Canada's Emergency Act Should Warn Us of What Is Coming In The Next Crisis

 Canada's Emergency Act Should Warn Us of What Is Coming In The Next Crisis – Jon Miltimore - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5217 At a "ladies night" fundraiser in Toronto in 2013, an up-and-coming politician was asked which nation's administration he admired most in the world. Wearing a pale blue shirt and a smile, the fresh-faced Liberal Party leader answered Communist China. "There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we needto go green, we need to start, you know, investing in solar," Justin Trudeau told the group of women. "There is a flexibility that I know Prime Minister Stephen Harper must dream about: having a dictatorship where you can do whatever you wanted, that I findquite interesting." The comments drew fire, particularly from Canadians who noted China's oppressive regime and documented human rights abuses. "It seems to be that he's not well-informed," a member of a round-table told the CBC. Nevertheless, the comments proved to be little more than a speed bump in Trudeau's political ascent. In November 2015, Trudeau was sworn in as Canada's twenty-third primeminister, succeeding Harper. In 2020, thousands of farmers from all over India traveled to the capital city of Delhi. Protesting agriculture policies they believed threatened their livelihoods, theyset up encampments and clashed with police. Responding to the situation, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged the authorities to show restraint. ​​"Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest," Trudeau insisted, to the annoyanceof the Indian government. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Or should we say the foot is in the mouth, as Trudeau sparked anger on Wednesday when he accused a Jewish MP of 'standing with peoplewho wave swastikas' after she criticized his handling of the Freedom Convoy truckers' anti-vaccine protests. Throwing 'Oil on the Fire' Trudeau's comments deserve scrutiny since he now finds himself in the global spotlight. On Monday, Trudeau announced he was activating rarely used emergency powers in an effort to suppress the Freedom Convoy, a movement originally created to protest vaccinationmandates for truckers crossing the US border that has morphed into a broader protest against COVID restrictions. "The blockades are harming our economy and endangering public safety," Trudeau said in a news conference. "We cannot and will not allow illegal and dangerous activitiesto continue." By invoking Canada's Emergencies Act--which in 1988 replaced the War Measures Act--Trudeau can use federal law enforcement to assist provincial governments and expand itssearch and seizure of private goods that sustain the protest movement. "We are making these changes because we know that these (crowdfunding) platforms are being used to support illegal blockades and illegal activity which is damaging the Canadianeconomy," said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who used the word "terrorism" in her comments. Trudeau also said he intends to use federal forces to support provincial forces. "Despite their best efforts, it is now clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement's ability to effectively enforce the law," he said. The prime minister's actions, however, drew criticism from civil rights groups, who accused the administration of engaging in undemocratic actions. "The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act," the Canadian Civil Liberties Association said. "This law creates a high and clearstandard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met." According to Reuters, premiers in Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan also came out against Trudeau's plan. "We really don't need to throw oil on the fire," said Quebec's Premier François Legault. Trudeau's orders, aimed in part at cutting off funds to protesters, also have a wider scope than previously reported - which is "forcing portfolio managers and securitiesfirms to take a harder look at who they are doing business with," according to Bloomberg. The new rules make demands of a broad list of entities -- including banks, investment firms, credit unions, loan companies, securities dealers, fundraising platforms, insurancecompanies and fraternal benefit societies. They must determine whether they're in "possession or control of property" of a person who's attending an illegal protest or providing supplies to demonstrators, according to orders published by the government lateTuesday night. If they find such a person in their customer list, they must freeze their accounts and report it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Canada's intelligence service, theregulations say. Any suspicious transactions must also be reported to the country's anti-money-laundering agency, known as Fintrac. -Bloomberg Trudeau's Justice Minister made a startling admission yesterday that on how they will be targeting convoy supporters saying: 'If you are a member of a pro-Trump movementwho's donating... you ought to be worried' about your bank account being frozen. Trudeau has also labeled his political opponents as white nationalist extremists despite a large number of minority groups representing the trucker industry. The state-fundedCanadian media was only too happy to oblige with this description in it's news reports. Additionally the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been active in outing those who had given donations to the Freedom Convoy after the donor list of a crowdfunding sourcewas hacked. Marion Isabeau Ringuette, who was Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones's director of communications, lost her job 10 days after making the donation, according to the TorontoStar. After the donor list to a GiveSendGo campaign supporting the protests was stolen and leaked by hackers this week, Isabeau-Ringuette's identity was apparently decipheredand reported to her employer, although she only used her initials when making the donation. 