Let me describe what just went down in Canada. A national catastrophe. If you disagree with my take, I'm happy to provide sources.
We have a vaccine mandate disproportionately harming racial minorities, it's still in place. Why do Black Canadians not get vaccinated? Tuskegee? I don't know. Why do the indigenous? Maybe because the Canadian government has a history of experimenting on them? Ultimately doesn't matter as part of the discussion. We look to our 2 greatest allies, USA and UK. They had no mandates or at least had a roadmap to the end. We didn't have a roadmap and we just unemployed those people? There's legitimate cause for protest.
This article can be my proof that the protest in Ottawa was diverse: https://thepostmillennial.com/jagmeet-singh-faces-backlash-a...
The problem was that the Canadian media labelled the convoy as a bunch of nazis. there was literally only 1 nazi flag and there also just happened to have professional photographers following him? Was he even party of the convoy/protest? That was enough though, the hate convoy was fabricated. There's virtually no nazis and certainly no confederates in Canada. That's not our thing. Hell, the total protest size is estimated well above 100,000 people. Even if Canada has nazis, we don't have that many.
Not once did Trudeau go talk to the protest. He refused because they were all a bunch of nazis with unacceptable views. The ottawa police couldn't do anything against their right to protest and it was big enough that Trudeau couldn't keep ignoring. People demanded action against these nazis before they overthrow the government. Trudeau deployed martial law and arrested the lawful protest. Those illegal nazis looking to overthrow the government!
Trudeau in parliament even got to calling a Jewish MP a nazi for standing with swastikas. He even refused to apologize and doubled down later(a jewish liberal MP called her a nazi as well) Crushing dissent in Canada got denunciation by tons of good left-wing celebrities. Worse yet, the judge who is presiding over the court cases of these protesters is a liberal party candidate back in 2011. Clear conflict of interest.
Right before the Ukraine invasion, Trudeau absolutely abruptly stopped all the name calling over night. He then spoke that there's a great need to start talking to your friends and family who have differing political views. Typical anti echo chamber stuff. This is the day he got briefed about Putin's invasion I am sure. He went from declaring martial law to revoking it in an instant. Baffling everyone.
There's literally a Liberal senator who asserted "Honk Honk" actually stands for Heil Hitler. Absolute crazy person. Meanwhile Jordan peterson was having a heart attack online because he justly saw the tyranny of the government for what it was. The government did crush dissent. We do have political prisoners. This is a current catastrophe that hasn't been fixed at all. Attention went to Ukraine for good reason, but we have a nightmare still in Canada.
This abrupt 180 on the national emergency, Trudeau baffled everyone. People said 'oh the polls are in', Nope. Polls are in, they havent budged. senate was going to vote against(they werent). the various global celebrities calling Trudeau out on his actions. Nope.
Our PM just quietly admitted to it during the Ukraine sanctions speech, in his speech he said, and I paraphrase and taken out of context and ruined in every way, "for the past few weeks putin has been controlling the media"
Putin has controlled the media for decades in Russia. This was an admission of Canadian media. The past few weeks have been the convoy. In fact, international media were fantastic. NYTimes put their political ideology aside and called Trudeau out. Round of applause for the NYtimes. In fact, the international media were generally pretty fair, many didnt agree with the point of the protest, but agreed the protest should continue. They went to the protest because the Canadian media labelled this protest as 100,000 strong nazis looking to overthrow the government. International media saw a fantastic story because Canadians are generally good people, but when they got boots on the ground... that's obviously not what they found.
Putin made it clear: He was invading to denazify Ukraine. Ironically the amazing president of ukraine is jewish. But we heard this just recently didn't we... Who else just called a Jewish person a Nazi? No, Trudeau simply got disinformed to an extreme degree by Russian propaganda. His echo chamber told him everyone was a nazi.
All this BS about nazis, systemic racism and all that crap is Putin. The journalists who have been pushing all this nazi crap are russian agents. In fact, this entire protest was covered by rt.com about 100x more than the CBC covered it. Fox news was like 50x more than the CBC. Other entities covered it about the same. I would bet good money that the RCMP and CSIS are investigating those journalists today.
The world is about to pass laws to ban disinformation because it was clearly weaponized by Russia. However, we have an ongoing injustice here in Canada. I expect monday when parliament resumes Trudeau will offer that apology to Melissa Lantsman. I hope he elaborates on this more.