Canadian Convulsions > Trudeau's Emergency Act Illegally Invoked Against Truckers - Federal Court

 

Federal Court finds Emergencies Act for

‘Freedom Convoy’ violated Charter

By Touria Izri, David Baxter & Alex Boutilier  Global News

Posted January 23, 2024 10:06 am

 Updated January 23, 2024 5:46 pm

The Federal Court has ruled the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act during the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that descended on Ottawa in 2022 violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In his ruling, Justice Richard G. Mosley said the move was “unreasonable” and outside the scope of the law. Mosley is a 21-year veteran of the Federal Court and is a respected voice on national security legal matters. He has weighed in on some of the most high-profile recent cases in Canadian intelligence, including a 2016 decision that found CSIS had been illegally storing Canadians’ communication data for more than a decade.

The case was brought forward by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), the Canadian Constitution Foundation, Canadian Frontline Nurses and a handful of individuals.

Mosley wrote, “I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.”

“I think it’s in the interest of this government and future governments and all Canadians that the threshold to invoke the Emergencies Act remains high and that it is truly, as Justice Mosley says, a legislation of last resort,” CCLA lawyer Ewa Krajewska told Global News.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says that Ottawa will appeal the ruling.

Why is it in the best interests of Canada to appeal this ruling? The appeal should be paid for by the Liberal Party.

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Use of Emergencies Act during Freedom Convoy protest violated Charter rights: Federal court

“We respect very much Canada’s independent judiciary, however we do not agree with this decision, and respectfully we will be appealing it,” Freeland said at the cabinet retreat in Montreal.

Freeland, flanked by Attorney General Arif Virani and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said that in the opinion of the government public, national and economic security was under threat during the protest, and said the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first time was a “hard decision.”

“We were convinced at the time – I was convinced at the time –  it was the right thing to do. It was the necessary thing to do. I remain and we remain convinced of that,” Freeland said.

Krajewska said it’s not unexpected the federal government is appealing the decision, but is surprised to see this intent announced so quickly.

“I hear the ministers that they sincerely felt that they were doing the right thing and invoking it, but they misapprehended the legal threshold that needed to exist in order for them to invoke it,” she said.

“They felt that they needed to react to the situation, and this was the best reaction. But it wasn’t.”

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Feds justified in using Emergencies Act during ‘Freedom Convoy’: final report

LeBlanc discussed how the situation expanded beyond Ottawa to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, a key trade route with the United States, and the Coutts border crossing in Alberta.

“It’s not banal when security services tell you that they found two pipe bombs and 36,000 rounds of ammunition and ended up laying criminal charges as serious as conspiracy to commit murder and assaulting peace officers. So the context is important,” LeBlanc said.

Four people were charged with conspiracy to commit murder that were associated with the border blockade in Coutts.

Much of the Coutts blockade was cleared prior to the February 14, 2022 declaration of a public order emergency, the first step in invoking the act.

The CCLA successfully argued that the existing laws of Canada were sufficient in dealing with the blockades and extraordinary powers granted by the Emergencies Act were not needed.

“Yes, what was happening in Coutts may have been concerning, but [Mosley] finds that the existing laws of Canada were sufficient to deal with what was happening in Coutts and elsewhere in the country, and that is what the government was not able to demonstrate,” Krajewska said.

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Singh says NDP only ‘reluctantly’ agreed to Emergencies Act after federal court ruling

During the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), Justice Paul Rouleau said that the decision to invoke the act met the “very high threshold” outlined in the legislation.

The Public Order Emergency Commission was required under the law, which states that any time the Emergencies Act is invoked there must be an inquiry to probe whether the use was warranted and that the work on that needs to begin within 60 days.

Krajewska pointed out that while Rouleau’s report found the government was justified, he pointed out people could reasonably disagree with his decision and it was not a legal analysis.

What does the court ruling reveal?

The ruling includes a secret February 2022 memo from the Privy Council Office (PCO), the central government department that supports the prime minister, recommending Trudeau invoke emergency powers.

