Canada's Trucker Protest: A fair and objective analysis
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- The Ottawa trucker protest captured the world's attention in February of 2022. Here is my attempt at a fair and honest summary.
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My man just wanted to enjoy his vacation and everyone was treating him like if he was the foreign ambassador of Canada.
He kind of is the foreign ambassador of Canada.
He is
He literally is lmao
He is
I mean basically
>JJ goes on vacation
>Canada erupts into mass protest
>Russia invades Ukraine
Makes ya think
Coincidence?
And the Queen got covid.
@Hello there Yes, I know about Crimea and Donbas
"But when the world needed him most, he vanished."
This is like when you learn that the rest of the class had a pizza party the day you were home sick
...but the pizza was plague-flavored and most of the people at the party were gatecrashers from the local asylum.
legit happened to me
Pizza parties are vastly overrated.
More like the school caught fire the day you were home sick.
When I was 11 I had an educational psychologist appointment in the city and my entire class took an unplanned trip to botanical gardens. Devastated.
the weapons seized "at the border" were admitted by the mayor and other authorities to be unconnected to the protest and were actually seized at a house and not at the actual protest.
This should have been highlighted in the video. Also, frozen bank accounts, retroactive punishment for something legal at the time it occurred.
"Fair and objective analysis"
Law enforcement lying about a seizure? Who would've thought?
@Seaghán Ó Laodhcha do you have any evidence for your baseless claims? Burden of proof is on the accuser.
@Seaghán Ó Laodhcha that the weapons seized were apart of the protest.
That last poll figure about Canadians desiring a more Authoritarian leadership is incredibly striking to me. The danger of that philosophy can't be understated (I can imagine similar polls coming up before the election of Duterte in The Philippines). It also leads me to question where these polls are being done geographically. Being from Saskatchewan, such a mindset is hard to grasp, and, while present here, I would imagine a 180° shift in attitude towards that proposition. It makes one wonder where they do these polls (and understanding the majority of Canadians live between Ontario and Quebec)
Polls are terrible.
The "I luv big guv" mindset is pretty prevalent in Europe too, which is unsurprising considering they're the ones who invented communism and fascism, and probably have suffered the most from them both.
polls are meant to influence public opinion, not reflect it.
"Majority (71%) would vote for a strong-willed person to enforce law and
order
Seven-in-ten (71%) Canadians say that regardless of their politics, they would vote
for a strong-willed person to have enforceable law and order. Those most likely to feel
this way reside in the province of Québec (86%), followed by those living in British
Columbia (74%), both in Ontario (66%) and Alberta (66%), Atlantic Canada (63%),
and Manitoba/Saskatchewan (62%).
Those least likely to hold this view (29%) can be found primarily in both
Manitoba/Saskatchewan (38%) and Atlantic Canada (37%), followed by those living in
both Alberta (34%) and Ontario (34%), British Colombia (26%), and Québec (14%)." I think the source J.J. is citing is this-static1.squarespace.com/static/5a17333eb0786935ac112523/t/620f068a2eeea94ec5b8bee0/1645151885613/Shaken+to+the+core+18+02+22.pdf
The end of the document describes (a bit) on how the data is collected.
@@TheAmericanPrometheus Meanwhile the US pioneered crony capitalism and had its people suffer under that system, too. Shame it's still being perpetuated.
Personally I'm pretty centred and indifferent to the protest, however I think freezing bank accounts is an extremely dangerous precedent for JT to set, big no no
Its beyond terrifying that in a democracy a government can do that to its own citizens
Pretty sure thats been legal in the US for a very long time just that nobody in the US cares
A lot of people on the left don't realize this, if there was a government that opposes and are hellbent on shutting down the Climate or Indigenous protests, they very much will now look for an excuse to do the same. To an extent, Law Enforcement already does that. I disagree with the trucker protest, but we all have our rights to protest and have a different opinion in this country. This is very dangerous for everyone and I feel not enough people are seeing past their partisanship.
Would you think differently if that bank account was feeding funds to drug traffickers?
@@thetruthhurts6652 no government should not have any power over any bank account period.
A strong authoritarian government sounds great when they're on your side- trouble is, when you disagree with them you no longer have a say.
That's what all these far left, far right people never seem to get. You are just pawns, the ideology you preach, once taken root, would quickly target you as an enemy of the sate.
It’s a good thing Canada is a liberal democracy isn’t it
@@Superbl0bby Not very liberal if they can freeze your bank account if they don't agree with the protest you side on
@@Superbl0bby Yeah, freezing bank account of people who politically disagree with you is *totally* democratic.
@@221Prohunter Well maybe they shouldn't park their truks in my way so I can go to work without dealing with their BS. Forced to get the vaccine or not, just don't make it my problem. 🙄
How are you really not going to mention the draconian measures that Trudeau took in targeting the bank accounts and financial welfare of the truckers AND anyone who supported their cause??? This component of the Trucker Protest Saga is the most significant Canadian Political Event of at least the last decade.
JJ always seems to leave out the important parts. "Objective and fair" is what he says....translation, "I'm a liberal pretending to be in the middle"
@@loganmaccallum1500 muh oppression
@@greasemonk4576 Freezing bank accounts isnt oppression? Good, maybe it can happen to you someday, and you will have no room to complain :^)
@@loganmaccallum1500 Exactly
@@xmtsmtsx hardly.
The fact that 60+% of Canadians were in favour of using the military to clear out the protesters is wild to me. I'm left leaning and was against the trucker convoy, but using the military to clear them out is a terrible idea for many reasons.
Sadly, it didn't surprise me at all. Now, what I'm curious about is if those numbers were for this protest in particular, or for all obstructive protests in general.
Don't know about that
The Army has a thing called a "tracked recovery vehicle"
I've seen those things drag a broken Leopard bridgelayer tank (65 tons?)
Up a muddy 30 degree slope....Sideways
So....if they can't pull a truck out of that pile
They can push them out
And if they can't pull...or push them free
They'll just flatten them down until they can drive over them
So...are you going to move your truck
Or will we have to help you move it?
THAT'S how you deploy the Military to "aid the civil power"
It isn´t suprising when you realise that a lot of Canadians associate the people of the trucker Convoy with the "far right"
I agree. The "protestors" were mostly just a bunch of bored, scared, angry adult toddlers stamping their feet over being asked to take some responsibility, and that's how they needed to be treated. Sending in the military makes it look as though they're a unified militia with an actual point to make, and needlessly escalates the situation into something that looks scarily like the beginning of a civil war. I know that *I* don't want military vehicles and personnel patrolling my neighbourhood, or anywhere else civilians live, even if they're there to keep us safe. This stupid protest isn't worth it.
@@BulletWarden Good point!
Considering how much noise there is to parse through online when it comes to anything remotely political, I really think channels like these are one of the most valuable things one could find online.
Thank you my friend!
Agreed. Amidst the Ukraine situation, the UA-cam channel "Good Times Bad Times" made update videos that I found to be _extremely_ helpful.
Do you have any recommendation for similar YTers? JJ has linked NFKRZ in relation to Russia and it looks great, but I'm always on a lookout for more.
@@AManOnline. Glad I'm not the only one who's found them super useful. There are times I think they may be a tad optimistic, but it's hard to blame them for that all things considered. And who knows, maybe I'm the one who's overly pessimistic. That would be nice.
@@xKalisto TYT, Beau of the Fifth Column, David Packman. The majority Report, The Rational National (This guy is Canadian.) Once the algorithm figures you out it will bring them to you.
In the UK a little while back there was a group called 'Insulate Britain', an environmental movement. Although people generally agreed with what they were wanting the tactics really turned most folk off. They would block the motorways around London, gluing themselves to the roads, forming ques of traffic for miles. As I said it pissed a lot of ordinary folk off and people were more than happy to see hard force used against them in order to end it. We're all freedom and democratic lovers until something gets in our way.
In Germany we basically had the situation with a movement called the last generation who where also a anti climate change and pro environment group who demanded a law against food waste. And the same happened here. People who proclaimed to be pro freedom and anti establishment suddenly wanted the police and drivers to violently take them away. Yeah everyone can become hypocrite If it suddenly affects oneself.
yeah its kinda wild to see how people are now supporting street blockades
before this caravan I always say things like "I would run over these fuckers if i saw them" or "every single one of them should be sued for all their worth" and not that it's for removing government restrictions for vaccinations people are supporting it
maybe not the exact correlation there but something to note
Didn’t a similar thing happen with miner strikes back when Thatcher was Prime Minister?
To be fair, most of us don't have the luxury of not having these sorts of disruptions entail significant consequences to our lives. People can lose jobs, money, sleep or quality time with family if protest disruptions are severe. At some level it stops being a minor inconvenience. The same issue is present in many transport strikes, when southern rail was strike ridden for weeks lots of commuters were forced to quit their jobs and applicants were rejected because they lived on the network.
Especially when they started blocking trains literally sustainable transport
I'm left leaning Québécois. Personally, I feel many of us Québécois were against the emergency powers since it felt unjustified. While I approved at the time the COVID measures, the barrage of insults and condescending tones the Trudeau government rained on the protesters made many feel that Mr. Trudeau never even bothered using diplomacy or even try diffusing tension and went straight to being openly hostile and even insulting them. It made people feel like the federal government escalated things way too quickly without having exhausted all other options. The group was mostly peaceful yet compared to January 6th and proud boys for some reason. I guess the memory of the October crisis lingers in a sense too. The memory of that time is still very contrevetisal in Québec to this day. The Québec provincial government asked the federal government help dealing with a violent faction of the separatist movement but most here feel that the government went too far and didn't properly differentiate the violent from non-violent segments of the movement. Trudeau the Elder's phrase "just watch me" is celebrated in the rest of Canada as a show of a strong leader but here it is often described as Canada flirting with chauvinistic authoritarianism. Independently of the interpretation one can have of those events, I think that's why the Bloc Québécois and Québec in general was a bit uneasy with the whole situation. It's not because of a need for revenge against English Canada. Our history gives a perspective on the consequences of using force to deal with a political movement Canadian elites don't like.
I'm curious, as a Quebec person do you embrace Canadian identity or exclusively identify as a Quebecois
It's because the protesters were proud boys. Again, they carried Confederate flags and Nazi symbolism. They have been promoting Nazi ideology. They support Trump. What more evidence do you need? They are basically the proud boys.
@@eugenekoh8815 I’m also a Quebecois, and I do consider myself a Canadian, although my political views rest much closer to Quebec’s ideology than Canada overall. I don’t like the division between Quebec and the rest of Canada in the mind of a lot people around me, I feel like it’s not productive and is just a way to fuel our oppression complex
I'm sorry but when and why would you consider diplomacy about this?
Exaggerating things for clarity, if a theoretical group of people who called for the immediate concentration and murder of the elderly population of Canada, would diplomacy be in place? Should we compromise with them? Or is it fair to tell them to get f***ed since we are _not_ about to murder a bunch of people.
Whether you agree with me or not, that's irrelevant. As much as I think this gang of scientifically illiterate idiots deserved no diplomacy, it's Trudeau's gov't. opinion that matters. Whether you like it or not, whether for personal gain or not, Trudeau has taken a pro-mandates and pro-masks stance, likely backed by common sense. That's what Trudeau thought the truckers were, elderly murderers. He did not hesitate to throw and hurl insults like its candies in halloween.
TLDR If you knew anything about Trudeau by seeing what he's been doing since the beginning of the pandemic you would have _no_ reason to be surprised or expect something else other than immediate counterattacks to what _he_ sees as a bunch of lunatics, whether you and I agree is irrelevant, that's what Trudeau picked.
@@emilyjohnson4421 How did you feel seeing your peacefull protestors in France, unarmed, no trucks just walking along a canal, protesting vaccine mandates and passports being unleashed on unprovoked with tear gas ????
Now the only live stream video of that event, RuPTLY a russian company based in germany has had its videos pulled from youtube.
BTW do you still think the vaccine protects anyone else but the recipient ?????
If so time to do a little more study.
I'm surprised you didn't go into the bank account freezing of people who donated to the convoy legally before the emergency acts. And continued to target their bank accounts afterward.
@Nich Hanson That was really non issue, because they only froze that accounts of people that were directly involved with the Occupation and Blockade. There was a Conservative MP that made an allegation that couldn't be verified, by anyone!!!
Many that donated, had their personal information spread all over the Internet, when GiveSendGo was hacked and the Hackers posted their info online for the World to see. That had nothing to do with Government that was just the usual Hacker mischief.
