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The Reason Why Trudeau Relinquished his Emergency Powers
As creator and chief content provider for the Ludington Torch, my general approach has been to focus more on the local stuff rather than statewide and nationwide issues simply because local issues influence us more in our daily lives and that we can influence them should we decide to do so. Since our inception in 2009, however, we have never discouraged debate and discussion over national and international issues and welcome our members to introduce our mostly-local readership to controversial wide-ranging issues, especially if they have a local impact of any type.
Late last night, we found out that Ukraine was invaded, something you are familiar with doing if you've ever played the boardgame Risk, an action potentially leading to intervention efforts by American forces, led by an administration looking to distract attention away from a concatenation of failed policies. It has also distracted from another, closer international issue that came up over this last month in the nation to our north, Canada, and an action initiated yesterday that was largely ignored by media chasing another tidbit.
As you probably know, a protest of government medical mandates under the name the Freedom Convoy consisting mostly of big rigs rolled across Canada and settled finally in Canada's capital, Ottawa for three weeks. The peaceful protest irked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the majority of Parliament who were complicit in keeping medical mandates imposed on regular Canadians, preventing truckers from crossing the US border to ply their trades unless they were vaccinated.
On Friday, authorities launched the largest police operation in Canadian history, arresting a string of Ottawa protesters and increasing that pressure on Saturday until the streets in front of Parliament were clear. Eventually, police arrested at least 191 people and towed away 79 vehicles.
Trudeau invoked emergency powers last week and lawmakers affirmed the powers late this Monday. The emergencies act allows authorities to declare certain areas as no-go zones. It also allows police to freeze truckers' personal and corporate bank accounts and compel tow truck companies to haul away vehicles. A parliamentary committee was told Tuesday that 206 personal and corporate accounts with holdings of more than $6.1 million had been frozen.
Quietly, two days after Parliament's affirmation, Trudeau revoked the act early on Wednesday before the invasion of Ukraine hit the news.
"The situation is no longer an emergency, therefore the federal government will be ending the use of the emergencies act," Trudeau said. "We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are sufficient to keep people safe."
Those following the storyline might wonder why Trudeau, who has been compared to Fidel Castro and Adolph Hitler in his rhetoric and response to the popular pacific protest, would let go of his emergency powers so quickly. One cannot find the answer to that question in Trudeau's comments, nor the various corporate media that have noticed and reported on the topic, such as NPR, CNN, The Washington Post, ABC News, etc. The journalists for those agencies almost universally refer derisively to the Freedom Convoy and its actions, while portraying the prime minister as a benevolent presence keeping the peace in Ottawa and voluntarily giving up the strong emergency powers he invoked to protect Canadians from themselves.
Most of us are smart enough to recognize that Trudeau, who has accepted the mantle of a tyrant over the last three weeks in his actions and words, would not voluntarily give up such powers unless his political career depended upon it. And it turns out the stakes were even more stark when you consider what the Canadian government was able to do with the bank accounts of individuals holding their money in Canadian banks.
A significant number of Canadians and other investors in Canadian banks responded to the abuse of power by taking their money out of those banks. This disinvestment was so widespread that outages occurred in the systems; some banks went offline to stem the run on the banks that was occurring after Trudeau played his hand. The bank runs inspired by Trudeau was efficiently and effectively destroying Canada's financial rating worldwide as investors lost confidence in their banking system-- and for good cause since investors could find their savings arbitrarily frozen by the whims of a tyrant.
When a country's banking system gets decimated, their economy and their government will soon follow in the ruination. Trudeau's declaration of emergency powers will have lasting negative repercussions to the government of Canada, perhaps even longer lasting than those of the freedom seekers of the Freedom Convoy. This will never be admitted by Trudeau or the insane Parliament members who affirmed his idiocy for the ages. Nor will the in-the-tank media that props up such dictators and pokes fun at peaceful popular protests demanding their basic civil liberties.
The relevancy this incident has with those living across the border here in Michigan is important to note. Our federal Department of Homeland Security has the power to do the same thing Trudeau did by the recent declaration calling any who cause concerns to be raised about our government "domestic terrorists", and in many ways has already started incremental implementation of normalizing the weaponization of financial/social credit mechanisms.
Had Trudeau been a smarter tyrant, he would have adopted his mechanisms incrementally, as America's government has been doing. Watch how that proceeds as our own freedom convoy begins.
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