From the Foreign Desk: Sir John A. MacDonald

CANADA, Citizen of Canuckstan - “Silence is Violence” was the mantra of the Black Lives Matter protesters last year. For the BLM protest in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out and took a knee to show his support. When churches were being burned across Canada to protest a “recently found mass grave” on the grounds of a former residential school, Trudeau called the church burnings “understandable”. We have since learned that there may be no mass grave at all.

Trudeau instituted a vaccine mandate for all truckers crossing the US border into Canada. He has further said that he will impose a vaccine mandate for any truckers crossing provincial borders. Now, the truckers have come to Ottawa to protest. Trudeau tarred them as racists, white supremacists and every other left wing boogeyman you can think of, and refused to meet with them. So they have stayed for almost two weeks. Trudeau has fled the capital. The Ottawa police have admitted that the protesters are calling the shots. A raid to try and move them out Sunday night has pretty much failed. Ottawa city council wants to put together a class action lawsuit against the trucker protesters. Tow truck companies are refusing to tow the protesters vehicles. GoFundMe tried to seize their funds.

And this is spreading. Coutts, Alberta, a major crossing on the US-Canada border is blocked. The police have been unable to move them and people have breached police lines to join them. There have been trucker protests in Vancouver (the mayor has told them to protest and get out), Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Sarnia, London (Ontario), Quebec City and Halifax. And those are only the places there have been some reports about. Farmers are joining.

I don’t think Trudeau will back down. He’s been made to look weak. This is a Prime Minister who simply cannot handle anyone disagreeing with him. It’s the way he’s been raised. So I think this will spread further. So far, it’s been largely peaceful. Air horns and honking are annoying but most protests are loud anyway. At this point the military is sitting things out and considering how far this has spread, it’s unlikely they could stop it anyway. 67 000 troops in the entire military, counting the Air Force and Navy. What will they do, try to put the protesters under the guns of HMCS Charlottetown? I’m not sure they could get it up the Ottawa river. There have been 4 arrests in Ottawa and apparently 2 of them were Ottawa citizens threatening the protesters. Compare that to Occupy Wall Street or the CHOP zone.

I hope this will spread the to the US. Get your convoy together sooner rather than later. Remind your neighbours that while silence is violence, air horns are anarchy.