Update: The Conservatives reminded members not to make false or misleading statements associated with the Bank Account issue, because it would weaken their position.
@@tonespeaks - Incorrect - They even froze people's accounts of others that were not related to the protest - like one of the organizers ex wife and that is just one example
@@paintballthieupwns do you know her name?? People say things, so simple research should be able to confirm if it is true or not. Lots of people say lots of things, doesn't make it true. So let's spread truths not rumors.
@@crimson7262 I agree Emergencies Act was an extreme measure and that Public Inquiry will exposed if it was justified or not. Just so you know, Banks don't need an a Court Order to freeze accounts. If they feel that the activity is suspicious, they (The Bank) can freeze your account on the spot (without Court Order). The Bank Act gives them this duty and the rights to do so, this has been on the books for many years. Insurance Companies can terminate insurance on vehicles that they feel are involved in criminal activity, without a Court Order, at anytime, that is in the policy. I should add that his policy is also similar to policies in the United States and in many other countries around the World.
Money blocked by via Public Fundraising was done with Court Orders, from Ontario Government and a Class Action suit (by a residences of Ottawa) launched against the Freedom Convoy, who went to Court and got an injunction to have the assets of the Freedom Convoy frozen.
As for using Hacked information, that is not illegal since the information is now Public. It would be illegal if they assisted in the hacking of information.
As for the using the Emergencies Act, the main justification was to allow Police Forces from around Canada to be involved in the Operation without having to get individual approvals, which would have taken some time. It was to allow FINTRAC to monitoring financial transaction via Crowdfunding systems and crypto, which it didn't have in its mandate and there was also issues with demanding that Tow Trucks remove vehicles on command and etc. This is totally not an overreach at any level. Most of the issues used in the Emergencies act are covered by different levels of Government and Law. The Emergencies allows for certain laws to be amended to cover areas, that where not foreseen when those laws were created. For example Crowdfunding sites were not part of the FINTRACs mandate, so they had not authority to monitor financial traffic.
@@crimson7262 I read your reply and must say, that you might have misunderstood the Emergencies Act and who it was directed towards. This was directed to those that where not peaceful. So far no peaceful protesters has been caught up by the Emergencies Act. There were a lot of people that participated in the Protests, the Government focused on those that were not peaceful. Not sure you understand the law, but the Occupation was deemed illegal, by a Judge, who issued an injunction. But the Government didn't need a Judge to do so, because the Trucks were blocking a street, there was no question that was illegal, from the start. What many people don't know is that you need a permit to block streets, you can't just do that on your own legally. The fact that you would even question that Occupation as being legal is very telling.
The Freezing of Public Fundraising was done by Court Order, both the Ontario Government and some Citizens of Ottawa, where granted that injunction in court. The Occupation of a Street is illegal pretty much everywhere in Canada, actually in the World for that matter. Not sure why that would come as a surprise to anyone. Those affected by the illegal act have the right to hold those that cause damage, to pay for damages caused. This is basic law and much of the World would find damages. FINTRAC didn't find any evidence because they don't have the mandate to track financial transactions within Crowdfunding sites. The Blockades and Occupation, was clearly coordinated, this was confirmed by the Organizers, when they held a Press Conference stating that they would not stop, till their demands were met.
As for using the Hacked information, because the Blockade and Occupation are illegal acts, anything in support of that is considered an illegal act. That is called Aiding and abetting, so contributing to an illegal act is illegal, the Police / Government can use that information as long as they didn't commit illegal acts it gathering that information. It should be noted that once the Protest turned into illegal acts, it turned from being lawful to illegal. When GiveSendGo setup a funding system, it was well known that the the protest was now something illegal. Anyone that provided support to the organization, was aiding and abetting. People have a duty to know where their money is going and who it is going to. Not to mention that the Hack of GiveSendGo wasn't done by the Police or Government. If people lost their jobs and were harassed for contributing, that isn't the Government's fault. GiveSendGo is an US company and their data was stored in the US. People should have known better than to send money via a company that didn't have a good reputation and to an organization that was involved in illegal acts.
As for invoking the Emergencies Act, the Government has an easy case here. The fact that FINTRAC was given additional powers to track Crowdfunding sites and Crypto, things that were not in their mandate. The fact that they needed Police from around the country to be given authority, wasn't available to them under current law. The Blockades of vital Border crossings across the country and Occupation in the Capital is more than enough evidence that the Emergencies Act was warranted. Not only that, the weight in Court is that people have to prove that the Government was wrong and knew it, not just that the Government was wrong. It is a very high bar for those that think the Government was wrong. Just for the record, only Windsor was resolved before the Emergencies Act was invoked. It was the Ontario Government that stated to the Federal Government that they didn't have the power to end the Occupation. This alone will give the Federal Government Cover to invoke the Emergencies Act. As for vote in the House of Commons Vote, being a Confidence Vote, that actually makes a lot of sense. Invoking the Emergencies Act is a serious act. No Government should ever take such action without it being a vote of confidence, that just wouldn't make any sense, to do otherwise. Can we at least agree on this??
As for the Prime Minster's actions, I do think he could have handled things better, I don't even think he would disagree with this. On the other hand, the Organizers made it well known they where there to overthrow the Government. Pat King stated well before showing up to Ottawa, that he wanted to Shut Ottawa Down. Pat King and his band of Brothers/Sisters where from a range of White Nationals, Alt-Right and other less than peaceful groups. This is why there were Flags with Swastikas, Confederate Flags and other really distasteful symbols. The truth of the matter, some of the Organizers were using a legitimate grievance about the COVID measures as cover for their more distasteful political causes. This is why there was a lot of confusion about what the Protest was really about. Not to mention the Organizers, didn't just Protest and go home, they took part of the City Hostage, until their demands were met. First is was a meeting with the PM, an end to all COVID measures and then an end to the Mandates, or the Blockades and Occupation would continue. There is no way the PM could meet with the Organizers.... not Government could. People can't just run down to Ottawa and demand a meeting with the PM..that would be totally foolish for the Government to entertain that.
In closing I would say this, Protesting about COVID measures, I have no issue with, even if they protested everyday. Shutting down part of the City, creating a disturbance and damaging the community. that is totally unlawful and out of order. The Blockades where unlawful and Anti-Canadian, those that participated and supported the unlawful acts, should have be treated harshly, by the law. They had not right to try and force our Government to bend to their demands. No one elected them to represent US, they are all self appointed. The funny thing, it was all a total waste of time, because most of the COVID measures were going to be relaxed as the Hospitalization rates lowered, exactly as they where last summer. The actions of some cost Canadians a lot of money for nothing.
Canada has always been free, it is one of the greatest countries in the world. Canada and Canadians have done a great job in handling COVID, we have one of the best Death Rates per 100k population and our Economy has recovered faster that most in the Western World. While we are dealing with high inflation it is one of the lowest inflation rates in the developed World and lower than the USA. Canada's economy is doing so well, we need people (immigration) badly, so that businesses can grow. Canadians spend so much time focused on what's wrong with things, that they miss all the things that are so right. People are so focused on PM, that they forget most of the COVID Measures are controlled by the Provinces / Premiers. We Canadians need to stick together and instead of trying to be confrontational like they are in the US, we need to stick to our Canadian values of cooperation and figure a way to solve some of our problems. When we can't agree, we accept our win or defeat on position and move on. COVID isn't biggest problem confronting Canada anymore.....we have much bigger things to deal with now.
It was very surreal to live in Ottawa during the protest. It is the first and maybe last time the biggest story in the world happens in this sleepy government city. I got to see the protest for myself in my capacity as a student journalist and it was the most absurd and goofy thing I ever witnessed. There was a street hockey game going on in front of the supreme court on one of Ottawa's busiest streets, the whole thing was more wild and hilarious than it was destructive.
In making this video, I really wish that I had been back in Canada because I would’ve come to Ottawa and made a video about it like I did it for Chile.
I heard it described as more of a carnival than a protest.
@@mattb4072 It was a far right hate rally of violent, racist, white nationalists funded by American Nazi's trying to overthrow democracy itself. CBC said so for 4 weeks on TV.
@@KaiserS0ZE CBC also published a article the other day about the poor Ottawa residents suffering from PTSD "phantom honking" over it
@@KaiserS0ZE well you know CBC! A very credible source of information! 🤪
pro-tip: people who answer polls are a self-selecting group that is typically not representative of the broader public and not all who choose to answer a poll will be fully honest. The only real measures of people's views are: 1. how they vote in elections and, even better, 2. how they vote with their feet (in other words, whether they are moving to other provinces, countries).
Voting has the same self-selecting bias though... some people don't vote...
The media outlets always rely heavily on polls around elections, and this statement above has only gotten truer in recent years. Just look at how well Hillary Clinton was doing in the polls the night before the 2016 election.
Nah, you have to sign up for these polling systems, and then you also need to keep checking for active polls (I was in at least two of these at some point.) The leading problem is that these are for-profit companies, which results in fishing for the results you want by using nearly-useless (cheap) sample numbers. Phone and mail surveys are obsolete, and scams/robocalls have pretty much made that form of polling unreliable, but internet polling is subject to large left/right tilting by having groups of people who ONLY respond to political polls.
@Ding Ding The UA-cam Buddy French polls have always been correct.
Different demographics and supporters of different parties also have varying likelihoods of actually voting which throws off polls, such as happened a lot with Trump
Great video, but I think you should comment on the financial seizures, and the premise that donating was depicted as a crime of ghastly severity.
Donating to economic terrorists should be a crime. They acted in a manner to deliberately shut down trade in order to overthrow the government... It should have been a crime.
I saw no depiction as such, in fact all during the EMO the government went out of its way to investigate ANY case of individuals being affected by their banks.
What is MOST aggregious about the financial seizures is newsworthy, namely that the government mentioned only about a hundred individuals for targetting, but what the RCMP AND Banks admitted was that THEY targeted far more people than the government. Thats LITERALLY police and private enterprise collusion, which is the very definition of fascism.
I like that you still cited yourself correctly when using your own quote. I'd be tempted to just put: - me at the bottom
Actually you can get in trouble for not citing your previous work in any projects or essays.
J.J think Justin Trudeau will gonna stay in power. Dude is the most unpopular prime minister in Canada history lmao 😂😂
"The Blaze reports..."
Those "sovereign citizens" sound eerily similar to the "Reichsbürger" here in Germany, who think the current constitution and institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany are illegitimate, and we *actually* still live in either the occupied Nazi-era Germany or the monarchical German empire (both known as "Reich" in German)
Lol, should've scrolled down first, just made a similar comment.
Funny considering the Nazis maintained that all of their actions were technically legal as they followed the Weimar constitution.
@@MCTogs the Nazis did not follow the Weimar constitution, they broke it quite often and were allowed to do so by the country’s courts (most of which were very conservative and wished a return to the Empire).
@@LjuboCupic1912 The Allies were cognizant of how the Nazis never repealed the Weimar Constitution, and so they tried to create a veneer of how the 1949 constitution was a kind of amendment to it, in a sort of way. Same in Japan with their Meiji constitution where it is even more explicitly an amendment.
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Wish there had more analysis and commentary on the specific emergency powers. These were seen by some on US right and civil liberties left as going far beyond what was needed; e.g. cutting off bank accounts of drivers, and threatening contributors.
if you're going to fight vaccine mandates I don't care if the government takes your cash.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Ok 71%er
I couldn't agree more. Too many connected issues were left out
Some people are still locked out of their bank accounts and at least 2 convoy leaders are still locked up, no bail.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 what in tarnation
Serious question JJ... I have been a Canadian all of my life. I have NEVER been asked to participate in ANY survey/poll about ANY political topic/question. Just wondering how polls are conducted here in Canada. Are the SAME people polled for all topics? Seems that under any random condition, it should follow that in 40 years, I should have been contacted at least once! These polls lose creditability with me for that reason. No one I talk to has ever been approached either. So it begs the question, who are they polling in polls? If it is not a random sample of Canadians then how is it even valid?
polls usually only consist of around 1000 people which may have been great 100 years ago when the world population was far smaller, but it doesn't hold up to the countries of today. Even 10,000 people wouldn't give an accurate result over every area in a place as large as Canada
100% of the people polled agree with you.
(Just me, I agree with you)
I dunno, I've answered a couple polls in my life. It's random, so statistically some people wouldn't receive many, especially if you ignore anonymous phone numbers.