The document, which was partially censored and marked “cabinet confidence” – some of the most sensitive information in the federal government – noted that PCO believed the “examples of evidence to date” support the conclusion that the Emergencies Act was required.

Although from the outset, PCO noted their conclusion could be challenged.

“While there is no current evidence of significant implications by extremist groups or international sponsors, PCO notes that the disturbance and public unrest is being felt across the country and beyond the Canadian borders, which may provide further momentum to the movement and lead to irremediable harms – including to social cohesion, national unity, and Canada’s international reputation,” the document read.

“In PCO’s view, this fits within the statutory parameters defining threats to the security of Canada, though this conclusion may be vulnerable to challenge.”

Nevertheless, Canada’s most senior bureaucrat at the time – Clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette – approved the memo recommending the Emergencies Act be invoked.

PCO’s recommendation noted that “while municipal and provincial authorities have taken decisive action in key affected areas,” the situation was “concerning, volatile and unpredictable.”

“In addition, PCO is of the view that this is a national emergency situation that is urgent, critical, temporary and seriously endangers the health and safety of Canadians that cannot be effectively dealt with uniquely by the provinces or territories,” the document reads.

Krajewska tells Global News that the document was first produced during POEC, and the CCLA had it submitted to the court during this case.

“I think it’s very important from a democracy and transparency perspective that the government produced this document during POEC and that it’s now been appended to this decision,” Krajewska said.

“It’s important for Canadians to understand how the decision was made and what information the government had before it when it was making this decision.”

The document is a remarkable window into the advice Trudeau was getting from the public service during the crisis. Cabinet documents are very rarely released, and even the censored version contained some revelations.

For instance, it shows PCO was in active talks with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) about how the military might assist in ending the protests should they be required.

“Nothing in the invocation implies a role for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in the response to this emergency. Planning does continue to explore whether, how and when military assets could be used to advise and assist with the management of the situation,” the document read.

“This could include CAF providing available resources and equipment support such as towing operations. CAF could also be deployed to support law enforcement in certain situations, in response to a request from a province/territory.”

Global News had obtained documents in August 2022 indicating the same, and reported that Canada’s defence chief receiving a legal memo that appeared to address questions around the role of the military in aiding law enforcement minutes after the invocation was announced.

Defence experts at the time said the Canadian military faced an “exceptional” and “unprecedented” challenge in determining what — if any — role it could play in clearing the demonstration.

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The PCO memo revealed on Tuesday also notes that while Premier Doug Ford was an enthusiastic supporter of Trudeau invoking emergency powers, other premiers were more skeptical.

“A large number of other premiers expressed concern about the need to act carefully to avoid enflaming the underlying sentiment they considered to lie behind the protest, which they linked to public health measures including vaccine mandates,” the document read.

“These premiers were not seeing the local manifestations of this movement yet in their jurisdiction.”

Quebec Premier François Legault “had a strong negative reaction to the proposal, saying that he would oppose the application of federal emergency legislation in Quebec,” where the memory of Trudeau’s father invoking the War Measures Act during the FLQ crisis is still alive.

Pierre Trudeau's overreaction in Quebec was greatly exaggerated by his pathetic son. At least in the Quebec crisis, there were kidnappings, murders, and bombs exploding. In Ottawa, there was nothing worse than a little noise and a big traffic jam. Justin's reaction was like that of a scared, little boy.

Canadian Convulsions > Inquiry into Trudeau's invoking Emergencies Act against Truckers - Have you ever heard so much BS?

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This report is from CBC which is Justin Trudeau's biggest fan. Despite criminal behaviour on a few occasions, embarrassing behaviour on a few other occasions, and very questionable decisions (like refusing to name the 11 MPs who were financed by China in the last elections), the CBC has never found any cause to criticize Trudeau. In fact, they very rarely even ask him real questions. I have a few questions which you will find in the report below.

