Annie Bergeron-Oliver breaks down what we learned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's testimony about invoking the Emergencies Act.
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Did Trudeau ever try to negotiate a way to disperse the protest before resorting to using the emergencies act?
@Tyler Burlington Machining yes I am. There were some domestic terrorists in there.. Pat King is one of them
@nhlpa17 So, 1 of how many thousands? Your argument is .00003% approximately?
@nhlpa17 If you consider these men women and children terrorists, You need to pack your bags and move to a secluded island. Never to see or speak to another human again.
@nhlpa17 For you to imply that these honest, kind, hard working, fellow Canadians are terrorists, with zero fact to back up such a claim is disappointing. Only because of a different political view. This does not make you cool. It only solidifies the fact that you are unable to have a constructive conversation that could possibly educate anyone else reading this correspondence. I am open to having my mind changed. I hope you are to. The way you conduct yourself is not winning anyone over though.
@/-GUMBY- the fact that you were terrorized by honking says it all !
You can’t pick and choose when laws apply, not how democracy works 🤷
It does for them
Everyone has a say means everyone is equally responsible.
Yes you can tf? That’s exactly how law works. It applies under one circumstance, but maybe not another. If the convoy army thinks like this, it’s precisely why they’re losing. Lmao. Very very very basic concepts.
@FarmersAreCool I would recommend reading the Constitution as it requires by law, a free Democratic process.
@London J. 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
How about the fact he could have sat down with the truckers and OMG! TALK TO THEM!
how do you have a productive talk with a bunch of bulls in their lifted trucks blasting their foghorns
Which group? The occupiers couldn’t even get on the same page themselves.
And talk about what exactly? Everything that had already been communicated through a whole range of different mediums? To what end?
The demands were beyond outrageous
Why, they paraded around their F Trudeau flags. I wouldn’t give them the time of day either.
What’s interesting is that you have the most divisive person in Canadian history testifying with a narcissistic smirk on his face.
Ty Ty Ty for seeing the narcissism and calling it down… a Canadian version of the EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES
Dupers delight is what it’s called
Trudeau is a greasy megalomaniac!!!
The freedumbers are the divisive ones.
Now lets hear an Unbiased opinion!!!!
You will have to look elsewhere 😜
You mean an opinion that agrees with your bias right?
So they wanted a reason to evoke the EMERGENCIES ACT since COVID started and the convoy gave them the opportunity they missed in February of 2020
That’s true and that should terrify every Canadian! Because they will use it again now that a precedent has been set.
@cinder 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
Why is he smiling? What the hell is so funny? His smirk tell you everything!
*WHAT A INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE, AND EMBARRASSMENT FOR ALL REAL CANADIANS!!!*
No Canadian I know is embarrassed…. In the slightest. Only thing embarrassing was this protest.
@Richard C let’s see how many thumbs down you get
@Dino not many lol, the way you idiots act you’d think you were violently squashed, stopping you terrorists was done quite well and smoothly 😉
@Dino I see zero thumbs down 😂
Nice try tho cupcake
We didn’t learn anything other then these judges are playing a show and our tax dollars have already paid them off 😂
I’m getting really annoyed to where my tax dollars are going!
@Pete Werner 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️.
So the EMA was already in mind before the convoy got to Ottawa?
That smirk is an insult to all Canadians.
I wish someone would permanently wipe that smug smirk off the face of the planet.
@DrD6452 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
Most Canadian love this clown. They absolutely adore a tinhat little dictator that paints himself in blackface “so many times he can’t remember”, and jumps up and down making grunting noises. Until Canada wakes up and gets this pintsized bigot out of the PM spot, it’s better to just ignore anything they have to say.
I loved it
How can he be removed from office??? Anyone with any knowledge on this?
Asinine idea, Tim. Justin Dildeau is not likely to defeat Pierre Poilievre, but if the governor general uses the Power of Dismissal (POD) like in Australia in 1975, the Liberals will just pick a new leader – possibly someone who *_is_* a match for Poilievre. Let’s hope they’re all stupid enough to stick with Dildeau.
He perjured himself multiple times. There was an audible gasp in the room when he declared he DID NOT call the unvaccinated bad names. Testimonials of unjabbed Canadians were recited to him and he shrugged them off like they didn’t even exist. This country still has a long way to go to heal from the damage this monster has inflicted on the country.
@b k 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
@Martha MacDonald 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
@Martha MacDonald Paid Liberal troll. Bye bye
The unvaccinated do tend to be less educated and more racist and bigoted to other minorities so what he said was 100% accurate.
@Martha MacDonald Is your brain damage from a car accident or Downe sprinkles?
Trudeau incriminates himself every time. If the EA was at the top of their minds from the beginning, that would indicate that exhausting all measures and making every effort to not recklessly and unnecessarily use such a drastic and dangerous measure that would cause violence and endangerment to innocent Canadians was not their priority. It’s illogical and doesn’t excuse any corrupt or illegal activity. The threshold was not met as per definition under CSIS and parliamentary privilege is quite simply Canadian law not applying to government officials and permission to commit illegal activity and conceal it. And that’s my opinion as one of the many Canadian witnesses that did witness the violence coming from the government officials and not the protesters as did many human beings across the globe via the internet. There is no end to Trudeau’s corruption and he is an embarrassment to Canada.
👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
How about listening to protesters and addressing the issues? Was that ever on the table as a potential solution?
We are not governed by temper tantrum nor do we take health advice from truckers.
Shutting off peoples accounts is a bit Orwellian for me, scary stuff. He shoulda let the Ottawa police deal with it
He invoked the act because he was afraid of Canadians, plain and simple.
The most disturbing fact is that after all these charades nobody will go to jail, or get punished in any way. They’ll just say it was necessary period.
👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
dont be so sure that they dont still jail Tamarah and some of the other organizers, yea the real criminals will walk tho
The organizers were arrested and the donors bank accounts were frozen, the actual criminals were toppled
Ya, I think Lich and her gang are headed to the slammer
So…with an eye to enacting the EA act all along, he eventually sought “tools” that might suddenly be helpful to dispersing the protest (and only available through invocation). Isn’t that backwards? Sounds to me like he solicited in order to give himself “justification” to do what he wanted to do all along. He was thinking of doing this two years ago for a different reason…he finally gathered the nerve and found the pretense.
I hope the next government somehow ensures that this never happens again in Canada. This much power wielding MUST only be permitted with very strict and specific conditions and controls, not namby-pamby definition changing and obfuscation. Especially not without a more rigorous, bi-partisan assessment before invocation.
👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
Oh, how wonderful! The boy-prince was eager to wield emergency powers against Canadians from day one! What a great guy…
👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️