I had to sign up for maru voice. They send emails of you're eligible for the survey
I’ve gotten quite a few but that’s cause I always answer my phone no matter the number. I have lots of free time so if it’s a scam call I like to waste their time lol
That event finally showed the world the real Canada. A country with deep rooted problems, opposing views and factions and incompetent officials just like the rest of the world. I wish that utopian, harmonious and egalitarian make belief vision of Canada that our gov. is propagating around the world is finally dead.
Never really thought Canada was any of those things, but I didn't think it was too bad either. Until Justin decided it was time to push the boundary of government powers then undo it all before any rulings could've been made to declare it illegal. And how he didn't even try to negotiate...
In Scotland one of the more famous protests was the teachers march and it was just as peaceful and consisted of a 5 mile long parade of people clogging the city headed for Parliament. The government was instantly out negotiating pay rises. But despite covid restrictions becoming less popular and less necessary the Canadian Parliament was trying to blame the opposition party for not sorting it out? Hello? The opposition party isn't in power...
Well tbh Canada has always been USA number 2 to me, except for the French-speaking parts, a weird mix between the US, my country France and an unknown third element
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@@augth We are more similar to the uk or australia than the us
@@xxyyzz59 I’m not gonna sit here and lecture you about your own culture, but the Canadians I’ve met act and speak almost exactly the same as the people in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The culture really isn’t much different.
23 minutes! looking forward to part 2 where you have time for thoughts on:
- celebrities chiming in
- international copy cat movements (finally a Canadian cultural export!)
- fundraising, hacking, and doxing
- the actual convoy component from coast to coast leading up to Ottawa and how it grew
- all of the flags
No thanks
@@JJMcCullough Just wait! this original video will become so popular that the forces of capitalism will compel you to make part 2! hahaha
@@JJMcCullough Please, pretty please. XD
@@JJMcCullough no is not an option
yeah let’s beat that dead horse to a pulp! 😆
I think the idea of relying on poll data is a huge problem in itself.
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As someone who owns a business downtown East Ottawa, I was only affected ONCE the police decided to block ALL downtown highway offramps and on ramps. The day the police did that was the day I lost business. I went to Convoy protest about 12 days or so. It was so peaceful, so many hugs, it was honestly crazy too see.
And the left calls the protesters “neo nazis”
Thanks for your support!
Those polls at the end were very concerning with people willingly giving "emergency powers" for the sake of security or "law and order" makes me wonder what it would take for a Canadian Patriot Act.
It wouldn’t take much imo. Very worrying
Good. We can trust the government. The government knows best for us. You should listen to your leader and be loyal to your government. If you disagree with me that means you are racist.
One thing I admire about the French and Americans is their ability to throw a protest when they see something from their government that they don't like. Canadians and the British just passively and politely disagree, maybe throw a small protest that doesn't attract much attention but the French and Americans really come out in full force.
In Canada patriotism is defined by your love of the Canadian government and government funded institutions. A Canadian "patriot" is someone who watches government subsidized Canadian TV shows on the government funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), listens to government subsidized Canadian music, proudly declares their love of Canada's crappy single payer government funded healthcare system, earnestly believes Canadian government narratives about how "the world needs more Canada", buys and consumes government subsidized dairy egg and poultry products produced under Canada's government run supply management system, and speaks bilingually the 2 official languages of the government of Canada, English and French.
Canadians tends to be anxious and easily scared people. That's to be expected for it has been built by people fleeing the revolution war in the US from one side and people scared of everything English on the other side.
Completely anecdotal but as a blue collar guy from the west coast the vast majority of people around me supported these protests, none of them have ever answered a poll or involve themselves in politics for the most part. At the same time it seemed like the ones who didn't were the more white collar/ office worker types, which would be most people in the city itself. Makes sense when you see where the people were coming from to protest, starting in the more agricultural areas moving towards the downtown core. Either way the government response to this protests along with the obvious trend towards legislation intended to limit what regular citizens can do (speech, internet censorship, firearms bans and the like) is definitely concerning to working class people like me who just want to be left alone.
Trudeau wants to turn Canada into the largest slave state by 2030. He woll start opening up gulags for sure
Any kind of protest that actively screws over residents and local business is a protest I highly disagree with, policy be damned.
The fact it began from a tantrum over vaccines and masks makes it worse.
@@BubbyBoy to be fair, the government told the businesses to shut down, and then promised remuneration for their losses, as far as I am aware. I heard many people in the protest say if businesses had been open, they would have supported them.
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@@BubbyBoy A tantrum? So it was a tantrum that my friend has not been able to see her parents and the rest of her family in over 2 years? (she's in Michigan, they're in Canada) Is it a tantrum that we're forced to wear masks that don't work but take away identity and trust clearly creating psychological issues in the populace, hence why this protest and the reaction to it are so extreme?
Seriously take a look at how things are and I guarantee you if someone told you in 2002 what your world would look like now, you'd freak out.
Tantrum my ass
It’s interesting that many on the Canadian right would perceive the oil and gas protests as “getting away” with a lot, because I’ve seen a lot of people on the left talk about how heavy handed the response was to those, and how comparatively light the response was to the trucker protest (at least, until the unprecedented move of the Emergencies Act).
As someone who's attended more than his fair share of left-wing protests over the years -- much milder ones than those which have blocked train lines, but still -- I couldn't help but notice that authorities put in a bunch of measures, then politely waited for many days before actually doing anything substantial. Hmm.
it’s just more polarization. the right wingers who are appalled at the notion of the government shutting down the convoy, were more than ok with the RCMP shutting down railway blockades and the like. and obviously vice versa
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You don't even have to look at left wing protests to see how much more gently the convoy was handled. Just look at how chaotic the crackdown in Europe is.
And before people talk about how "peaceful" the convoy is, of course there's gonna be no drama if you're allowed to do what you want like blocking a bridge. The protests in Europe weren't peaceful on either side, almost like a you punch me, I punch back situation. Most other protesters aren't interested in doing violence but that's what happens when you're treated with force.
@@georgefloydwasablackman7402 are you gonna spam this on every comment? It's not worth watching, really stupid.
You didn't talk about the freezing of the trucker's bank accounts how how terrible that is. You also didn't talk about how some of the powers invoked during the emergency act will not be rescinded after the protest was over. And how about mentioning the government could have negotiated terms with the protesters to end the protests, instead of doing it by force?
Wasnt very fair and objective was it
In fact he sounded like he was for authoritarian behavior
@@jamesriley007 but the emergency act has been greatly reduced
Words keep steadly losing their meaning.
Next election the people of Canada have a chance to make the change themselves.
You have literally no right to complain. After advocating the genocide of Canadians, Canada very, very slowly responded. The American-financed "protesters" received more lenient treatment than they would at home.
Referring to the protesters almost exclusively as "truckers" is rather disingenuous.
Despite being the creators, this protest was quickly taken over by those who do NOT work in the industry.
Yes. The majority of truckers are vaccinated and have no issue with the mandates. They mostly didn't appreciate being used as a scapegoat for a nationwide temper tantrum. Which is why I try not to refer to them as "truckers", and have a hard time even calling them "protestors", as that implies they had a legitimate point to make.
Did you watch the whole video?
@@raem7846 dang... losing autonomy is not a legitimate point to make hmmm.
@@sdrawkcabUK Yes it is, because it was the exact same argument used to exonerate the BLM protests
@@raem7846 What would be a legitimate point to you?
This guys hair game (and videos) are always on point.
All the right wing people on my neighborhood started flying Canadian flags next to their trump flags here in California. It was a kind of odd sight.
Hah that's awesome
Most Canadian conservatives are not Trump fans. Trump is an idiot ....just the same as Biden
You have a cool neighborhood. Here all I have are braindead leftists who clap in front of the TV when their pet politician finishes talking.
@@hppvitor You must be peeking through curtains to see that, no? Creep
@@SpinDip42069 Look at the lefty who got so assblasted by me speaking ill of his fellow leftists that ignored the basic fact that, in an apartment building, you can even hear your neighbors phone ringing, let alone them clapping
I love your approach to complex issues as what they are: complex. These videos don't make me feel like I'm being persuaded, and I like that. it's refreshing.
really!? that was the worst video i've ever seen. he's a tool of the government, open your eyes.
Disagree as I watched protest on live he is diplomatically left leaning rationalization.missing entire points of CHARTER RIGHTS RULE OF LAW..badly mistreated
Your videos & reflection on Canadian politics, along with their insecurities regarding the US, have really made me pick up on similar sentiments from those of other countries.
Reading many comments in videos on the Russia/Ukraine invasion, it's eerily similar how sensitive people can be about their own countries, yet find ways to favorably compare themselves to the US... casually bringing them into unrelated topics just to prop themselves up. If a spotlight is shined on any flaw or issue in one's own country, the responses highly trend towards deflecting to the US instead.
Seeing Canadian political figures & media acting as if Canadians like these truckers didn't previously exist until they were exposed to American influence made me chuckle. People like this exist in every country all over the world, only they aren't as widely covered in the media, hashing out all grievances & issues in the public for the world to follow.
The US media also isn't really compelled to protect a national image, as they care far more about viewership. So the sense of American collective duty or mindset isn't really as uniform as they seem to prefer it in Canada or other countries.
I think Canada might be a bit different in the case of US influence just because Canadian identity is so rooted in the relationship with America. I think it's true that the American influence had a large part to play in the ideology surrounding the protest but, it isn't unique or new. The US will always have influence on Canadian politics and there is nothing we can really do to escape from it. It's not fair to say that these people would or would not exist if it weren't for the US because the influence is ever present.
Grew up in rural BC, a Bible Belt for the area. The city is generally populated by this type of politics.
Grew up with classmates who drove a truck painted like The General Lee, complete with confederate flag on the roof. People who saw themselves as christians first, farmers second, and canadians third.
A city councillor ran a military surplus store which flew a confederate flag alongside a Canadian flag of the same size. Until at least 2016.
I have to laugh when people say that canadians are generally leftists. Or when Americans tell me that 'Anyone who flies the confed flag are inherently racists', and i have often argued that some people just see the flag as anti-authoritarian. They think back to watching Dukes of Hazzard and thumbing their noses at ineffectual law-enforcement.
Many see is as a version of the Dont Tread On Me flag. And thats not to forgive them or to patronize, just that american influence is a more complex message than can be explained by "modern media brainwashing"
I would argue that conservative and right wing canadians are more exclusionist then we expect. Taking part in politics only as it befits their wage, licensing and day-to-day lives. They take part in their own communities/echo chambers, and learn from word-of-mouth more than mainstream news sources.
Ignoring or denying the source of the modern anxieties is a surefire way to entrench these divisions
I really like folk music. Generally, the comments on folk music videos are an international love fest. One of the less nice parts of this community is the inevitable comparison to some of the worst parts of the US and its culture. Отава Ё is great, so why compare "Иванушка пачек" to some trash by Cardi B instead of any one of the great folk/traditional songs and artists in the US? How is comparing oneself to the worst parts of another supposed to be useful?
You hit the nail on the head. It's your classic insecurity. People from these no name countries really hate the fact that America is top dog and their irrelevant country is a meme on the global stage.
People like this always exist everywhere, but they usually don’t shut down major border entry points and international trade routes in the middle of a series of international crises.
I find it fascinating that the “people”decided the only solution was force.
Why didn’t the “people” demand that Trudeau talk to the truckers and try to negotiate with them. I mean nobody likes to be called named and dismissed. Seriously we could have saved a lot of money and time if Trudeau just recognizing them as Canadian citizens. He could have tried before he went to the Emergencies Act. I have never seen the press or anyone talk about that one obvious choice.
I believe they did demand that. He ran away
Spend two years dehumanizing people and this is what you get... they become a 'problem' that must be 'dealt with'.
While I disagree with Trudeau, him caving would set a really bad precedent, and everyone would try to do the same thing as the truckers. You need law and order.
@@hussain26049321 Trudeau had already set that president with all the prior protests and blockades. He just didn’t agree with the truckers so he called them names and created division. They were hard working, tax paying citizens that had legitimate grievances. A good leader could have handled this situation and saved the taxpayers millions. I also find it disturbing that you can burn down a church in Canada and no arrests but organize a protest that Trudeau doesn’t agree with you get arrested.
@@hussain26049321 what about the bad precedent of allowing governments to suspend civil liberties for an 'emergency' for over two years, use a vaccine rollout to introduce Chinese style digital ID systems, then seeking to bed in all that in permanently, whilst seeking to suppress, demean and impoverish anyone who opposes them? The truckers were only there because Trudeau has refused point blank to even talk with them because they're 'racists' apparently.
Several years ago you did a video in which you did a bunch of patriotic Canadian things. Whilst making a totem pole out of soap you marveled that there were JJ fans who had seen everything you’ve ever done. I can’t believe this is the case, but I think I’ve become one of those. I get really excited whenever I see a new video from you pop up. And as usual, this one did not disappoint. Really well done!
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JJ I'm often critical of your content my background being growing up in in a different part of Canada, but I always appreciate your takes especially in the last few years as our public's ideas of what government means shifts. I can't wait to read the Royal Inquiry on this and any additional investigations, I think there was a lot of information that simply wasn't told to the public and I hope we get to find out what.
I feel as if J.J.'s obligation to cover this issue immediately made him a bit too quick to post a video without doing enough thorough research and analysis. I can't necessarily blame him for that because his job as a UA-cam personality is primarily to serve his audience. However, I do feel his take on the trucker convoy is missing some key details, and some information has actually been proven wrong since the publishing of this video. For example, the director of Canada's financial intelligence unit (FINTRAC) had came out and admitted that the vast majority of funding actually did NOT come from the USA. I would have liked a heavier focus overall on the arbitrary freezing of financial assets - both before the Emergencies Act and what has continued afterward. The weapons found "at the border" was also proved false, and has since been not linked to the protest.
@@TwistyTrav Yep. Also the hired police Trudeau had to bring in because Ottawa cops refused to take down peaceful protesters. Also the attack on protesters by a guy in a car, long since released on bail -- compared to the extensive jail without bail for organizers who've been dubbed 'political prisoners'.
@@TraceyMush Are you from Ottawa? I am, and there were no police on the roads for a month because every single one was on rotation for the protest. I don't have anything personal against the protesters (I know some), or protesting in general but from my direct experience with them I can say there was no unifying message beyond 'fuck Trudeau' and 'fuck masks'. In the midst of a worldwide pandemic which is unprecedented in our times, you are not going to make many friends arguing that no one should have to be vaccinated especially AFTER most of the country already has been. Not that I'm saying what was done was correct but having watched it all unfold in my city, I'm not sure how else the government could have handled it given the circumstances (besides the monetary holds which is a blatant abuse of power). The protesters deliberately put the government in a position where it could either sit by helplessly, hostage to their non-starter demands, or use excessive force to remove them. Can you really pity the guy who gets beat up after constantly egging a person on? Besides that, we don't exactly live in the most free society; a fundamental ignorance of what freedom is here was at the core of what they were protesting. I think the U.S. Capitol riot having happened just a year before played a huge role in the governments response as well. Many of the protesters were very arrogant and didn't care about the lives they were affecting all around them; they continuously honked semi horns for over a week and kept their trucks idling in the downtown core. Regardless of your political beliefs, you wouldn't want to be a new parent raising a baby in Ottawa, or owning a small business downtown, or working in that area. People lost their livelihoods because these 'freedom fighters' blocked the entrance of their store for a month just to be a nuisance, that's why there is a class-action suit over $300 million. Perhaps that sounds like a lot for someone who lives outside Ottawa, but when you recognize that each day cost the city over $1 million and people actually live here and need to go about their days, you begin to understand how much this affected one of the main business hubs of Ottawa. I have many friends who were harrassed daily by this group.; if anyone wearing a mask went by, people would jeer and shout insults. Again, I support protesting for basic rights and freedoms, but it's very hard to side with the bigots who were the loudest part of the group. They may not have been aggressive to everyone, but in regards to Trudeau it was an angry mob. I'm no Trudeau fan, but people criticize him for not speaking with them when they fail to realize that the crowd may have attacked him.
Perhaps you're one of the reasonable people in the crowd; when you see people in Q-Anon shirts and the type of fringe groups which you would normally avoid in the same crowd as you, do you not step back and ask yourself "Am I in the right group? How do I agree with people who are disconnected from reality?" Many people in Western Canada have some general animosity towards Eastern Canada while the same can't be said of Eastern Canadians, and a lot of the protest and the reaction to it illustrates that resentment. I agreed with many of the gripes the protesters had, but they were willing to appease anyone and everyone just to have a bigger number, and frankly I would have been ashamed to show my face among some of those people. While Trudeau said it in the most nauseating way, they WERE willing to accept people who were quite fringe as long as they didn't like masks either and no one other than the Nazi flag guy was removed or asked to leave.
@@xavierpaquette8230 I appreciate that you were there and you have information I may not have had. But you seem to be responding to me as if I said something different than what I did. You agreed the freezing of bank accounts was wrong. My main thrust was that breaking up the protesters with hired mercenaries was also wrong. I get it the people living there would have been hugely Disturbed, if I were there I would have hated it. But hating the noise and the disruption to my life wouldn't have made me hate what they were doing - for all of us.
Seeing how radical and unhinged both right and left wing Canadians are during this protest leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Especially seeing people who stand up for the rights of protesters only to call for violence and military action against a protest they disagree with blew my mind.
I'd wager to say that the right is far more unhinged than the left. I'm probably biased in that perspective, of course, but... well, I mean, just look at 'em. The left fights for things like the environment, Indigenous rights, health care and education. What does the right protest for? Selfishness, rejecting science, and chaos. I know what side of history I'd like to be on.
@@frisbeepilot Sounds rather biased, with such assumptions (which I'm not saying are wrong you can always pick the worst person from any group to prove such political points) of those with opposing views that fuels the radical part of my point, now what I wonder is how far would you take it with labeling conservatives as dumb to actually wanting anyone who identifies as such to be punished by society in some form of way, and aggressively advocating or promoting such things.
@@frisbeepilot It is not selfish to stand up for individual rights and liberty. You have the right to move about society as you see fit, you have the right to assemble with whom you want to assemble with, you have the right to put whatever substance into your body, and you have the right to reject all substances being forced into your body. None of these things are selfish to say nor do. Ostracizing people from society because they choose to invoke the right to the fact they own their own body and choose to do with it how they see fit, will not persuade anyone to your side. In-fact all this will do is create martyrs with a hill for extremists to die on.
Also, nothing from what I saw in these protests led me to believe they were chaotic most of the time. It was well organized, well funded, and well coordinated. It is also hard that the "right wing" is chaotic and selfish when compared to numerous BLM protests and riots lead to people laying dead in the streets and to stores being looted and burned. From what I know, stores were not looted nor burned for the most part by the truckers, nor did the truckers protest lead directly to people being dead
@@frisbeepilot I dunno. It’s honestly a toss-up for me, and I’d say I fall Centre-Left, politically-speaking.
For quite a while I would have actually said the Left tended to get more “Mouth-Foamy Outraged”, but events like Charlottesville and the Jan 6th riots have highlighted just how entrench aspects of hate are on the Right.
The problem is, as it has been alluded to, too many people will point out the more extreme or even violent aspects of the opposing “side”, while completely downplaying and excusing their own when they do the same.
@@cashcleaner @cashcleaner Its a tough situation, from my perspective the right is a very reactionary, entrenched group. I kinda see Jan 6th as an inevitable situation with Trump loosing and the US being under lockdown due to covid and constant violent rioting, it seemed natural.
Not attempting to excuse the choices extreme groups take but when politicians, ideological influencers and media stoke the flames fire is inevitable.
And as someone who likes to be in the middle of both I cant help shake the notion that it's becoming popular to hate the right no matter what because they "slow progress down".
The appeal to authortarism of my fellow canadians deeply saddens me
It’s growing in America too.
@@justinland1208 It's growing all over the world. It may simply be the internet destabilizing everything and the powers that be are needing to use more and more force to control us. It shows that democracy is probably just a lie.
I'm I the only person who laughed when J.J. mentioned Gerald Butts? What a fantastic name
At least his first name isn't Seymour...
@@martins.4240 or Harry
@@Fragatron Nice
It is easy to dismiss people like the Canadian truckers as "extremists" or "wingnuts" but I think that Covid restrictions in Canada and my own country were just a catalyst for people feeling disenfranchised. Costs did rise with Covid making it harder to make a living. This may or may not have had anything to do with the government, but the government becomes the target of one's frustration. Plus it doesn't help that politicians of all stripes are most versed in being politicians and really don't know much about anything else, like viruses for example.
I don't think they were dismissed in that way EXCEPT by media and people who really didn't care much. Protestors of ALL issues are often dismissed that way. But thats likely true what you say, in fact I often state that while I think their reasoning was crazy, much of the governments response was FAR crazier, and i'm not talking vaccine shit. Our PROVINCIAL government was far worse, and our provincial govenrment had THREE large protests against it, at one point he conservative premier asking the media to not tell people where he was because he was getting targetted.
It’s a lot of shit not just Covid it’s wholesale disrespect for the lower classes and the rule of law is what is going on here
Imagine JJ goes on vacation _again_ in a year or so and Canada tries to invade Alaska or something
Liberate Alaska from the southern occupiers*
@@Coltoid it's not exactly a liberation when Canada never owned Alaska in the first place. The US bought it from Russia
If that happens we bout to annex Canada 🇺🇲🇺🇲
The way thing are going, Alaska should fear more Russia taking them back .
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Those polls at the end were quite disturbing. Canada would rather have a dictator than disruptive protests.
Sad time we live in !
Good. We can trust the government. The government knows best for us. You should listen to your leader and be loyal to your government. If you disagree with me that means you’re racist and you hate women.
just a reflection of the current moment. poll people about it in any normal month and i feel that the rsutls would drastically change.
@@theactionman8403 😆 😅 unfortunately some people think that way.
I do not think it's a dictator people want but someone that can resolve issues easily. The poll questions were quite inflammatory, if you take a group of people and put different gradients of approach from most inflammatory to most diplomatic, people will choose the diplomatic way more often. It is just like the war in Ukraine. People want it to stop but they would not like to be part of the conflict because of the repercussions that it would create. If a country stepped up and intervened in the issue, it would be a short-lived hero until it started dragging more people that would not like to be part of the conflict. Therefore, making a bigger problem than what it used to be.
The issue is not that Canadians want a dictator but rather a problem solver. That is why the Emergencies Act was so controversial. It is not whether people wanted a harsh resolution but a swift one. If the government had not acted so careless about the situation, the backlash would have been far less.
I would say that the restrictions in Quebec especially were quite restrictive, even beyond what most Canadians realize. In January, there was a curfew, and "vaxpass" was required at large stores like Walmart, Canadian Tire, and Costco, as well as what was once considered 'essential' liquor stores and pot dispensaries.
They are private business though. They can impose those rules. The curfew is a weird rule though.
@@regretfulraccoon3560 No the government forced them too
@@regretfulraccoon3560 ...Except the government told the businesses they MUST enforce those rules. Also the SAQ (Quebec's Liquor store) is a government monopoly. The moment the requirement from the government ended, those major corporations stopped demanding proof of vaccination to enter.
So, those restrictions have by government decree, with minimal scientific basis behind it. There was a story recently where the "top doctor of Quebec" asked for supporting evidence from various organizations in favour of a curfew...a few hours before the curfew went into effect.
Been in Montreal for a few months now and have been following Quebec politics. Quebeckers are, by and large, big-government folks. Not sure about these new crops of immigrants, but old-stock Quebeckers certainly are. And that goes for both right-wing (heavy-handed French-nationalist mandates) and left-wing issues (bigger welfare state, higher taxes, more stringent public health/safety regulations).
@@commanderkai Ah, ok. I'm not too into Canadian politics despite watching JJ lol. The curfew makes no sense though.. Not a single doctor ive heard in the US has said that a curfew would reduce the numbers.