Trudeau's national security adviser felt convoy protest posed

'a threat to democracy:' documents

This is CBC's headline and it is obvious that they are trying to justify Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act which his father, Pierre Trudeau, also used in 1970. "'How far will you go', Trudeau the senior was asked".  "Just watch me," he replied.

Catharine Tunney · 

CBC News · 

Posted: Nov 15, 2022 10:52 AM ET | 

Inquiry into use of Emergencies Act underway in Ottawa

The history-making Public Order Emergency Commission, which is reviewing the federal government's use of emergency powers last winter, is hearing testimony in Ottawa. The inquiry is expected to last six weeks.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security and intelligence adviser believed that the convey protesters posed a "threat to democracy," according to a document tabled at the Emergencies Act inquiry.

The comments offer a glimpse of the advice cabinet was receiving as it invoked the Emergencies Act for the very first time in the legislation's history to end the convoy protests that blocked two trade corridors and gridlocked downtown Ottawa last winter.

In an email presented at the Public Order Emergency Commission Tuesday, Jody Thomas, Trudeau's national security intelligence adviser, writes that she's looking for a threat assessment.

No-one has actually heard of Jody Thomas before today. What are her credentials?

The email was sent just before noon on Feb. 14 - the day the government announced it was invoking the Emergencies Act and around the time the prime minister was briefing premiers.

The timing here is critical, and so is the content of what Trudeau was briefing the premiers. CBC didn't ask those questions. Was Trudeau looking for advice, or had he already made up his mind and was looking for justification?

"The characters involved. The weapons. The motivation. Clearly this isn't just COVID and is a threat to democracy and rule of law," wrote Thomas, whose title is often shortened to 'NSIA'.

"Could I get an assessment please … It's a very short fuse."

Workers use heavy equipment to remove temporary fencing and supplies from the Parliament Hill area

in Ottawa, Feb. 23, 2022. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

A few minutes later, Thomas wrote an email to senior government officials warning that "this is about a national threat to national interest and institutions.

"By people who do not care about or understand democracy. Who are preparing to be violent. Who are motivated by anti-government sentiment."

These are astonishing assumptions Thomas made in 'a few minutes.' How did she know what level of democratic literacy the truckers and their supporters possessed? Is her assumption based on the fact that the caravan started in Alberta? Are all Albertans incapable of understanding government?

How did she know that they were preparing to be violent? In the weeks-long protest, there were hardly any incidents of violence. No one challenged the police at any time.

She may be correct that the motivation was largely anti-government, but, on the other hand, the truckers went to Ottawa to talk to the government, not to overthrow them. No one from the government ever actually talked to the truckers except the Ottawa Police who had worked out an agreement with the truckers. That agreement was replaced by the Emergencies Act. The Ottawa Police Chief, Peter Sloly, resigned the very next day.

The motivation was to change some of the remarkably stupid policies that the government had enacted. 

CSIS didn't feel convoy protests constituted a national security threat under the law: documents

Proposed meeting between federal representatives, protesters was unlikely to work, public servant says

The request for a threat assessment made its way to the RCMP's Adriana Poloz, executive director of intelligence and international policing.

Her assessment said that ideologically motivated violent extremism "adherents" had been linked to the convoy. She pointed to a Three Percenters flag spotted on a truck taking part in the Ottawa protest and said that Diagolon members also attended that protest.

The Three Percenters are members of a listed terrorist entity in Canada. While members of the Diagolon online community claim the organization is satirical, the RCMP's assessment said prominent members have "espoused increasingly violent rhetoric opposing vaccine mandates."

The report also noted that the majority of protesters had been peaceful.

I don't know anyone who has ever heard of The Three Percenters or Diagolon, and I have my ear pretty close to the ground on things like this. But one flag, seen once, on one truck, does not a rebellion make.

RCMP questioned on chain of command

Commission lawyer Gordon Cameron raised the emails Tuesday as part of his questions to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and Deputy Commissioner Michael Duheme.

