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After Reading The EA Report Doug Ford, Pierre Poilievre And Others Should Be Charged With Sedition

Feb 18, 2023
Not sure what some of you expected, but you can start the countdown to the end of Pierre Poilievere’s political career and several others, including Doug Ford, Melissa Lantsman, Candace Bergen, and 52 other MPs who committed sedition by aiding an abetting foreign and domestic enemies who tried to bring down the Canadian Government.

CBC: Justice Paul Rouleau has released his long-awaited report on the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell the anti-vaccine mandate convoy protests in Ottawa and in the border communities of Windsor, Ont. and Coutts, Alta.

The five-volume, 2,000-page report is a deep dive into the demonstrations that gripped some parts of the country for more than a month in the winter of 2022.

After six weeks of public testimony, and with unprecedented access to cabinet documents, Rouleau detailed everything from the genesis of the convoy movement to the disruptive and sometimes dangerous nature of the demonstrations. He described an extraordinary police and government response that ultimately brought the protests to an end.

While Rouleau, a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, made 56 recommendations to better manage future large-scale protests — including a call for major reforms to how police work these events — his main conclusion was that the federal government met the legal threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act.

Here’s a look at the highlights:

1. Federal government was justified in using the Emergencies Act

Rouleau found it was reasonable for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to invoke the Emergencies Act and its powers to bring the protests to an end.

While some critics have said it was a heavy-handed approach to a protest against an infringement on fundamental rights, Rouleau concluded “the very high threshold for invocation was met.”

He said the ongoing disruptions to daily life in Ottawa, the reports of harassment, the potential for life-threatening violence, the calls to overthrow the government and the damage to Canada’s economy and reputation were all rightly cited to justify the law’s use.

“In my view, there was credible and compelling information supporting a reasonable belief that the definition of a threat to the security of Canada was met,” Rouleau said in his report.

In his final report, Justice Paul Rouleau concluded that the government’s decision to use the act was ‘appropriate’ and pointed to a series of failures in the police response to the convoy protests.

He said the Emergencies Act powers were used by the RCMP and other police services to compel towing companies to remove trucks and other vehicles that were assembled in Ottawa’s downtown core.

He concluded that the Emergencies Act-related prohibition on providing “material support” to the protesters ended the flow of cash and starved the demonstration of the funds it needed to continue.

That prohibition, in combination with a freeze on some other assets, had “a significant impact in encouraging protesters to leave unlawful protests” and “had at least some impact on the footprint of the protests prior to police enforcement action,” Rouleau wrote.

Importantly, the Emergencies Act also allowed out-of-jurisdiction police officers like those working for the RCMP to enforce provincial and municipal by-laws in Ottawa and elsewhere.

Without the act in place, city police would have had to swear in every individual out-of-town officer before they could assist with police operations.

“This allowed for rapid deployment of RCMP and officers from other provinces to assist the Ottawa Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police,” Rouleau said.

2. There was ‘a failure of federalism’

Rouleau said the various levels of government did not work well together during the protests.

The events of January and February 2022 can be seen “as a failure of federalism,” he said.

Rouleau said Canada’s system demands that “governments at all levels, and those who lead them … rise above politics and collaborate for the common good.

“This did not always happen.”

He concluded that Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his government essentially washed their hands of their duty to protect the people of Ottawa, and erroneously claimed that the protests were a federal problem because the activity was largely concentrated in the parliamentary precinct and the surrounding area.

Rouleau found that Ford did not become meaningfully involved in ending the protests until the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont. — a key conduit for cross-border trade — was blocked by anti-mandate protesters.

The Ottawa occupation had a “striking” effect on residents of the city core, Rouleau said.

He pointed to the protest’s impacts on residents’ physical and psychological health, “assaultive behaviour,” overwhelmed police services that created an overall “safety risk” to residents, fire hazards, constant noise and diesel fumes, and the consequences for housebound seniors and other vulnerable people.

Rouleau said the people of Ottawa had every reason to expect that Ford and his government would do more to help federal and local officials bring the protest to an end.

“Ottawa is a municipality created by the province of Ontario and subject to its jurisdiction. The province is ultimately responsible for effective policing in Ottawa. Given that the city and its police services were clearly overwhelmed, it was incumbent on the province to become visibly, publicly and wholeheartedly engaged from the outset,” Rouleau said.

He said Ford and his government should have assured the people of Ottawa that they “had not been abandoned by their provincial government during a time of crisis.”

