You have commented 358 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Great White North
Biden urges Trudeau get even TOUGHER with Freedom Convoy: Ontario authorizes cops to seize vehicles and fine drivers, government asks court to freeze $8.6m donated on GiveSendGo and mayor warns truckers will be 'physically removed'
2022-02-11
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Canadian trucker protesting since mid-Jan against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Covid-19 vaccine mandate

  • International route drivers must be double jabbed, and 85 percent are, but the demonstrators oppose the rule

  • Since Monday at least three US-Canadian border bridges have been blocked in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba

  • Ontario's Ambassador Bridge, between Detroit and Windsor, is North America's busiest international crossing

  • Ontario premier Doug Ford asked courts to freeze donations to truckers on a crowdfunding site GiveSendGo

  • Trudeau said he spoke to officials, accused drivers of 'hurting jobs, businesses, and our country's economy'
Related:
Justin Trudeau: 2022-02-08 Canadian Government Getting Very Upset Over Freedom Truckers, Declare State Of Emergency
Justin Trudeau: 2022-02-04 GoFundMe Pauses Truckers Campaign at $10 Million (Canadian)
Justin Trudeau: 2022-02-04 ‘Red-Handed' – ‘Obviously, My Family Has Historical Ties with China': How Beijing Bought Off the Trudeaus
Related:
Freedom Convoy: 2022-02-08 Canadian Government Getting Very Upset Over Freedom Truckers, Declare State Of Emergency
Freedom Convoy: 2022-02-08 Exclusive: Winnipeg car ramming suspect identified as Antifa member
Freedom Convoy: 2022-02-04 GoFundMe Pauses Truckers Campaign at $10 Million (Canadian)
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  3 lb monster ??

Tito's and Jack Daniels promised weight loss!
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-11 20:57  

#16  I hope no one decides to blowup the 3 or 4 most important bridges.
Posted by: Airandee   2022-02-11 20:25  

#15  though why I say so I'm not sure

Sometimes your brain just does stuff. We are all at the mercy of that 3 lb monster lurking behind our eyes.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-02-11 18:54  

#14  ^ An actual place, btw, though why I say so I'm not sure, since most of you will've experienced the Mutiny and all that at first hand or at least gotten the skinny in emails from friends.
Posted by: Omomock Lumumba4849   2022-02-11 14:33  

#13  #5 tires slashed

Forget the dull places you've come from
Where life was so numbingly humdrum!
Live, free of the presence
Of Trumpkin scum peasants!
- Commander, Cantonment of Dum Dum
Posted by: Omomock Lumumba4849   2022-02-11 14:16  

#12  They took the truckers fuel, gave it back under court order, but only after filling the cans with water.

Sounds like a violent, provocative act.
Do they want violence?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-11 13:48  

#11  This is going the way of our civil rights issues from the 60's. The governments are doubling down on their control over blue collar types trying to just get their voices heard over this medical tyranny. The governments hard line leaves the people backed into an ugly corner. No talks, no negotiations, just threats and violent actions by the government. If the government does not back down and have talks this will all end in violence, and real violence will ensue. They took the truckers fuel, gave it back under court order, but only after filling the cans with water. They are pulling the truckers passports, confiscating their funding, arresting them, beating them. Now Canada is in a state of emergency, the military refused to help the police today. The next step is violence. It seems the Canadian government is now willing to use it. When they do they will shut the communications down, a bad plan as it will get out anyway. The world will be as shocked as they were over the violence from Selma. Then we will have change. I am proud of the Canadians doing this, the liberty bell is ringing. Oh Canada...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-02-11 13:45  

#10  
Trudeau could end up facing a vote of no confidence.
He's survived them before. I have found no mention or discussion of this actually succeeding in the present situation.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-02-11 12:48  

#9  I don't know much about the Canadian parliament but if, as I suspect, it is modeled after the UK parliament, Trudeau could end up facing a vote of no confidence. Wouldn't that frost his balls?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-02-11 11:56  

#8  From Bari Weiss’s Substack:

What the Truckers Want
I’ve spoken to 100 of the protestors gathered in the Canadian capital. What's happening is far bigger than the vaccine mandates.

Posted by: trailing wife   2022-02-11 11:51  

#7  I know there is a real slide scale going on for stupid moves, but this shit, the Brandon Handlers, they just put out there that if there were to be something similar in the US, and now especially Canada, any opposition, problems, etc. ties straight to The White House.

accused drivers of 'hurting jobs, businesses, and our country's economy

Oh that's fucking rich. 52 Curve Flattens ago they were godddammed heroes.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-02-11 10:51  

#6  The pols see this as a threat to their authority. It wouldn't even be happening if they hadn't gambl3d their "authority" on the now completely busted COVIDian vaxx mandates and other dumb measures. They are doing this to themselves and are too dumb to realize when to cut their losses.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-11 10:19  

#5  Cops wake up the next morning and find their pov's tires slashed. Wonder if they'll wake up.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-11 10:02  

#4  GiveSendGo Defies Fascist Canadian Govt. Order to Freeze Freedom Convoy Trucker Funds
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-11 09:57  

#3  They better be prepared to fight if they do try to physically remove them.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-02-11 09:28  

#2  GiveSendGo already told the court to piss off.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-11 09:19  

#1  Property seizure, a popular method of population control.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-11 09:05  

00:00