"How does it happen that when the NSIA wants a security threat [analysis], it doesn't go through one of you, but goes directly to somebody in an intelligence directorate that frankly none of us had seen before we saw this email?" he asked.

For the significance of this, let me relate a story that preceeded the Iraq war. Looking for a reason to invade Iraq, Dick Cheney called a CIA agent who was writing a report on Iraq. Cheney told her to include Weapons of Mass Destruction in her report. Credit the agent - she told Cheney that it was illegal for him to call her directly and told him to call her boss.

The report, God bless her, did not include any mention of WMDs, however, Cheney had the report rerouted directly to himself where he modified the report to include WMDs which then justified Americas attack on Iraq. 150,000 civilians were killed in that war. 

This was the work of Deep State, and it kept weapons inventories moving for 8 years. 

It's a well-known philosophy in the government that 'It's a lot easier to get forgiveness than permission'. I confess I have used that myself in my Public Service career.

Duheme said that while it isn't ideal, sometimes people in government reach out for information directly if they have a relationship with the person providing it.

Another astonishing statement! It hints very loudly, that Thomas had some relationship with Poloz. Does that mean that she knew Poloz would say exactly what Thomas wanted her to say? Remember the timing here - it took only a few minutes for Thomas to make up her mind, which would suggest that Poloz responded almost instantly.

Cameron pointed out that the NSIA was advising government on whether to use extraordinary emergency powers 

"This was a very time-pressured situation. It might be understandable that corners were cut or direct contact was used," said Cameron.

"Were you alert to the fact this was a threat assessment going from your people to the Privy Council Office in connection with the invocation of the Emergencies Act?"

Duheme said he wasn't sure if he was briefed beforehand and said it's possible Poloz's response to Thomas relied on assessments the RCMP had written already.

Answers that lack a great deal of confidence.

Brendan Miller, a lawyer for some convoy organizers, asked Rob Stewart, the deputy minister of the federal Public Safety department during the protests, about the advice the federal cabinet was getting about the convoy at the time.

Miller showed Stewart a document that showed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) didn't believe the self-styled Freedom Convoy constituted a threat to national security, according to the definition in its enabling law.

CSIS didn't see convoy as a threat: docs

The document, a summary of an interview CSIS Director David Vigneault gave the commission, showed the intelligence agency had concerns about invoking the Emergencies Act.

"[Vigneault] felt an obligation to clearly convey the service's position that there did not exist a threat to the security of Canada as defined by the service's legal mandate," said the document.

Stewart said the government would have a broader interpretation of what constitutes a national security threat.

And yet, did the government's broader definition actually fall within CSIS's more narrow definition?

Jody Thomas, national security and intelligence advisor to the prime minister, arrives at the west block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

"The cabinet is making that decision and their interpretation of the law is what governs here," said Stewart.

"And their decision was, evidently, the threshold was met."

"You have the RCMP, you have CSIS, you have the entire intelligence apparatus in the federal government and none of them said that this threshold was met, did they?" Miller asked Stewart.

"They weren't asked," Stewart said.

OMG!  You can't be serious! The RCMP, CSIS, Ottawa Police, were not asked, but the advice of one obscure woman who appears to have talked very briefly to a friend as accepted carte blanche. That, in itself, should be enough to dump Trudeau.

The Public Order Emergency Commission is assessing whether the federal government met the legal threshold to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear Ottawa of protesters last winter.

Under the Emergencies Act, a public order emergency "arises from threats to the security of Canada that are so serious as to be a national emergency." 

The act refers to CSIS's definition of threats, including serious violence against persons or property, espionage, foreign interference or an intent to overthrow the government by violence.

Unlike the 1970 October 'crisis', there were no murders, no kidnappings, no bombs exploding and no government was ever in danger of being overthrown.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mike Duheme looks on as Commissioner Brenda Lucki responds to a question as they appear as witnesses at the Public Order Emergency Commission, Tuesday, November 15, 2022 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited issues with police enforcement when he announced his decision.

