[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

It seems to me that you don't have any grip on reality at all if you think that's what the trucker convoy was about. Unless by ‘Canadian democracy’ you mean a system where the vote is virtually meaningless, weak minority governments act as if they had a massive popular mandate and ignore all opposition, Parliament is routinely bypassed in favour of orders in council, important policies are decided by fiat without public consultation, and people don't even have the right to protest against the policies that are pushed on them. If that is indeed what you mean by ‘Canadian democracy’, we would be far better off to supplant it with a government that could actually be held accountable for its actions.

I know you didn't intend it, but this is certainly one of the more humorous things I've read on this board.

They were literal insurrectionists, Jay. Canada Unity's MOU is freely available across the internet.

https://www.netnewsledger.com/2022/0...understanding/

Whether we or the government took it seriously doesn't matter, because they did. Well, at least until someone likely showed them, in pictures and sound effects, how what they were proposing was treasonous.

But God forbid that anyone who doesn't agree with your politics should be allowed to play hockey.

I never said Stastny shouldn't be allowed to play hockey. I simply prefer he not do so with the team for which I cheer.

I don't care who agrees with me or not. What I care about at this moment is that a couple of doctrinaire left-wing yahoos have turned a hockey forum into a place to demand the unpersoning of everyone who disagrees with them.

None of that happened here.

As opposed to Yamer, who whines because a man whose politics he dislikes is allowed to play NHL hockey?

Was I whining? I felt like I expressed my opinion on the topic coherently and with the substance I deemed necessary to the discussion. Or is it only whining when it differs from your opinion and you want to be dismissive?

I watch hockey to get away from this crap. Leave your copy of Pravda outside or go somewhere else.

If that were true you would just ignore it and move on, but here we are.

I'm not going to stop you if you want to dramatically trapeze around to justify an insurrectionist movement with unapologetic ties to western separatism and open bigotry. By all means, fill your boots.

They have a right to protest and demonstrate, and we have the right to say what they are doing and how they are doing it is not only un-Canadian, but supremely idiotic. And anyone that is willing to financially back that kind of movement can feel free to revel in derision.