plays out which naturally will have reverberations well beyond the borders of canada given the fact that similar protests are now being planned around the entire world and then lastly in ending this segment i would like to show
You a relatively rare clip of justin trudeau from a few years ago wherein he reveals what his favorite country is and why take a look with sun tv watching for any slip he was asked which country he most admired and referred to china there’s a level of admiration i actually have for china
Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them uh to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to go green as fast as we need to start you know investing in solar i mean there is a flexibility that i know stephen harper must dream about of having a
Dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted uh that i find quite interesting if you’d like to read more about all the developments that we discussed with the tracker convoy as well as everything that we discussed in regard to the emergencies act we’ll i’ll throw all those links into the
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Move on over and talk about immigration about five days ago a major government agency specifically the u.s citizenship and immigration services agency they made a rather you can say significant change to their official mission statement and the reason that this is critical is because it reflects the new priorities of america’s immigration
System and so in order to unpack what this change actually means let’s look at the old mission statement and compare it to the new one and so under the previous mission statement i’ll put it up on screen the u.s immigration agency was described as quote administering the nation’s lawful immigration system
Safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting americans securing the homeland and honoring our values okay so that was the old statement so now let’s compare that to the new statement which is just updated by the biden administration here it is up on screen
Quote the u.s citizenship and immigration services upholds america’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness integrity and respect for all we serve and so notice something critical there in that updated mission statement nowhere is there a mention of the nation’s immigration laws anything about protecting americans and
Or securing the homeland all those elements were removed and just for your reference by the way the u.s citizenship and immigration services agency sits underneath the department of homeland security it has about 19 000 employees and this is the agency which is supposed to be overseeing the legal immigration
Into the united states and the current director of this particular agency miss urjudo who by the way was an outspoken critic of president trump and she welcomed this change in mission statement saying that a quote reflects the inclusive character of both our country and this agency and she added
That the united states is and will remain a welcoming nation that embraces people from across the world who seek family reunification employment or professional opportunities and humanitarian protection now on the flip side however mr ken cuccinelli who is the previous director of this immigration agency under president trump
And he offered what you can call an opposing view in an email that he sent to us here at the epic times here’s what he said regarding this change in language quote when we’ve got an invasion at the border this is what the united states citizenship and immigration services agency chooses to
Spend their time on this is just another example of left-wing busybodies shirking their duty to americans and not protecting our border and likewise senator jim risch who’s a republican from idaho he offered some you can say choice words regarding this change here’s what he wrote on twitter with
This move the biden administration is signifying that lawful immigration protecting americans and securing our homeland are no longer its priorities now it is worth noting that this shift in language is not an outlier but instead it seems to be just the latest in a trend of such changes that we’ve
Been seeing under the biden administration in fact just last year top officials within the administration they ordered all immigration agencies within the us to stop using certain terms in order to be what they described more inclusive and so back in february of last year in february of 2021 joe
Biden signed an executive memo ordering all immigration agencies within the entire country including ice border patrol as well as this u.s citizenship and immigration services agency to change their language and to give you an example of what he actually meant by that well instead of using the terms
That they’ve been using such as illegal alien or undocumented alien officials have now been referring to them as undocumented non-citizens undocumented individuals or simply as migrants now as to how this change in language has actually solved the problem of illegal immigration well that is not exactly clear however here was how the acting
Director of border patrol explained it when this change was made again back in february quote we enforce our nation’s laws while also maintaining the dignity of every individual with whom we interact the words we use matter and will serve to further confer that dignity to those in our custody however regardless of what
The federal government refers to them as the number of foreign people who are illegally crossing into the united states has increased dramatically over the past year in fact it actually broke an all-time record in the year 2021 here’s a graph and notice how it showed up last year to all-time new highs and
Along with the general number of border crossings shooting up according to mr rodney scott who is a former u.s border patrol chief he said that this poses a serious threat to america’s national security here’s in fact a short clip of an interview between him and the capitol
Report which is a phenomenal show on our sister media ncd and the cartels are using those large numbers of illegal aliens coming across the border not just to make money on the illegal alien smuggling but to create controllable gaps in border security they simply overwhelm agents with those massive numbers and that
Creates other areas where there’s no law enforcement at all and that’s where they’re bringing the narcotics the criminal aliens the people that want to avoid arrest for whatever reason and they’re just pouring across that will this is a crisis and it is real but in the last few years we’ve seen
Arrests from countries other than mexico surpass the traditional arrests from mexico and before i retired last august we’d arrested people from 150 different countries from around the world uh to include many of those that sponsor are known to sponsor and support terrorism you just can’t have an open border like
That and then try to fool yourself into thinking we have any level of safety or security it’s not just about economic migrants it’s a real threat to the united states if you’d like to learn more about what’s happening over at the u.s southern border or about the recent
Changes in mission statement over at that citizenship agency i’ll throw all those links into the description box below this video for you to check out and again all i ask in return is that if you haven’t already take a quick moment to smash smash smash that like button
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That’s linked to the chinese military is both gathering america’s dna but also providing coveted test kits here’s the trailer we basically know the motivations of the chinese communist party they haven’t really kept it secret they have this strategy of unrestricted warfare specifically it was a fertility clinic which was located within
Reasonable driving distance of six american military bases so the idea was probably the ccp wants to own this fertility clinic and then all the soldiers and you know that they’re married and whatever they’re coming there for fertility or for um fraternity testing and things like that
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