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Trump Rebukes Trudeau Over Forceful Removal,
Slandering of Convoy Protesters
By The Canadian Press
February 27, 2022
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is assailing Canada as a country of “left-wing fascists” for the way it cleared protesters out of Ottawa last weekend.
Trump’s remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida marked the first time in nearly a month he’s publicly acknowledged the protests.
He said protesters in Canada were “slandered” as Nazis, racists and terrorists, charged with what he called “phony crimes” and accused of being loyal to foreign powers.
The comments prompted a passionate standing ovation from the crowd.
Trump says police crossed a line when they began removing protesters after nearly a month of their occupation of streets in downtown Ottawa, both on and nearby Parliament Hill.
He says he stands with the truckers who staged the protest and with Canadians who he says are fighting to reclaim their freedom.
“The tyranny we have witnessed in Canada in recent weeks should shock and dismay people all over the world,” he said to hoots and hollers from a sympathetic crowd in Orlando.
“In an advanced Western democracy, that peaceful movement of patriotic truckers, workers and families protesting for their most basic rights and liberties has been violently put down.”
Trump likened Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to President Joe Biden, whom he vowed to ensure would be dispatched to “political exile,” along with Democratic allies like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“They have been slandered as Nazis, racists and terrorists – these are the names they’ve been called,” Trump said.
“I watched them; I saw those Maple Leafs all over, the flags and the love for their country. Plenty of Americans were there, too, and they love our country. They’re being hunted down like enemies of their own government and treated worse than drug dealers and murderers or rapists.”
Authorities in Canada crossed a line when they began making arrests, towing vehicles and forcing the protesters out of the national capital’s downtown core, he continued.
“You’re either with the peaceful truckers, or you are with the left-wing fascists – that’s what’s been happening,” he said.
“We stand with the truckers and we stand with the Canadian people in their noble quest to reclaim their freedom.”
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Canada leaves itself defenceless as it contributes to the prolonging of the war in Ukraine.
Canada says aiding Ukraine has ‘exhausted’ its stock of weapons
It has sent thousands of rocket launchers, grenades, and kit
to assist the country in its conflict with Russia
Canadian aid for Ukraine being loaded on a plane at Toronto's Pearson Airport. © AP / Chris Young
Canada has depleted its own stock of weapons in its bid to support Ukraine amid Russia’s military operation in the country, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand has acknowledged.
“There are capacity issues we need to make sure we are on top of for the purposes of ensuring the Canadian Armed Forces are well resourced,” she added.
Ottawa had been among Western capitals that have provided Kiev with so-called “lethal aid.” It has so far sent or is in the process of sending 4,500 rocket launchers, 7,500 hand grenades, 100 anti-tank launchers with 2,000 rounds, two C-130J tactical aircraft, and various other pieces of kit from Canada.
Russia sent its troops into Ukraine in late February, following a seven-year standoff over Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the breakaway Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.
Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc.
Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
Eventually, Ukraine will agree to recognize Donetsk and Lugansk as per the Minsk agreement, and will renounce joining NATO. The sooner that happens, the sooner Putin will remove his troops from most of Ukraine. The longer it takes, the more likely Putin is liable to claim another chunk of Ukraine, and, the more people will die or be forced to flee their homes.
Countries that support Ukraine are prolonging the war that Ukraine cannot win, costing lives and untold catastrophes in European and world economics.
Canada has left itself militarily defenceless and has had the utter stupidity to announce that to the world. It's so embarrassing being a Canadian in Trudeau's Canada.
Many members of Trudeau's incompetent cabinet should be fired ASAP
The Liberal government is a dumpster fire that can't fix the airports,
can't issue passports and can't seem to get anything right lately
Author of the article: Brian Lilley
Publishing date: Jun 18, 2022 • 1 day ago • 6 minute read
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a press conference with members of his new cabinet in Ottawa, Oct. 26, 2021. PHOTO BY LARS HAGBERG /AFP via Getty Images
If you were to hold a contest for Justin Trudeau’s most incompetent cabinet minister, there would be lots of competition.
Problems at airports, at passport offices, a massive immigration backlog, not to mention a Canadian diplomat partying it up at the Russian embassy.
I’ve been writing about the problems various ministers and their departments have been dealing with over the last several weeks but I’m not alone in noticing the wheels coming off the bus. Tom Mulcair wrote a recent column detailing the problems facing Trudeau’s government.
“Canadians, including many Liberals, have been witnessing and lamenting months of abject failure in the most basic administrative and decision-making processes in government,” Mulcair wrote. “It’s a whole-of-government approach to incompetence.”
Mulcair knows how government should work. Before being the leader of the opposition in Ottawa, Mulcair was a cabinet minister in Quebec. And before that had been a civil servant.
Clearly, in his eyes, this government isn’t up to the job.
Paul Tellier is another old hand at government who has been critical of the way the Trudeau crowd operates. Tellier was a senior civil servant in several departments when Pierre Trudeau was prime minister and eventually was named Clerk of the Privy Council under Brian Mulroney. He’s also had a stellar private sector career and doesn’t think much of Trudeau’s management style.
“The current government, with centralization of everything in the PMO, is in the process of destroying the public service … and the word ‘destroying’ is not too strong,” Tellier told Policy Options recently.