"It is now clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement's ability to effectively enforce the law," he told a news conference. 

Ottawa Police Chief Sloly said the situation was under control. 

Under the Emergencies Act, a national emergency is "an urgent, temporary and critical situation that seriously endangers the health and safety of Canadians that cannot be effectively dealt with by the provinces or territories."

"It must be a situation that cannot be effectively dealt with by any other law of Canada."

Lucki and Duheme said they quickly became worried that the Ottawa police did not have a plan to end the convoy protest that occupied the capital last winter.

The pair also sat for an interview with commission lawyers in September. A summary of that conversation was entered into evidence Tuesday. 

During that interview, Lucki said the RCMP became concerned during the week of Jan. 31 —  the week after the first weekend of protest — that the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) did not have an overall operational plan to end the occupation of Ottawa.

But they did have a plan to manage the occupation, a plan that was trashed by the Emergencies Act.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki details concerns with Ottawa Police Service resources during the convoy protests as she testifies at the Emergencies Act Inquiry.

Both Mounties said they needed to see a plan before committing more resources to Ottawa as similar anti-COVID-19 restrictions protests began to sprout in Western Canada and at the Windsor, Ont., border crossing. 

Duheme told the commission lawyers that he joined a call with Ottawa officers on Jan. 31, where OPS indicated it wanted to launch an aggressive enforcement operation from Feb. 3-6.

"Duheme said he felt that OPS lacked the resources to conduct these operations and had neither the resources nor the plans to sustain them over the long term," said the interview summary.

"Lucki became concerned that OPS lacked a plan to use the RCMP and OPP resources that were then assisting OPS."

Lucki and Duheme said they never saw an overall operational plan prepared by the Ottawa police.

"It was not clear to them whether OPS lacked such a plan or was unwilling to share it with the RCMP," said their interview summary.

Wouldn''t you think they should know the answer to that?

Lucki also said it would have been inappropriate for her to interfere in Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly's planning and intelligence assessment processes.

It has been my contention right from the time Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act that his response was like that of a frightened little boy. This happens when a control freak loses control.

Canadian Convulsions > Trudeau's Emergency Act against Truckers Unnecessary; Trudeau seems determined to destroy Economy

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I have always said that Trudeau's invoking of the Emergencies Act in response to the truckers' protest was an act of sheer terror. This story lends credence to that theory.

Protesters participating in the truck convoy protest against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions gather

on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 29, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld)

Agreement Was Reached for Convoy Protesters to Reposition

Vehicles Before Emergencies Act Was Invoked, Negotiator Says

By Andrew Chen 

The Epoch Times

August 18, 2022 

Dean French, who negotiated with leaders of the Freedom Convoy earlier this year, said the Liberal government didn’t give enough time for a peaceful resolution to transpire before invoking the Emergencies Act to have the protesters removed by force, even though an agreement for the convoy to leave was reached.

“This was a black mark on Canadian history. History will show this was a total overreaction … and the inquiry is going to show that as well,” French told CBC’s Vassy Kapelo in an interview on Aug. 17.

The public hearings part of the inquiry are set to take place next month to look into the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act, invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 14, to clear the demonstrations in downtown Ottawa that began late January and called for an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions.

French, the former chief of staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, said negotiations for a peaceful resolution were carried out under a “very tight timeline,” with him speaking to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on Feb. 10, and the convoy leaders, including Tamara Lich and convoy lawyer Keith Wilson, on Feb. 11.

But recently released documents show that the government had been discussing the possibility of invoking the act as early as Feb. 10.

The documents include minutes from a cabinet meeting held on Feb. 13 in which Trudeau told his cabinet that he and the Incident Response Group—a committee of ministers and senior officials—were weighing a response to the convoy protest, and had “explored measures to enhance the powers of law enforcement agents on the ground to enhance actions, relieve Canadians and distressed communities and address the disruptions to the economy.”