'Ms. Isabeau-Ringuette no longer works for the Ontario government,' Ivana Yelich, Ford's executive director of media relations, told the Star. The CBC also outed a prominent business owner in London, Ontario, as giving the largest single donation to the Freedom Convoy. Holden Rhodes, who owns Killarney Mountain Lodge, donated $25,000. He was just as unapologetic after being outed by the CBC, telling journalists: 'The overreach on the last two years has been astounding, but in the last two weeks in Canadait has been absolutely alarming for anyone believes in a peaceful and free society,' he said. The sharing of donor information even caught the attention of Democratic "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who slammed journalists whose reporting on the data breachof donors to the Canadian Freedom Convoy is leading to the harassment of private citizens. Speaking of overreach, in a crackdown on the protests, an Ontario Provincial Police officer knocked on the door of Nadine Ellis-Maffei's farmhouse last week to hand hera card and a pamphlet after seeing her post to the Freedom Convoy's Facebook group, video of the incident shows. Ellis-Maffei said in the post that she was considering attending the protest in Ottawa. She said she had not been part of any demonstrations at this point. 'Because of the protests happening province wide, yes we have been monitoring the protest. So there's a protest coming up, I'm simply providing information about a peacefulprotest,' the officer said in the video taken last Thursday by Ellis-Maffei. 'I was flabbergasted,' said the mother of three, who operates a farm in Ontario's Peterborough County. She told the Toronto Sun: 'I still can't believe it.' Ellis-Maffei compared the incident to the 'thought police and Big Brother' from the dystopian novel 1984. And if you though crypto was a secret way to get around donating to such causes - think again. Canadian authorities have sanctioned 34 cryptocurrency wallets connected tothe “Freedom Convoy”: Cryptocurrency news site Coindesk reported that the Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ordered all regulated Canadian financial firms to halt transactionsfrom 34 crypto wallets tied to the Freedom Convoy and other truckers protests around Canada, in accordance with the public emergency declared by Trudeau on Monday. The Globe and Mail, a Canadian news outlet, confirmed that the police agencies ordered severalcrypto exchanges and financial institutions to "cease facilitating any transactions" with all of the wallets as part of an investigation "in relation to illegal acts falling under the scope of the Emergency Measures Act." The Test of Power Trudeau's actions are indeed dangerous. Yet as American history shows, the line between a peaceful protest and criminal activity is not always clear. The Boston Tea Party is fondly remembered as a patriotic action in US history, but I had a professor in college who suggested it was an act of "domestic terrorism," a viewnot as uncommon as many would believe. The events of 2020 also showed how peaceful protests can sometimes spiral into something unpeaceful very quickly (or "mostly peaceful," a euphemism for violent). For many, unfortunately, whether a protest is legitimate depends less on which methods are being used and more on which cause is being championed. I imagine many of Trudeau's current defenders were among those outraged at the idea the US military should be deployed on American soil to put down civilian protests, unrest,and violence. What's particularly troubling about Trudeau's escalation of the crisis is that the protests in Canada have been peaceful. Now, whether intentionally "snarling" traffic isa legitimate form of protest is a fair question, since impeding traffic does infringe on the rights of others. But it's a stretch to suggest it meets the definition of violence, and it can be resolved by local authorities without declaring a national emergency. The events in Canada represent something much bigger than the truckers and Canada's economy. As Martin Luther King Jr. saw, non-violent protest is one of the few tools peoplewithout power have to resist the injustices of those who have it. To respond to peaceful protests with more power is to completely miss King's important lessons on non-violence. But in Trudeau's case, perhaps it should not surprise us. In 1989, the Chinese government faced its own "blockade" as student-led demonstrations in Beijing attempted to impede the Chinese military's advance into Tiananmen Square.Even though the demonstrations were peaceful, the Chinese Communist Party declared martial law and sent in the People's Liberation Army--equipped with rifles, automatic weapons, and tanks. Nobody knows for sure how many died in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The Chinese government said 200. A source for the United Kingdom estimated 10,000. Fatalities aside,what most people remember is the image of a young man staring down a Chinese tank, whose driver refused to crush the brave protester before him. Justin Trudeau, however, remembers something else. For him, China's regime represented a dream: "a dictatorship where you can do whatever you wanted." Trudeau's 2013 remarks do not mean he will crush civilians with tanks, of course. But they do indicate he has failed the test of power--and for politicians, there's no biggertest. VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM