Today's News: Updates

Just a short one tonight. 

 First, about the POEC hearings:

A lot of people are looking really really bad in this inquiry and none of them are named Trudeau.

— Christopher Byrne 🇨🇦 (@CBinVAN) October 18, 2022

And some of what we are hearing is just BS:

You mean the OPP that was MIA during the occupation? That OPP?

— Deb Gartner (@deb_gartner) October 20, 2022

CSIS, on the other hand, says this:

CSIS worried convoy protests were being used as 'recruiting ground' for violent 'hardened elements' | National Post https://t.co/ZclNguxWZd

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne) October 19, 2022

An interesting point here:

Example of misleading headline but then read the actual article. :p

1) GoFundMe says yes foreigners donated.
2) GFM hacked & revealed foreign national donors.
3) CSIS doesn't define "foreign actors." <<--Typically refers to states or non-state actors.https://t.co/QZeOnnz7aQ

— Mubin Shaikh (@MrMubinShaikh) October 19, 2022

I know what was happening to people in Ottawa during the FluTruxKlan occupation was terrible -- here is an excellent list of everything the FluTruxKlan put them through.

But I think it was the border blockades that really caused the most trouble for the country as a whole -- senseless, chaotic, jeopardizing the economy, shattering international relations.

This was obvious. It was also obvious when the feds began to suddenly and belatedly get engaged. The province was behind until the Windsor border blockade threatened the economy. https://t.co/Ra3Ag9LSqf

— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) October 18, 2022

The border blockades ranged from 3 days at the Pacific Highway Crossing in Surrey BC, to 18 days at the Coutts, Alberta crossing, and included 6 days at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor Ontario and 6 days at Emerson, Manitoba. 

It was nuts, nonsensical -- even if Canada had been willing to let unvaccinated truckers into the country, the United States was not, so Canadian truckers would still have needed to get vaccinations before they could cross the border.  This made it impossible to negotiate an end to the blockades. No level of government - municipal, provincial, federal - could meet the FluTruxKlan demands because they didn't make any sense.

But nonsense never stopped the FluTruxKlan!

And it was the border blockades that really made this into an international story.

I was getting weary near the end of Mr Morris' testimony, but I thought he did refer to the entirety of convoy blockades & protests across Cda as being national security threats.

And last March, the OPPIB did say there were threats to national security.https://t.co/3VO1TOP29Q

— Lexy Cameron (@LexyCameron) October 20, 2022

Here is the OPP report from the next day, Feb. 8, which states the situation was a potential threat to sovereignty and national security. pic.twitter.com/UuleS48lu8

— Alex Ballingall (@aballinga) October 19, 2022

For those who are calling Doug Ford a "Liberal" for backing away from the Convoy just stop.

Ford has spent the entire Pandemic switching back & forth between kicking sand at @JustinTrudeau when it's convenient & riding his coattails to exploit JT's popularity. 😒 #CdnPoli

— DerekZoolander85 (@dzoolander85) October 18, 2022

Doug's decision to skip boarding the crazy train was the key to his re-election. The CPc ought to have paid attention.

— George Armstrong (@GWA1960) October 19, 2022

I almost feel sorry for the media. They are having a very hard time trying to lay the blame on Trudeau during the Inquiry into the Emergency Act. It’s so obvious that the Conservatives- Federal and Provincial- were supporting the convoy. #CdnMediaFailed

— Canteach (@canteach) October 18, 2022