During the cabinet meeting, Trudeau’s national security and intelligence adviser, Jody Thomas, told cabinet members that “there was potential for a breakthrough” in negotiations with the protesters.

French, who was trying to broker a deal for the trucks to leave the residential area in downtown Ottawa, said he was “surprised” that the wording from the national security adviser to the cabinet “wasn’t a little bit more direct,” since Mayor Watson had reached an agreement with the protesters on Feb. 11.

“I think the words should have been ‘there is an agreement,’ because Tamara’s own words in her letter—it’s a one-page letter from the mayor and one-page letter from Tamara … her final quote was, ‘we will do our best to start on Monday,’ which they did,” he said.

“We were done the deal that night, essentially.”

“Why wouldn’t Trudeau’s cabinet have waited on the Sunday night [Feb. 13] to say: Mayor Jim Watson, a very credible, respected mayor, has an agreement. Let’s just wait two or three days to see if this peaceful resolution works. If it doesn’t, if it’s not real, then let’s put down the hammer,'” French said.

Agreement

According to a Feb. 12 letter to Watson obtained by CBC, Lich acknowledged that the protest was “disturbing others,” but said “that was never our intent.”

“The Freedom Convoy Board agrees with your request to reduce pressure on the residents and businesses in the City of Ottawa,” Lich wrote.

“We have made a plan to consolidate our protest efforts around Parliament Hill. We will be working hard over the next 24 hours to get buy in from the truckers. We hope to start repositioning our trucks on Monday.”

In a separate letter issued that day, Lich revealed that the Freedom Convoy board had agreed to reposition the trucks, and had begun to work with road captains on the details.

French noted that the protesters were eager to comply with the mayor’s request as they wanted “a peaceful resolution.”

“All they really want is to get out of the residences so Mayor Watson will then talk to them. Remember, not a single politician had even listened to them—and that’s a Canadian trait: to listen—that wasn’t happening. And Mayor Watson made it clear: If you don’t move out of the residences, I’m not speaking to you,” he said.

Watson’s office confirmed this week that the mayor never met with Lich, CBC reported.

When asked to respond to French’s remarks, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s office told CBC in a statement that “the government closely monitored the status of negotiations which were disavowed by many associated with the so-called Freedom convoy, and were ultimately unsuccessful.”

Trudeau moved to invoke the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, less than 24 hours after being informed of the likely breakthrough with the protesters. The act gave the police special powers to compel towing companies to remove the trucks and vehicles parked in the city’s downtown core, and the police cleared the protesters in escalated operations over the next few days.

The act also allowed financial institutions, without having to obtain a court order, to freeze the bank accounts of individuals and entities suspected of making financial contributions to the movement. It was later reported that some banks froze accounts beyond the list of names provided by the RCMP.

Canada just missed possibly one of the greatest opportunities in its history

Canada could have been using its LNG to save an embattled Europe ... 

and make billions in the process

Author of the article: Tristin Hopper

Publishing date: Aug 24, 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz at an event in Toronto on Tuesday. Scholz's attempts to secure Canadian LNG have mostly fallen on deaf ears in Ottawa. PHOTO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS/CHRIS YOUNG

It could well represent one of the biggest missed opportunities in Canadian history: An embattled Europe is clamouring for natural gas, and one of the world’s biggest producers of the stuff can’t sell it to them.

The economic hit is overwhelming: At current prices, even just one Canadian port exporting liquid natural gas could be adding nine figures to the Canadian GDP each day. Politically, Canada could be helping to deal a body blow to Russian hegemony over Western European energy. Instead, on both fronts, Ottawa appears content to watch from the sidelines.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is currently on a mad dash to secure alternate sources of gas before the onset of winter. In Toronto on Tuesday, Scholz said “Canada is our partner of choice” in transitioning away from Russian energy, adding “we hope that Canadian LNG will play a major role in this.”

The invitation was pooh pooh’ed almost immediately by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said there has “never been a strong business case” for moving Canadian LNG to Europe.