The centralization of power in the prime minister’s office isn’t something Justin Trudeau brought to Ottawa, it’s been going on for decades. But he’s made it worse instead of better. Which is part of the reason why he and his office wear so many or the mistakes his cabinet makes.
Barring an election or his own resignation, we can’t get rid of Trudeau, but we can hope for a summer cabinet shuffle to get rid of the incompetent ministers.
Here’s a short list on who should be fired from their current posts and why.
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Marco Mendicino – Public Safety
Right now, Mendicino is under fire for lying to Parliament over the invocation of the Emergencies Act, but he’s also the man responsible for part of the border problem, the customs agents.
The Conservatives are calling for Mendicino to resign or be fired for repeatedly saying that police asked for the Emergencies Act to be invoked and that’s why the government acted. We know that’s not true because the police have said so. When ministers lie to Parliament, they’re supposed to resign. So far that hasn’t happened.
As for his part in the mess at airports, specifically Pearson in Toronto, there have been months of delays. Backlogged customs counters have contributed to flight delays and passengers sitting on the tarmac for hours. When departments aren’t working properly, it is the minister’s responsibility to fix it and he has failed to do so.
Mendicino has a great resume and credentials, but he can’t perform, so it’s time to go.
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Omar Alghabra – Transport
While Mendicino is responsible for the delays in people arriving at Pearson, Alghabra is the minister responsible for why you have trouble taking off on time. The delays due to security screening and a lack of agents have been growing for months.
Any close watcher of politics knew Alghabra was in trouble when he blamed rusty travelers for being slow at getting their laptops out of their bags and into the bins. Blaming the public for your mistakes is always a bad idea in politics and the mess with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority is Alghabra’s responsibility.
He’s announced new hires but it’s too late and not enough. Air travel spikes by 20% in July and August and the 850 extra screeners aren’t enough to cover the coming increase in volume and cover staff absences due to the vacation schedule.
Alghabra might be a smooth political operative for Trudeau but he isn’t handling this important file, shuffle him out.
regarding Canada’s support for vaccination efforts in developing countries, humanitarian and conflict situations.
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Karina Gould – Passport Canada
Like the issues with border agents and security screeners at airports, the problems at the passport office aren’t new. They’ve been festering for months. Lines have been growing, Canadians have been complaining, but the minister only recently recognized this.
Like her cabinet colleagues, Karina Gould wants you to know it’s not her fault, it’s yours. You didn’t apply for your passport soon enough and now there’s a surge. Sure, the surge they’re complaining about is lower than the normal number of passports they would process in the same amount of time prior to the pandemic but it’s your fault.
Sean Fraser – Immigration
We have a two-million person backlog when it comes to immigration applications in this country, even for people we desperately need to fill jobs. Want to come to Canada under the federal skilled trades program, it’s a 43-month processing time. The start-up visa program to get entrepreneurs to invest in a start-up business is 31 months.
These are people with high demand skills that we need, and we are pushing them away to other countries.
The immigration system is broken, so is this minister.
Melanie Joly – Foreign Affairs
After screwing up the Canada 150 celebrations with a Canada Day party that didn’t work and building a skating rink on Parliament Hill that cost $8.1 million to operate, I didn’t think Melanie Joly would ever be in cabinet again.
She was a disaster in the Heritage portfolio, overseeing the opening of a Holocaust memorial in Ottawa that failed to mention Jews or that six million of them perished at the hands of the Nazis.
Now she’s running one of the most important portfolios, foreign affairs — or Global Affairs Canada in Trudeau parlance. Just over a week ago, a senior diplomat in her department attended a party to celebrate Russia at the Russian embassy. If you haven’t heard, we’ve called what Russia is doing in Ukraine genocide and we are imposing harsh sanctions to isolate the regime, but we are also going to their parties to show we are good sports.
Joly’s political staff knew about this ahead of time and didn’t stop it, but they deny the minister knew. Her department first defended the diplomat attending the party and then apologized under media pressure.
Joly is obviously a lightweight, not suitable for the role she’s in. Even though Trudeau obviously has a soft spot for her, she needs to go.
For sure, you can't get rid of the only attractive minister in the government.
There could be a longer list
The list of people who could or should be shuffled out of cabinet could be longer.
Justice Minister David Lametti comes to mind. He just pushed a bill through Parliament to drop sentencing requirements for repeat offenders on serious gun crimes. He’s effectively lowering sentences for them. He also isn’t standing up to Quebec’s Bill 21 or Bill 96, two flagrant violations of the Charter he is supposed to defend.
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez should be turfed for not only pushing through Bill C-11, the internet censorship bill, but having MPs vote on secret amendments to the bill. The problem is, he was was doing what his boss, the PM, wanted him to do.
In an ideal world it would include Trudeau himself. In a normal minority government, this level of incompetence spread over so many ministries would be enough to vote a government down.
Thanks to Jagmeet Singh and the NDP though, he’s going to be in office until 2025 or until he decides to pull the plug.
The incompetence in this government is brought to you by Justin Trudeau but all of it is made possible by Singh’s unwavering support.
Add the Minister of Defence to that list as documented in the story immediately above.
As I have mentioned in years past, Trudeau picks his cabinets by their sex, their sexual persuasion, their colour, their faith (as long as it's not Christian), and their heritage. It makes for a colourful Cabinet, but certainly an incompetent one.
