All sorts of things!
Freedom from...
- gainful employment;
- shared custody of one's children;
- ever being asked to make important decisions, and;
- respect of anyone who finds out you were part of this rolling block party of sh-t-heads in the first place.
Are these people rolling in cash or something? How do you just decide not to work and drive across the country?
Or are they on EI and cry about people who collected CERB?
Some of the more notable ones I'm aware of are living off disability benefits and then grift funds from rubes to pay for their travel expenses. Don't ask me how they're physically capable of driving across the country and going to all these protests but not physically capable of holding any kind of job.
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Well Ontario has arguably worse leadership than AB right now. No debate there. It’s just a pathetic thing to wave around as some sort or argument. Unless your argument is just that our government sucks and has no accountability. It’s certainly not an indictment on the efficacy of masks.
I think it would be fun if you was just honest about what the nation emergency was.
Everyone is asking if the convoys occupation of Ottawa was/wasn't a nation emergency. It doesn't matter, the Police refusing to do their job was the national emergency. If the enforcement arm of our laws openly refuses to take direction from the representative arm that absolutely is an emergency every time.
But I guess that openly throwing the police under the bus isn't going to make that problem better.
There is a concept in the social sciences that for a state to maintain power, they need to maintain a "Monopoly on violence" if others are able to organize and direct violent actions, or the state is unable to organize and direct violent actions, then they are prone to attack.
Jan 6th the Americans allowed others to organize a violent attack.
Freedumb Canadians were unable to organize violent suppression.
In both cases its the image of a weak government walking towards the edge of collapse. The emergency was to show the entire polity that the state had the ability to deliver consequences, because that was starting to become unclear.
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Staff in the Prime Minister's Office are suggesting the former Conservative interim leader, Candice Bergen, privately acknowledged concerns about engaging with self-styled Freedom Convoy protesters last winter while publicly urging the prime minister to listen to them — something Bergen denies.
A summary of interviews with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's senior aides was released by the public inquiry looking into the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14.
The document said Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, asked whether Bergen could help and the two leaders discussed reaching out to protesters in a Feb. 3 phone call.
"Ms. Telford added that during the call, Ms. Bergen acknowledged that there were significant concerns about whom the federal government could engage with and setting a bad precedent," the summary said.
The conversation happened on Bergen's first day on the job, when she publicly challenged Trudeau's government in the House of Commons for not offering an "olive branch" to the protesters.
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During question period she charged that the prime minister needed to come up with a plan to make protesters "feel they have been listened to." Instead, she told MPs, Trudeau was "threatening Canadians with more vaccine mandates."
For her part, Bergen said Thursday that she had a different recollection of that Feb. 3 call with Trudeau. She said the prime minister called to congratulate her on becoming leader, and that they discussed a number of things.
"I asked him if he would consider reaching out and extending an olive branch to the people who had come to Ottawa," Bergen wrote in an email. "He said he didn't want to set a precedent by speaking to protesters in that way."
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