That was before Europe decided it can do without Russia's gas. Canada's debt has more than doubled under Trudeau who seems to think that it will take care of itself. 

Oddly, Trudeau doesn’t share the same sentiment when it comes to hydrogen. Despite hydrogen having a dramatically smaller and less-developed European market, one of the signature features of Scholz’s visit was when Trudeau took him to Stephenville, Newfoundland to visit the proposed site of a wind-to-hydrogen facility. The hydrogen project hasn’t obtained regulatory approval and it’s still not entirely clear whether it will go forward. 

There is much more on this article at The National Post.

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Canadian Convulsions > The most honest and intelligent commentary on Trudeau's madness - Evangeline Lilly

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Marvel star pushes for talks with Covid protesters

Trudeau responds to Evangeline Lilly by ending Emergency Act

FILE PHOTO. Evangeline Lilly. © Getty Images / Axelle/Bauer-Griffin

‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ star Evangeline Lilly has urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sit down with vaccine mandate protesters amid the ongoing trucker convoy demonstrations.

The actress posted a video in which she stated: “Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, I want to speak to you today about your current approach to, and current treatment of, our fellow Canadians who are protesting your federal vaccine mandates. They have asked to meet with you, prime minister: medical experts, top scientists, doctors, nurses, parents, grandparents; intelligent, loving, concerned citizens.”

“Why won’t you sit with them?” Lilly asked. “If you’re so convinced of your own reasons for the mandates, sit down and talk the leaders of a group of 2.3 million protesters across the country, who represent many millions more across the nation, and explain it to them and ask them to listen with open hearts and minds, and then reciprocate. Listen to what they have to say with a mind open to hearing things that might go against the ideas you are entrenched in.”

She continued by saying that the way to unify people is by finding solutions, not by vilifying those who “say there is a better way,” and that what the country needs right now is unification, which requires leadership to “see, recognize and hear from the people sitting out in the cold at your door.”

Lilly went on to accuse Trudeau of painting a false picture of the protests, saying that many Canadians who decided to see the “fury and destruction” that is supposedly going on in Ottawa, as described by the prime minister and corporate media, have been surprised to see “thousands of people singing, dancing, hugging, waiting patiently, speaking kindly, cleaning the streets, and generally sharing the true Canadian spirit.”

After noting that the Canadian leadership is treating these peaceful protesters as terrorists, Lilly asked that people from both sides of the mandate issue listen to each other and don’t let the press brainwash them into division and hatred.

She concluded by saying, “Listening is the only way out of the ideological mess the media has broiled us all into.”

Lilly, who had previously expressed her opposition to Canada’s vaccine mandates and drew the ire of the internet for her attendance of an anti-mandate protest, has found herself at the center of yet another wave of backlash following her recent video.

A lot of people seemingly wholeheartedly disagreed with Lilly’s calls for unity and communication, and took to Twitter to call on Marvel to drop the actress from upcoming film ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, which finished filming last fall and is now in post-production.  

Disney has not yet responded to the calls, and many suspect it would be way too costly for the company to recast the actress at this point. But some have also noted the fact that Lilly’s fellow MCU actress Letitia Wright has also been publicly voicing her opposition to vaccines, but has not yet been booted from her role in the Black Panther films.

The great misfortune of having far-left-leaning media in this country results in some disgusting and stupid vitriol poured out on Lilly on social media. Too many people believe what Canada's Trudeau-loving media has to say even when it makes no sense whatsoever. Trudeau is alarmingly immature, incompetent, and incapable of admitting his wrongs. 

Just moments ago, Trudeau announced the end of the Emergencies Act, as it was 'no longer an emergency'. Of course, it never was an emergency, the protest ended without the use of emergency measures and even before the Act came into power. 

It's almost funny that after weeks of refusing to listen to tens of thousands of Canadians, Justin changes his mind the day after Evangeline posted her courageous and sincere thoughts. Amazing!

By the way, Evangeline, the Conservatives need a new leader!!!

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