“Had there been greater collaboration at the political level from the start, it could well have assisted in ironing out the communication, jurisdictional and resourcing issues that plagued the early response to the protests,” Rouleau said.

He said while there was “dysfunction” and “deficiencies” in the policing response, former police chief Peter Sloly doesn’t deserve all the blame.

Rouleau said there was some “scapegoating” of Sloly by politicians and others, and his role was “unduly enlarged.”

3. Cross-border vaccine mandates, Trudeau’s comments 

Rouleau concluded that the federal government’s vaccine mandate for cross-border workers — coupled with Trudeau’s controversial remark that only “a small fringe minority of people” were opposed to these COVID-related restrictions — provided the spark for the trucker convoy.

Trudeau’s “fringe minority” comment “served to energize the protesters, hardening their resolve and further embittering them toward government authorities,” Rouleau said.

Trudeau said Friday he wished he had “phrased it differently.”

Trudeau said people were “worried” and “wanting to be heard” at the time, and his comments were a bit careless.

Rouleau said Trudeau and other government leaders should have made more of an effort to “acknowledge that the majority of protesters were exercising their fundamental democratic rights” and that many felt genuine frustration about “perceived” government “overreach.”

“Messaging by politicians, public officials and, to some extent, the media should have been more balanced, and drawn a clearer distinction between those who were protesting peacefully and those who were not,” Rouleau said.

Rouleau said that, after two years of COVID restrictions, the government’s move to follow the U.S. and impose new cross-border restrictions at that stage of the pandemic was “the spark” for the convoy protests.

4. A call for reform

Among Rouleau’s 56 recommendations is an urgent call to review how policing is carried out in Ottawa.

Rouleau said Ottawa is a “complex” jurisdiction with four police services — the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS), the Ottawa Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police and the RCMP — responsible for various aspects of protecting the nation’s capital. He said there may need to be a change.

So that’s it. The Ottawa Convoy was an illegal, dangerous occupation aided by compromised/useless Ottawa cops, political interference by federal conservatives like Melissa Lantsman, Pierre Poilievere, and “Motel” Candace Bergen and Doug Ford helped facilitate the whole thing by “abandoning” the people of Ontario for political gain.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford LAUGHED at the people of Ottawa who were held hostage for three weeks. Doug WANTED the Convoy to happen, so he and Sylvia Jones flat-out lied about the OPP detachments being sent to help police the Convoy. Dou Forf WANTED the people of Ottawa to suffer, and he WANTED 8k hillbillies to threaten the life of federal liberals and the lives of Ottawans.

It was not only preventable; Doug Ford’s government willingly helped convicts and organizers by lying about what he was doing (nothing) and blaming it on a policing problem (he’s the head of every Ontario Policing unit) that he created.

What about the Convoy (former) number 1 supporter, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre? The same guy who marched with extremists during the Canada day convoy. The same doucher who publicly marched in the now HIGHLY illegal occupation of Ottawa, causing BILLIONS in losses to the Canadian Economy?

He says it’s still Justin Trudeau’s fault, something about shit being expensive in 2023 and how the asshole brigade of extremist hillbillies only went to Ottawa because they wanted to be left alone, which is REALLY fucking ironic. And dumb. Because Pierre’s dumb.

Any conservative voter or Trudeau hater is going with the “Trump Excuse” today.

“It was rigged” has been trending for 12 hours and probably won’t stop for days. You’ll see A LOT of crazy coming from losers who lost. Like one of the organizers, former NHL plug Theo Fleury, who fucking HATES Canada.

How often will you support people who tell you they love Canada with their words but try to destroy it with their actions?

You can’t take ANY conservative politician supportive of violent and hateful rhetoric. THAT’S all the Convoy was. A hate disco organized by conservative religious cocks who hate this country and the “nonbeliever” citizens in it.

You lost because that’s what losers do. Make emotionally stunted decisions based on their low iqs and hatred that springs from Jesus’s love.

Dumb fucks. Let’s start these criminal trials for the dorks who made it all possible.

 

 

Schadenfreude is my DRUUUUUGGG.

DB

 

 

Dean Blundell

Dean Blundell is a Canadian radio personality. Best known as a longtime morning host on CFNY-FM (The Edge) in Toronto, Ontario. In 2015 he was named the new morning host on sports radio station CJCL (Sportsnet 590 The Fan). Dean started his career in radio in 2001 and for nearly 20 years been entertaining the radio audience. Dean’s newest venture is the launch of his site and podcast which is gaining tremendous momentum across North America.

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