Hi JJ. I am an Australian. I stumbled onto your video of How Canada's Government Works (citizenship test tutorial). As we have an almost mirror image of government here in Australia I was interested to see if it varied much from us. I enjoyed the video and then found myself watching many more of your videos and enjoying them too. Our countries have much in common yet I know little about Canada and your videos were helping to increase my knowledge. However the trucker protest sparked my attention and I have been 'all in' observing Canadian politics since. When I say all in, I mean watching constant live streaming of the protest. Watching political debate and even sitting through speeches of senators during the aborted Emergencies Act discussion and vote in The Senate. One of the senators spoke for over an hour and I listened to every single word. As I have followed this very closely I am now questioning much of the content of your other videos which I had previously taken on face value as I did not know any better on the various subjects in your other videos. However as I am very well versed on the trucker protest (certainly in comparison to most other things I know about Canada) I feel your "attempt at a fair and honest summary" of the trucker protest seemed lacking in many key points which have been written many times over in the comments of this video. I have watched many of your videos and you come across as incredibly articulate and certainly not short of a word as you demonstrated while addressing The House Of Commons Committee in relation to Bill C11. However it was the omission of some of what I believe were rather significant events during this protest that you did not mention in your video. The freezing of bank accounts without a court order or the Go Fund Me and subsequent holding of funds raised through Give Send Go. Tamara Lich arrested and detained for 18 days charged with the heinous crime of counselling to commit mischief. That to me through my Australian eyes is quite disturbing when we share the same system of government and rule of law. I have watched all of this with great interest because our system of government is almost identical. Overall the thing I am struggling with the most and I am really hoping you can elucidate this for me please. Is that I watched all 52 minutes and 19 seconds of your video of How Canada's Government Works. ua-cam.com/video/ymEFFbcom88/v-deo.html . The Emergencies Act that was imposed by your Prime Minister required among other things, the "rubber stamp" from The Senate. Not only did The Senate not rubber stamp it. They were not even able to complete the vote. So how did The Prime Minister invoke The Emergencies Act without that rubber stamp. From my understanding the invocation of The Emergencies Act was unconstitutional? But I really would like to understand if I am barking up the wrong tree with my understanding of this? Did I interpret your video of How Canada's Government Works incorrectly? Or has the political process and rule of law in Canada changed since you posted that video of How Canada's Government Works and now it is out of date and needs some refinement? I really would appreciate some clarification. Regards Rod.
Nailed it. Everyone has their COVID story. Part of mine is being called a small, fringe minority with unacceptable views.
@@oliviakilpatrick Hi Olivia. I only started watching the trucker protest because of the novelty of seeing snow piled up on the side of the footpath (sidewalk). It is winter here in Brisbane now and was 23 degrees C today and will be tomorrow too. So seeing snow piled up like that in an urban setting was a little captivating. As the protest continued on I would tune in each day. The first thing that sparked me was Trudeau going into hiding. I was like...... WTF! From there, from a political perspective the whole event in my eyes just degenerated. However the protest was just so intriguing in my view due to the behaviour / restraint shown by the truckers to not react violently or disrupt the peace and thus give the government what they wanted. I was so very proud of them. Aussies could not do that for that long. No way!! Albeit it would be to our detriment. From that I have learnt about the media in Canada. The CBC reports of the trucker protest did not seem to align with what I was watching via UA-cam live streams. And then there was the implementation of The Emergencies Act. I do not remember when I last cried, but I was welling up watching what was happening that day. The reason I have taken so much interest in this is because we too in Australia operate with the same system of government. If it were happening in The USA I could distance myself from it. But this really hit home. I have still been keeping an eye on the aftermath of that day. Like tuning in each day for 18 days wondering when that 'menace to society' Tamara Lich would be released. I keep trying to imagine the rule of law and parliamentary process being ignored here in Australia the way it has been in Canada, but I just can't. But then I keep telling myself that I am living supposedly within the same laws, just without the snow! Just for your information, our media here did not give the protest any coverage at all! It was like it never happened. I find that staggering. I cannot believe the words that come out of Trudeau when he is in front of a camera. As you stated 'fringe minority with unacceptable views". But also where he questioned "should we tolerate these people?" It blows my mind that a leader would say that. Our governments are formed and operate the same way as each other. We both just copied The Brits. I am by no means an expert on our political processes, but I am a believer in due process and the rule of law. The only two things slightly different is that voting in Australia is compulsory and our senators are elected by the public just like our politicians who are elected to the House Of Representatives (House Of Commons). What I am seeing in your country bothers me greatly. With the framework you have in place it should not be happening. As for JJ's self-proclaimed "fair and objective analysis" of the protest. I am perplexed! I don't think it can be fair when it was full of omissions that are integral to whole event. As I stated, JJ is very articulate and not short of a word, so it seemed to be out of character for him to not acknowledge other key aspects of this event. I hope he may offer an explanation as many people like me were questioning his omissions too. My guess is that right now he is probably a little more interested in Bill C11 (how is Bill C11 even a thing?) for now, rather than some guy on the other side of the world. Good luck. Rod.
Ah, glad you got to see so much of Canada, through the protest! I was actually there for... well... a few hours. It took me about 12 hours to get there, so I was only able to stay for a few hours, and BOY WAS IT COLD! It was like, -30C for sure, and windy too! It was unreal, the amount of cold there was. Still tons of people, and everyone was SO FRIENDLY! It was honestly one of the best moments of my life, and I absolutely adored it. I did see some counter protestors in several places. They were all in still groups, holding signs, and all masked. They looked very, VERY unpleasant... And another thing to note is the police had to be around THEM.
I can actually relate to that situation a bit more, even. Around a month later, maybe two months (I can't recall the exact time), I was walking home from work, and I heard *rampant honking in the distance* so instead of going home, I went to go find out what all the commotion was about. I found a main road, with a stream of cars waving Canadian flags! I also saw police, and counter protestors, too! The counter-protestors had signs like 'We care about our healthcare workers' and other things like 'go home'. I did actually recognize some of the vehicles coming through my road as vehicles I saw at the Freedom Convoy, too! It was very exciting, but one really important thing to note: I did see some violence starting to break out.
The counter-protestors were being watched by a whole squad of police officers. They were yelling and being violent. They were trying to get on the road and block traffic. They were being very aggressive, and it was frankly a little disgusting to watch them try to push police officers into the road. What was more upsetting is that the police didn't stop them. They can be as vicious as they like, but an unmasked person cleans up Ottawa's streets? Must be evil!
But yeah, just wanted to say a few things. First, I found JJ through this video specifically. This was after I had both been to Ottawa, and also seen countless hours of livestream footage (as it was the most amazing thing happening, I always wanted to stay up to date on everything that was happening). There's actually a very strong case to made that the Freedom Convoy was the largest, most peaceful protest in history, and that warms my heart.
But back to what I was saying! I found JJ's video on the convoy, and I was shocked how his idea of a 'fair and objective analysis' seemed to misrepresent both the goals of the convoy, as well as the government's role in oppressing the citizenry even further. Of course one of the biggest topics that was ignored was the fact that the Trudeau government had began seizing and freezing bank accounts from those who would donate or buy merchandise in relation to the Convoy; This is doubly concerning because they began using those same powers (illegally) to begin punishing people for donating, even before the new rule was brought into place. Other things not mentioned could include the old, indigenous leader who was trampled by a police horse while the police tried to crack down on the peaceful protestors, as well as the government telling businesses to close during the protest. It was not the choice of the business; It was the choice of the government.
I'd also like to point out that in addition to the main, Ottawa protest, there were several other protests that began in many other places. One of the largest was the Border crossing in Alberta, Couts (i think it was called) where there were allegedly illegal firearms(...In Canada...? - According to some sources, these guns were also confiscated from the owners' houses, rather than being present at the protest). Other protests include the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor. This one gained a lot of attention despite being smaller, as it had been a collective effort from truckers on both sides of the border. The police were bussed in from many cities to handle these protests, but it was very clear that blocking primary access routes and freight routes peacefully was very successful.
It should also be noted, that shortly after these protests, mandates began getting dropped. It worked! Most people who believe the narrative being pushed, however, don't seem to believe it, and simply accept that 'oh the government was going to do it anyway!' We still have some restrictions in place, and it still varies by province. In Quebec, the mask mandate was only dropped around a month ago, whereas in Ontario, it dropped in March-April, however transit systems, like busses, still required masks and such. Until recently, travel via train or other public transit to another province still required a vaccine passport. Currently, they still require masks during the entire transit, however, international travel is still mandating vaccine passports, which is rather despotic.
So... why am I saying all this? Well, obviously there was a lot that happened. I just find JJ rather... selfish and self-centered to care about the authoritarian regime when it comes for HIS bank account (Bill C-11) but was openly in favor of authoritarianism when it suited his political views. While he certainly knows how to talk well, and CAN do his research, his outright ignorance shows that his values are not in Canada, and those who create content here, but for himself. If Bill C-11 didn't directly affect UA-camrs, he would not be speaking out about it.
@@nicholasanderson7316 100%. I’m an American and nationalism is gonna bring down ours & the Canadian government, if anything. Our psycho nationalists consist of far right, fascist rural whites & the mega rich. In Canada, it is their liberals who are so afraid of being American, are actually doing the same crazy nationalistic insanity. People forget that political views isn’t a square, it is a circle. When you fall very fall one way, it swings back around.
I am sorry that I am very unaware of Australian politics because it doesn’t often get promoted here. However, I think a lot of commonwealth countries forget that the US was a former colony & we all are much more similar to the UK than we may like. The US still is in the “special relationship” with the UK, making us do what they do so we both benefit. Our countries share more in common than we all my like to admit.
Lastly, similar things are happening in the UK! Boris has a crazy, almost religious following like Trump. Trump called him a “British Trump.” Scotland is trying to succeed and there is talk of a reunification of Ireland. Brexit has left them with a huge political divide. France almost got a Trump supporting, fascist to win their presidency.
All of our most Allied, interconnected countries are going extreme. It’s insanity
@@nicholasanderson7316 It is very scary what is happening. Our countries are “sister” countries, all being still or former colonies. We all share roots, a language, and alliances. It’s terrifying. I do think though my country gets unfair attention just because we are the biggest world power, the first to get sovereignty, & carry the most English speakers in the world.
However, whatever the US and the UK do, they usually do together. UK politics still directly change ours. Civil unrest, increasing political divides, and rise in extreme nationalism has been rising everywhere in our sister countries. It’s like we forget that this is directly what led to Hitler gaining power. Nationalism is a risky toy.
I'm sure this comment section will be a civil and honest discussion full with thoughtful interactions and good faith arguments😇
Yes, because I have a good audience.
@@JJMcCullough no you don't. See, I just started the first argument.
@@guywithabatpic lol.
*flips table* *kicks over plant* "heck no, I am here to cause chaos!"
@@guywithabatpic I bet you like your [popular food] in [unpopular way]. What a dweeb. Also your political views are bad and I refuse to elaborate further (note, mine are perfect and I will never change opinions because perfection runs in my veins).
The reactions by Canadians endorsing the use of excessive force against the protesters to maintain order reminds me of the Milgram experiment. See excerpts from his 1974 article "The Perils of Obedience":
"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not.
The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation. Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
But, Canada is founded on "Peace, Order, and Good Government." Imposing peace and order is much more Canadian than American "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Imposing order is in line w/ our constitution.
@@drtaverner my favourite part of the charter of rights and freedoms is where it says you can seize bank accounts without a court order.
@@fronation231 As part of criminal investigations, that's perfectly normal.
@@drtaverner when a WARRANT IS PROVIDED. And when an investigation is being done. They froze bank accounts of Canadians for donating to a perfectly legal protest at the time without investigating. THAT IS NOT NORMAL. And go fund me working in tandem with the government is a direct example of fascism (see Mussolini’s definition of fascism. Don’t tell me you know more about fascism than a fascist, fascist)
@@fronation231 Oh boy. You do know Canada is based on Peace, Order, and Good Government, not the freedom to terrorize a city, right? If they'd been under Federal and not Municipal land there would have been guns involved. Just look at what happened in Wet'suwet'en.
And GoFundMe is not a regulated banking organization. It's a private company to which people sent money. Honestly, they could have kept it.
And no, a warrant is not required to freeze accounts. Try being overdue on your HST remittance. They'll freeze your business, your personal, and anything else you've got.
JJ! Brother my wife is hooked on you and your “excellent reporting” as she has said. Also before yesterday she went for a SOLID WEEK asking if you had posted a new video yet 😆. I probably told her a dozen times that you was in DC on holiday. Now of course as I ALWAYS tell you. I love you brother JJ and my wife and myself hope all is good with you behind the scenes. ☮️ ❤️ & ✊🏻!
Peace, love, and... fists?
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I found it extremely hypocritical that those truckers, while touting their desire for “freedom,” were SO disrespectful to the right to freedom of the Ottowans and others just trying to live their daily lives. Like, “Let’s protest restrictions on our freedom by taking away the freedom of others! And while we’re at it, let’s make it a huge tailgate party!”
Government took peoples right away which was worse then anything the truckers did. besides anyone who cried about the trucks prolly cried about blues fest also . ya small elite don't represent Ottawa(37 years resident)
I've been following the Ottawa protest situation very closely. The donor list has been leaked and revealed something I didn't expect. Turns out that over 50% of the convoy's money came from American donors, but a further 25% of funds came from people and businesses in BC.
In other words, BC made more financial contributions to this protest than AB, SK, MB, ON, and QC combined, while America contributed more than all of Canada combined.
I went into this under the mistaken belief that AB and SK were the biggest players. Nope and nope. I guess we all learned something about our country during the aftermath of these shenanigans.
I think that’s mostly because BC has a LOT of money just hanging around. It’s just got the most overall wealthy neighborhood closet conservatives who are willing to donate.
You may think this protest is unimportant to Americans but it was very important, this protest is what forced blue state governors to drop their mandates they were afraid the same thing would happen in their capitals and they did not want it. I thank the truckers for allowing my last month in NY to be entirely mask free, I'm in TN now where I will hopefully never have to worry about masks ever returning
@Michael Bishop Honestly, it's likely from dual citizenship (which is common enough) which could technically make both statistics 'true'
"authoritarian is good, when it's done by a left wing person"
...because it has worked out so very well every other time....
Let us all brothers and sisters on the p square introduce the world to the infamous Auth Left square (its forbidden to speck about it is so infamous)
authoritarian is never good
It's not good when done by a right wing person, either.
You know that the JJ is conservative/neo-liberal, right?
Guy in first days of protest ominously waves nazi flag, yelling "is this what you want your country to become?!"...
Protestors kick the guy out. Some see his warning about government fascism, while others, not hearing his warnings, think he's a nazi sympathizer himself...
Trudeau: "See, the truckers are nazis"
🙄
Exactly. This is the sort of thing that tells me that J.J. needs to broaden the media he consumes about an issue before making videos like this that claims to be "fair and objective".
Most people there probably weren’t nazis but it should be a cause for concern if your movement is attracting those types of people.
Not to mention organizer Pat King talking about the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. A lot of people there were white supremacist, or at least ok with white supremacy
See, what I find interesting though, is that the conservative rhetoric pushed by people in favour of these protests, is that a lot of them tend to favour systems that have been shown to trend towards fascism. Things like freer markets, corporate support instead of government support, etc. Neoliberalism has always trended towards the corporate aspects of fascism, and always will. A simple vaccine mandate was literally pushed by George Washington during the worst of smallpox, and to act as if governments don't have the power to mandate aspects of health is absurd. Especially when you look at the other laws people accept, like seatbelt/airbag laws, speed limits, etc.
Conservatism makes no sense, and it's pretty fucking clear.
@@horsman47 it’s pretty clear you don’t know what fascism is. Please stop trying to call everything, including free markets, fascism.
I figured it was something like that I kept getting people saying "but the Nazi".
I learned so much about the truckers and about Canadians' response to protesters in general. This is a fantastic video
Any thoughts on Tamara Lich still being held without bail for Criminal Mischief?
There's nothing really special about it, she was denied the first time because her husband refused to provide clear answers on being a surety. I.e. someone needs to take responsibility to call the police and watch over you until your trial while you are on bail if the judge thinks you are at high risk to re-offend. She has a new surety now and will find out Monday if that one will be accepted.
@@ifeeltiredsleepy Thanks for the response. I'd not heard that side of the story.
@Michael You Canadians are limp wristed.
@@ifeeltiredsleepy Holding someone without bail for 10 days for a mischief charge is unheard of.
@@adampurvis8523 Like I said, she would have been released in a normal amount of time if her surety had not refused to reply to questions during her bail hearing. It is unusual for defendants to refuse to make guarantees not to re-offend before their trial date. She replaced her surety and then was given bail. It is normal to be denied bail when you do refuse to meet the bail conditions. This was held up by the second judge to rule on the bail hearing, Johnson ruled that Bourgeois was correct to determine that Lich's original surety was unfitting, and granted bail under the same conditions as Bourgeois but with a lower bail amount since he thought the crime was less severe than Bourgeois deemed. Two judges agreed that Lich should have been denied bail at the first hearing.
7:16 - I’ve always thought this to be an extension of the “I want to speak to your Manager” Set. Convinced that there is some higher power that will “Fix” everything for you and that elections dont have consequences.
You are allowed to protest election results - nothing repulsive about that. Protesting the result is how you influence change, spark debate and have democracy work. Like look at all the protests Trump had to endure during his presidency. Or the Euromaidan protest in Ukraine that ousted Yanukovych.
@@robobrain10000 those are left wing protests, don’t you know you can’t call those bad but protesting for freedom is equivalent to being a nazi
@@david-468 Sadly that is the case now, if there is a person who is that, even if the vast majority of the people, and you all disagree with that individual, but you dont cut all ties with them, youre a nazi.
@@robobrain10000 WAD
One thing I think might need more exploration is the links between the convoy protestors and various police forces. After it became obvious that someone was feeding the protestors a direct feed of police internal communications, the various officers who expressed support publicly, and now the chaos and resignations within the Ottawa police board, I think there's probably something interesting to be said about the Canadian relationship with its police forces.
wow its almost like in smaller more isolated communities everyone knows everybody!
The leaders such at Pat King are also known far-right white supremacists
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Ottawa is a city of 1.3 million people and is neither remote nor isolated. It's one hour's drive from Montreal and 2 hours from Toronto. The entire area inbetween is populated.
@@ifeeltiredsleepy hahahaha you think 1.3 million people is a big city? You think a one hour drive is short? Bro I'm from LA that's a city. Ottawa is a backwater country hickville compared to the high seat of culture that I occupy.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 You're just deflecting from the collosally stupid statement you made. You think everyone in a city of over 1 million knows each other. I didn't say Ottawa was a big city, I said it was not remote or isolated. It is inbetween the two largest cities and the area between is full of towns. Cope more.
It's quite noteworthy just how much the word 'freedom' has become associated with a certain type of political viewpoint instead of just being a generic buzzword that people across politics use.
Hmm, maybe the people wanting to murder workers don't care about the freedom of the vast majority.
saw you fixing Jregs table in the background in his "Everything's Fine | Change My Mind" Video, Minute 9:31
Excellent video, as always, though it doesn't mention a clause in the Emergencies Act: a commission will perform a post-mortem report to ascertain the reasons why it was invoked. That may shed light on the situation. For example, it was very curious that the Ottawa/municipal and Ontario/provincial police did nothing for so long: was this a situation that fell through the "jurisdictional cracks" or was there insubordination? Presumably the report will give us a full account; this will be crucial to grading Trudeau on his performance.
p.s. I realize a brief video can't explain every detail but: readers may want to study the use of the War Measures Act in 1970. It was incredibly powerful: e.g. it suspended due process and made it a crime to be a member of the FLQ (a Quebec terrorist organization that had started kidnapping politicians) or even to _have ever been a member_ of the FLQ.
There were also protests similar to this all around the world. I know here in Australia we had one, and our friends over in New Zealand had one, all inspired by the Canadian protests of course.
The Australian one was seperate to the canadan protests, but they followed similar rectric and worldviews to what JJ discussed here. The difference is that it went for about a week in Canberra during one of the last weeks of parliament, and then left afterwards.
There was one in Maryland last week too
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@@georgefloydwasablackman7402 George Floyd was a white man
So the protest like a franchise of stupid reality shows that made the IQ levels of Australians drop by 89.47 in 5 years.
Trudeau's border policy last January meant delays where I work and that we had to stop production on certain lines. Friends of mine living in Ottawa describe the protest as more of a tail gate party than as an extremist far-right movement. One of them worked downtown and said it meant an extra half hour to get to work.
That tailgate party was an extremist far right get together. They partied rather than spend their days sitting down trying to get their point across,
They had no business staying there that long and the minor inconvenience that you are trying to paint is as was very difficult for seniors and handicapped people to navigate. Bus routes had to be changed and a lot of people couldn't get to their grocery store. You might think they can just go to another one, but its not that simple. Urban areas can have things called 'food deserts there are NO grocery stores. They couldn't get to the one they did have- for 3 weeks. They were getting progressively more aggressive and should have gone home after 3 days like they promised. I lost all sympathy and trust in them at that point. The whole point of a protest is to get your issue noticed and then go home to do the political work to get it solved with threats of further protest to grease the wheels of gov. Some of the lunatics wanted to take over gov. They were not a majority of the population not even a significant minority. A few partners who do not even seem to be taking their own cause seriously cannot expect to bend the will of gov and alienate people like me when they act stupid and prove their word can't be trusted.
@@evasartorius9528 First of all they were not Far Right Activist. At most there might be the odd nut job there on the Far Right but most of them were normal Canadians that were fed up with Trudeau's mishandling of the crisis. Secondly that coward Trudeau refused to meet with the leaders of the original Truckers movement. That other panderer Singh also refused to meet with them despite the fact that they were working class blue collar people. Justine & Jughead's rhetoric caused more harm then good. Pierre Poliviere from Carleton went out and met them. Third, most of the activity was around Parliament Hill which is mostly made up of Government Offices, Hotels and businesses that cater to that demographic. There are very few residential buildings in that area unless things have changed that much since I lived in Ottawa. My friends in Ottawa said that while going downtown was an inconvenience it was not as bad as the news made it out to be. With the exception of that one drunken chick from Quebec dancing on the tomb of the unknown soldier (which I didn't like) no one sawed off the head of our founding fathers statues or tried to take them down like the Far Left nuts do.
@@romandacilv9260 First off,you might have tried to make an appointment, If you were serious about meeting him. You guys were just showing off. Normal people don't drag their kids to be human shields for them. I am all in favor of protest but not when you do it that way. They should have gotten their kids out of there. I was just the good work of the police that got them out of there.
An inconvenience to you might be a deal breaker for someone else. Have you ever spent a few years in a wheel chair?
Did you approve of that guy giving a little old lady a pretty serious bump she was protesting him? The fire some of them tried to set in the hall of the apartment building. Of them swarming that cop who tried to ticket one of them in the beginning. They were far right yahoos. They didn't eave when they promised they were just hanging around until they got what they wanted. A showdown. Trouble is that the way the gov handled it drew admiration from around the world. As for your covid anger
The US population is about 300M. Canada's population is about 40M. The Americans will hit a million dead to dovid. we have lost a bit over 38000 Even if we compare at the old x's 10 idea. If you multiplied Canada's losses by ten you would get what their losses might be 380,000 They have lost close to a million. If not more. Some of those places have been diddling the numbers since day one.
I know to many people who don't want the vaccine and are not wiling to wear a mask. I know people One has been in hospital since September Another who has been in hospital for 5 months. Do you want to take a chance on putting your life on hold for 6 or 8 months?
Finally, when you start calling them silly names you cost yourself. What I think is oh god not another one. If you want to talk issues get to know the issues. I like talking to someone who has truthful come backs. But if you get caught in a lie or just using school yard name calling I just stop believing anything else you say.
@@evasartorius9528 What plain of existence do you exist in? Trudeau had all the time in the world to prepare for the Truckers the minute they crossed over from BC into Alberta. Common people don't get to make appointments with the PM even MP's have a hard time. No Trudea was dismissive and labelled them Far Right from the start. What human shield s are you talking about. People took their kids with them because who was going to look after them? What you think people were going to start shooting each other? This protest was far more peaceful than the G-20 summit protest in Toronto 2010. Seriously you really need see things outside of the small box your in.
@@evasartorius9528 While I do not defend the cause of the protests in Ottawa, I am never one to rejoice at police violence on the citizens it's supposed to protect. While I do agree that the protester were being aggressive towards the locals and some actions needed to be taken to remedy this problematic situation, I think your approbation towards what is ultimately also violence is in bad taste. Two wrongs do not make a right sort of deal.
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... I was hoping you would touch on the freezing of bank accounts more. This is a concerning precedent. The same measures certainly weren't applied to anti-pipeline protesters when they halted commerce, destroyed property, etc. This disparity in response naturally is going to polarize the nation further. Considering that the lockdowns were going to end anyways, I just don't understand why the gov just didn't agree to a "timeline" that they were already going to follow anyways.
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I liked the expose but it's a bit sad JJ toed the established line: "Emergency measures came and went."
But that is a lie, everything implemented under the Emergency Measures (that weren't even voted on yet) has remained in place. They are ready for the next protests, from now on only government-sanctioned protest can take place. Oh well, at least we aren't living under Uncle Vlad who has implemented basically the same restriction but with much harsher jail times...
@@LeSyd1984 This is interesting if it's true. Mind providing sources that support the point on retaining the Emergency Measures?
@@andromeda7676 Nah, the Act itself is rescinded, it might never fully activated since Justin lifted it before it could pass the Senate. However, I thought we no longer needed to be accused of criminal activities to have assets frozen (thus extending the reach of the Feds)... but it seems it might have already been the case.
@@LeSyd1984 Agreed. People who’ve had their bank accounts frozen have no recourse due to “emergency powers”. If this was done to people who donated to bail funds during the 2020 summer protests, we would never hear the end of it. However, I think this optic has galvanized a lot of people and has woken a lot of people up.
Very interesting. Remind me of the law and order response to burning churches and how they were all villainized as extremists with wrong think. To be balanced, BLM protesters were gassed and beaten by Canadian law enforcement (while your PM spoke in support of the protests down south.) Trudeau’s unwillingness to talk with the protesters, his besmirching them which you seemed to lightly dismiss, and his “we’ve heard you, go home, your gathering is now illegal” makes me think the Canadian claim to support the right to gather and protest as nothing more than lip service. Also how much is the state paid media influencing these opinion polls.
Wrong about church burners vilified.
JT attended BLM protests!
the people burning down churches absolutely were extremists tf are you talking about. Burning down churches is not a legitimate form of peaceful protest, it's terrorism.
your skills are needed in Moscow right now! 😆😆
Trudeau did say he understood the anger behind 50 churches being burned in Canada by First Nations people, he completely dismissed the violence there. In the emergency act there was exemptions for protest by FN, poc, and refugees.
@@annetoronto5474 where were the exceptions? The emergencies act had nothing to do with POC protests. And while the anger at the church is understandable, actually burning down the churches is still terrorism and nobody but the terrorists themselves disputed that.
Imagine not being upset that your business was interrupted for 2 years but suing a group for interrupting your business for three weeks for the very sake of fighting the people who've been interrupting the entire country's businesses for those two years.
Wouldn't it make more sense to get mad at your leader for not negotiating your business's freedom from these restrictions so that the truckers go away? When what they're asking for is perfectly reasonable, everyone admits was soon to come regardless, and with regards to truckers was the standard for much of the pandemic until recently anyway? Nah, just defer to authority even when they abandon you after two years of screwing with you.
Stop business because there is an actual pandemic killing millions of people =bad.
Stop business because a bunch of far right extremists want to mock science and honk their horns for the freedom to send workers to their deaths = good.
The leaders of this movement are linked to the soldiers of odin, have said the liberals are infested with islamists, push white genocide conspiracy theories, and qanon.
You really think these authoritarians are leading a movement to protest authoritarianism 🤣🤡
@@t00bgazer ratio
@@t00bgazer Except we already know that the covid restrictions were overblown. The virus was never as deadly as initially speculated.
@@t00bgazer"millions". Make that less than 40k.
One thing you need to add is that most of those businesses chose to not open, they had full access to go and gain money from all those people yet didn’t. And also MPs also had full access to go into the parliament building without being in danger. JJ also didn’t mention how thousands upon thousands line highways all across the country in solidarity which polls won’t account for. Most polls are from people who are already signed up and are usually not good at taking a good medium
Honestly, it didn't seem that well thought-out for a protest specifically against the Canadian government. It just sorta damaged the gov't's reputation but overstayed its welcome with the locals , as well as negatively impacting trade between Canada and the US (increasing supply line issues for Americans needing various necessary resources). My own anecdote, as someone living close to the border, the protest has made it difficult to obtain medical supplies and mechanical replacements after a nasty car accident, which to me has little to do with Canadian disagreements with Ottawa (unless these truckers also don't like Americans, so if that's the case, they did a good job).
The amount of protesters waving American flags shows that they do indeed like America
The greatest protests are ones that ONLY effect the person or people you protest against. Any civil disobedience that hurts people who didn't do anything is a quick way to turn people against tou
As an actual American, I’m perfectly fine with the protests. The Canadian government has been overstepping it’s boundaries when it comes to personal decisions.
As an actual Canadian, there are valid criticisms to this protests methods regardless of its motives and the legitimacy of such a cause
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Those polls almost makes me afraid that one day, we will all wake up to see a Canada were free elections and protests are made "orderly".
Well. Even if Anglo Canada agrees with that. Franco Quebec will not
@@johnpijano4786 unfortunately, the French are a minority and regarded as more of a nuisance than a threat when it comes to irreconcilable differences
We just did!
Never clicked a JJ notification so quickly
Im Canadian and I think Canadians are too passive, and passive people tend to want authoritarian leaders, since they lack the strength personally.
It’s funny because most Canadians (admittedly not that many) I’ve met in the states have been the most energetic and boisterous people I’ve met (though we didn’t talk politics)
Canadians have a safe country. If you want to live with less passive people go to Iraq or something
@@solomons5669
Safety is rarely about safety. Safety is the tool of authoritarian that will keep you coddled and ignorant. That's when all advancements in technology stop's and the descent is inhumane.
History around and around it goes the ignorant drags us all down.
@@davidheipel2934 ok conspiracy theorist
Ottawa is not back to normal. The city has erected blockades to block off wellington street and the "red zone" that is still in place more then 6 months later. No weapons were found in the trucks in downtown Ottawa, and even the weapons in Alberta were not at the actual blockade and the Alberta protesters left the blockade willingly as they wanted nothing to do with weapons or killing people.
>JJ goes to America
>Huge trucker protest
>Russia invades Ukraine
Never go on vacation again okay?
For me the biggest issue was the freezing of bank accounts and threats to towing companies of their accounts being stolen along with people that donated money. The government now says they can control who can and cannot donate to a cause, this could come back and bite the Canadian public in the ass in ways no one expected , why you omitted this from your piece is puzzling . That you did so leaves me to never listen to a word that comes out of your mouth and did I hear correctly that you also write for the Washington Post , say no more .
I think one thing that's missing here is calling out the disparity between how protests are handled when private property versus public property are involved. IMO these protests actually did warrant a bigger response than other recent protests because these protests hurt everyone by choking off trade and making public highways and city blocks unusable. In some cases, bystanders got physically hurt, or run off the road putting their lives in danger, or physically trapped on the highway having crossed the border and being unable to turn around.
I live near Ottawa and someone my mom knows people downtown and they lost sleep because of the honking
Don't go on vacation anymore. Canada can't handle it.
As an American, it's very disheartening to see those polls at the end. It really shows how different America and Canada are. I do not think you would see such polls for American protests, if anything bringing in the Army in all but the most extreme cases would likely cause non-supporters to support the protestors to some degree.
It would be interesting to see a video comparing the response of the government and media in Canada to the violent BLM protest back in 2020. Although they didn't happen in Canada much I'd be curious to see how Trudeau and other Liberals spoke about them, and likewise for the Conservatives, and of course the media's narrative. From my perspective it was very biased and glaringly so.
In regards to the lawsuits I wonder what the public response would be to BLM getting sued for similar impacts, what about suing the government for their impact on the economy.
The BLM riots were much smaller scale here and most of us pretty much forgot about it. That being said it would be rather hypocritical to criticise one group for the same methods that the opposition uses
@@cn2673 That was a false flag.
@@GanyuSimpingDegenerate What same tactics? Did the Truckers burn a single building, Mass loot a single business, or beat and/or murder anybody who tried to stop them?
I love how you’re STILL trying to gaslight people about the riots. They aren’t small scale if they’re happening in every major city for months on end.
Huh? Trump sent the army on people he didn’t like, did you forget that?
@@Narutocjw Sent the army? When? He wanted to the military to restore order during mass violence and rioting on a nightly basis, which I notice you conveniently failed to mention and downplay. The military decided it would be best to sit on their asses and let our communities and cities burn to a crisp. My question is when are you going to stop lying?
Thanks for making this video. It's hard to talk about this protest because the minute you agree with the smallest part of either side's position all discussion ends. Am I right in thinking that this protest wasn't really about covid restrictions? This group of people was tired of being dismissed and treated like idiots, and yet we kept doing that before eventually forcing them to leave. No one is saying we have to agree with them, but can't we at least talk to them like human beings?
That would have been nice.
l know some of the people who went to Ottawa, some for the duration, and my sence was that is was all about the restrictions and vaccination mandates. But, that's a sample of 5.
When you say 'this group of people' do you mean truckers/protesters, or something else? Maybe un-vaccinated people?
You are indeed correct. At its heart, it was never about COVID mandates or restrictions, but that was a convenient issue the organizers were able to hitch their wagons to and ride the wave of public anger.
Trudeau and the Liberals completely blundered their way through the whole affair, of course, but the group’s rhetoric and aims prior to the convoy completely contradict their actions.
@@cashcleaner their actions were??
@@cashcleaner and it was most definitely about covid restrictions, people losing their jobs, homes, businesses, slowly losing their sanity. My grandparents had a steep decline in their mental health being locked up in their nursing home, and for what? You can be triple vaxxed and still get covid twice (see Justin Castro).
They seemed to respond to the truckers thinking they were 'children.' They treat Canadians all like children. This is just a game to keep in power and anyone who ideologically disagrees is given a spanking be is justified or not. I've lost faith in Canada after this. A non violent protest was treated like an invading army because it was convenient. Canadians cheered on violence rather then converse or god forbid, listen. You don't need to smash windows to hear an alternative point of view because MAYBE, just maybe, you could be wrong.
The truckers were acting like children.
I'm from Saskatchewan anyone and everyone who makes t-shirts has a version of the fuc|< Trudeau shirts. I'm sure sales are skyrocketing 👕🌾
Parliment in Canada had been cancelled for almost 2 years citing it as not essential. And I dont agree that using polling data is a good idea when making decisions about mandates and public safety. It's sad! There is also a large amount of middle class that don't express their concerns through polls because they just want to live their lives.
Parliament wasn't "cancelled." It went remote, just like schools.
Most of them feel all the parties are crooks
Parliament has not been cancelled for at least two years. It has been conducted mostly remotely via internet because of the pandemic, like most of the rest of Canada's business
It is too bad you didn't get to visit the protest personally. This felt extremely one sided because of your focus on what the media reported. You played a lot of clips of what pundits thought about the event, but True North and others interviewed "white collar" people who attended the protest and they have a very different story. Also many MPs made great statements about freedom in the House of Commons that you could have clipped and didn't. the two minutes of video at the end on the conservative pov didn't really cut it tbh. Hope you enjoyed your vacation! I look forward to your future videos.
Yeah no the protest was a typical "kid friendly" protest in the heart of it (literally, they brought children), and a ball of harassment and assault of the ordinary citzen a couple streets away from the centre, away from the cameras and news posts, where they wouldn't be seen.
i.e. typical sort of protest harassment of unreated students, whether in group or not, who were just heading to the university and committed the only crime of _wearing a mask outside in the trucker polluted air_ to avoid an asthma attack, and did not even realise there was a group of numbnuts right behind.
Source? Personal experience as well as 75% of the students in my class(es)
OK. I watched RebelNews, and so a lot of antivaxx/covidiot bullshit.
What hair products do you use JJ? I love how mutch I've learned about Candian politics from you and are entertaining and charming in your content. You have to give us A video on your hair routine, it would be lighthearted content.
The fact that the US has 10x the population but donated less than half to the truckers and they're trying to use that as an argument against the truckers for being "foreign"? lol
Almost 90% from canada.
Average 100$
As someone from Saskatchewan I can add that a large part of frustration that comes from the conservative prairies is the fact that Trudeau's policies have continued to take money from Saskatchewan and Alberta and give it to the other Provinces while at the same time dismantling our oil production which is costing our jobs while they import oil from other countries. When the Federal election happens the new Prime Minister is announced while we in the prairies are still voting. It's incredibly frustrating to hear the media based in Ontario and Vancouver condescendingly refer to us as "far right" or " extremist fringe elements " while they keep voting to take our money for themselves. Taxation without representation is what the American revolution was fought over ☹
For one thing you don't understand how equalization works, no one is taking sask oir Albertan money. and two the liberal government bought an entire pipeline, for billions of dollars, to help the oil and gas industry
@@TheTroyc1982 I do understand how equalization works. We make more money than the other Provinces and so they take money from us and give it to lower income Provinces.
That's not solely what I'm talking about. The carbon tax takes money from high carbon per capita producing businesses like farming, oil production and mining (which is the majority of our GDP) and redistributes it based on population (which is largely in Ontario, B.C. and Qubec)
And secondly, the Liberal government bought the pipeline because they drove away all private investments and then have tied up it's construction with excessive regulation ( like gender impact studies)
The point about authoritarianism with respect to protesting is rather interesting, i don't know if I would go as far as to saw the majority of Canadians are against all protests but more so protests from the opposite end of the political spectrum. I have a lot of more Liberal family/friends and it's been interesting to see the difference from 2020 with the BLM any move by the police to stop the protests was interpreted as an overreach. As opposed to now where, in a hyperbolic sense, they would sooner see almost every conservative lined up and shot then see another trucker rally. I suspect part of the reason the polls show such a strong resentment towards protests is because a conservative may think of a far-left protest when answering the question and a liberal may think of an alt-right protest when answering the same question similar to how Canadians historically vote PM's out not in. Just my two cents on it
The polls show sharp resentment because the trucker protests and the narrative around them was formulated in online right-wing american circles. All of the rhetoric behind the *support* of the protest was directed through that medium, leaving none or very little argumentation to be made in real life or in ways that would actually answer questions by canadian moderates being affected by truckers.
Most who lived in Canada had an entirely different experience of the protests than that of american right-wingers talking about authoritarianism in abstract. This means that while online you'd see a massive one-sided wave of "le epic truckers are owning le cringe Trudeau", in Canada the people were slowly turning against the truckers due to their weak, nonsensical and simply wrong takes on specific issues and policy (the vaccine passport was already enforced US side, nobody cared about the mandates, etc.).
Lack of foundational, home-grown support for the trucker prostests meant that anybody actually exposed in any way to the protests either hated them or disliked them. This resulted in the opposite one-sided take where unchecked and unchallenged hatred for the trucker protests ended up resulting in these authoritarian views.
"That's the way of road"
-famous Canadian trucker
Question for Canadian conservatives: what is your feeling about it? And will you keep voting conservatives if they became more populist ?
I feel Conservatives are going back to what they were in 2004. They could forfeit the GTA by going back to their roots but if they bring back Bernier's followers, that may be interesting.
Conservatives becoming more populist would actually get me to *start* voting for them
I didn't vote for O'Toole because he was garbage Trudeau lite with no policys worth voting for.
didn't support it, will only vote Conservative if they get Charest in, otherwise it's just more cowboy politics from out west.
@@GammaJK This is deeper than any of that. I have friends in Alberta openly saying that Pat King (convoy leader) may be right that this will need bullets to end the tyranny of the government. BLM and the land defenders would have been shut down immediately had they done the same thing. There is no way they could have pulled off an occupation. Wet su we land defender were dragged off at gunpoint after having their door broken in with an axe. These fucksticks in Ottawa acted as though they were being murdered when they were being ticketed.
I:ve got plenty of friends in Alberta whose minds are clearly polluted with the worst conspiracy theories, the mandates are ending and wine moms in my province are still acting like they need to fight to :Take back Canada - whatever the fuck that means. The men in these low key Soldiers of Odin or Canadian Proud Boy groups that are forming think they:re Neo or some super-intelligent commandos who are ready for when they need to act they say - well what does that mean? When will the domestic terrorism happen? I:m not looking forward to how this plays out. Another January 6th or worse.
Great video! one thing to add is that both go fund me and give send go released that approximately 10% of the funding came from outside of Canada. keep up the great work!
You know inflation is sky high when 'million dollar question' becomes 'ten million dollar question'
Y'know...if I recall correctly, in another video you identified as conservative. I identify as a socialist. And you presented this in such a wonderfully, well rounded fashion. I really appreciate the work you did with this. You seem like a thoughtful and reasonable person JJ. Keep up the great work. I love your videos.
@@robespierre2837 at a fundamental level I think socialism is economically better than capitalism. And I know a lot of conservatives (at least here in America) can be racist or whatever kind of phobic or anti science...but I know that usually that's more the typical Republican, not conservatives as a whole or a monolith. I can be pretty radical in my heart, but I'm not a fascist and I'm not for violence or bigotry. We just all need to be good people. I'm glad and hopeful when various sides can truly see each other as humans and treat each other with kindness and compassion. It's all love ❤
@@robespierre2837 woah an actual fascist in the wild! I thought you were just mythical bogeymen that liberal arts graduates use to scare their wimpy polyamourous soy boyfriends
Neat 📷
JJ: "...had a large cache of weapons..."
Typical American Midwesterner: 《Sees image》
"Large?"
A cache of automatic weapons does not need to be large. You don't need them for hunting - unless you plan on turning the kill into lead tainted hamburger in the field. All the body armor and stuff - you don't need that for hunting either. I am not anti gun I am anti asshole. These guys were looking for a clash with government and they were going to keep pushing until they got it.
@@evasartorius9528 I'm not saying those guys are nice, I'm just saying their "cache" would be considered a good start around here. As far as the automatic weapons, I've taken many deer and his with them, with one shot. Turns out, the ergonomics that make military weapons more effective makes ten more effective for hunting, too. Also, they're fun to shoot on a range. Also, they're good for self defense. Body armor just is. What are you going to do, ban ownership of steel by civilians? As far as clashing with the Canadian Government...I mean... it's not a free country.
@@andersmaidment You are trying to turn it into less free country with BS. You can say that they are good for hunting -better in fact but back when people actually hunted for food they did very well without them. You don't need body armor to hunt, unless you are hunting things that can shoot back.
You admit you just like playing with them. If you need to hunt you don't need them and I don't think they should be allowed. I grew up on moose meat I am not anti hunting or reasonable tools like my Dad's old .308.
You guys are just trying to bafflegab to justify possessing assault weapons.
@@andersmaidment And part 2. What kind of world does your mind live in. Self defense? How many times have you needed a gun - much less an assault weapon to protest yourself, your family, or your property. Where I live more people are hurt and killed by the accidental discharge of these things. For security I use yapping dogs, that way I don't accidentally kill someone who is stumbling through the dark trying to find help.
@@evasartorius9528 What an ivory tower you must live in. There are bad people in the world and you should be very glad you haven't run into them. We've had riots across this country the last two years that have burned down whole neighborhoods. I, for one, am glad I have the freedom to protect everything I've worked so hard for. And yes, before you ask the question, my stuff is worth more than the life of a looter.
JJ I think it’s important to acknowledge how unreliable polls have proved themselves to be in recent years. I think 2016 made that very apparent
What are you talking about?
the polls were correct in 2016. Trump lost the popular vote dramatically. The mistake wasn't bad polling, but media ignoring how the american electoral system actually works when discussing the poll data.
@@stoutyyyy THANK YOU! He was less popular. The polls weren't wrong about that.
Smooth brain weeb doesn't know how polls work
@@JJMcCullough Polls are often done with various sampling methods and as a result they can miss all kinds of people, on purpose or by accident. most political polls that are released to the public are not actual metrics of popularity measurement but tools to induce conformity achieved by playing with the metrics of who is counted in the final poll. Publicly available polls showed a 10-1 Favoring for the truckers whenever they were posted,including the daily polls from the CBC and Star.
A bit late to comment here... lol
I'm from QC, a province that had the most severe covid mandates in North America, and among the worst in the world actually. We were the only ones in North America to have 2 curfews and our government even closed down the construction industry.
Lockdowns and closing down businesses were bad enough, putting thousands of small businesses out of business and contributing to massive federal government spending programs responsible for the inflation we have today. Forcing children (or anyone really) to wear masks for 7+ hours a day was not right and vaccine passports allowed for a level of discrimination that was almost suicidal for many (and sadly literally for some).
The trucker convoy was loved by A LOT MORE Canadians then the media or polls claimed. See, for 2ish years, being against covid restrictions in Canada felt like being a lone wolf. The trucker convoy not only made millions accross Canada realize "damn I'm not alone!", it resonated with the world.
Ironically, covid restrictions accross Canada dropped right left and center, including QC when 2 weeks prior, they detailed plans to make them more severe.
I’m centre/centre-left.
Watching how JT handled the protest has forever disgusted me.
He never even met with them.
So, when I look at the effect of not meeting with them, it will cause a protest to be louder to be heard.
A louder protest is more obnoxious to those in the vicinity.
So, in not meeting with them (and disproportionately amplifying any negative images) JT caused a separate anti convoy metric to occur that was removed from anything they were protesting. Thus, granting him the approval to invoke the emergencies act.
FINTRAC (the financial monitoring), iirc, basically said that the monetary movements were simply people donating to a cause, absent anything fishy.
The day the police moved in, the senate was shut down - preventing their debate on the Emergencies Act.
Had they voted no (there were some very thorough legal debates on the no side), what would have happened?
Between the financial issues and possibility of senate voting no (in their delayed debate), JT withdrew the evocation, so while the physical obstruction was removed, what was gained? In my perspective, manufactured approval, nothing more.
I doubt a mob of people waving "Fuck Trudeau" banners have a reason to feel snubbed that a guy named Trudeau wouldn't talk to them
You've kinda set a "tone" there
@@notlikely4468 yeah why didn’t he let them lynch him? totally unreasonable!
Given that the Canadian Senate isn't democratically elected, their opinion should be worthless.
@@Nimish204 depends on province, some are democratically selected.
However, The end result is that what ever candidate is sent from the province has to be appointed by the Governor General on advice from the PM, which effectively means that the PM picks who enters the senate. This is the head of one legislative body decided who enters the legislative body meant to serve as a check and balance on the very legislative body which grants the person the office of PM. Yeah, we have a failure of separation of powers here.
Their role is supposed to be representative of the democracy of the provinces, as in Ontario and Quebec have the population to push a vote over something which would apply to all provinces. Is something like that fair if MPs from every other province vote no? No.
Think of an apartment complex, you live in #1 unit, 4 people live in unit #2, 3 in another unit #3 , 2 in #4 and 1 in unit #5. 11 people in 5 units.
If #2 and #3 want to party, that’s 7/11 (64%) people who want to change the environment for all.
Do you have the right to file a noise complaint? If #1,#4 & #5 file you’d have 3/5 (60%) of the units who vote no to a party.
Who’s in the right? What would happen?
Think of it as HoC is the Democratic will of the country as an average, and the senate is the democratic will of the components that make up how Canada’s people are organized.
“Sober second thought” as our first PM put it. It’s role is to suppress tyranny of the majority en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority , because mob rule is the dark underbelly of the democratic process.
The issue is that the senate needs reformation. Appointment from premier’s only or provincial elections completely detached from the office of PM.
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Nice analysis JJ. I think you forgot to add the role of the premier of Ontario, Ford, in the protests. Ford , a conservative politician, is looking reelection this year, and did not help at all in the clearing the protest sites in both Ottawa and Windsor. My guess is that he was trying to protect his image and letting Trudeau get attacked but at the cost of not protecting people from Ontario.
@@pawaniyer Nah, Ottawa is as red as commie blood, I don't think Ford was worried about that, he didn't support the cause, I think he's corrupt personally and his actions stem from that, whatever private lobbying and enrichment happened is more likely to dictate his response tha how he actually feels about the issue. Besides that, it's the federal money he gets from towing the Federal government line that he was most concerned with, broadly the conservative base that elected him are disgusted with mandates and the vax pass but Ford only got in because of how despised Wynn was, he's really a Liberal in blue, he got so many formerly liberal votes who got robbed blind by Wynn's energy corruption that he had to make a strong stand against the truckers to keep them happy while not forcing any action that would destroy his conservative base because without either faction I don't think he could win. We're fucked at all levels of government unfortunately.
@@pawaniyer But most mandates in Ontario were put in place by Ford, if he agreed with them he had the power as premier to revoke the mandates at any point since health is under provincial control...
@@bencheevers6693 Go back to America mate. I am a Social Democrat and I don't mind.
I'd like to see you appear on Viva Frei's "Sidebar" show with Robert Barnes.
I think you'd all benefit a lot from the collaboration.
As I remember it, the Canadian requirement for truckers to be vaccinated in order to enter Canada was simply created to match the same US requirement to enter the US. Wasn't it?
Shhhh! Muh, muh authoritarianism
@@paritybit-q7e 😁
J.J. leaves D.C. as truckers arrive. Maybe the correlation runs deeper than we realize. J.J. leaves a trucker shaped hole whenever he leaves.
J. J., I have to point out the photo of the weapons the police “seized” at the Coutts border at time stamp 16:50. That same photo was actually used in an article in 2021, but was later used in an article to deem the truckers violent. Meaning that the armoury seized is not connected to truckers in any way. I have proof of that
Do you have a link for this? Im actually curious and it doesn’t surprise me.
Thank you for making this! I just saw a video of Canadian cops trying to arrest a restaurant owner for serving truckers & was VERY confused lol
yes poisoning is illegal
What? So in Canada it's illegal to serve protesters?
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Crazy how 71% Canadians would waive their right for peaceful protest just to have an illusion of stability. Thank God I was never able to immigrate there
You think that any western so-called democracy ever had that right?