5 Filters

Nova Scotia threatens public with $100,000 fines if they support the truckers

#1

That’ll be that ‘tiny minority’ Trudeau was claiming…a touch of desperation?
ED

Nova Scotia gov’t bans citizens from gathering to support Freedom Convoy truckers headed to Ottawa

On Friday, the provincial government of Nova Scotia issued a ‘Highway Blockacde Ban’ warning citizens that they are not to gather in support of the convoy of trucks headed to the nation’s capital.
Sat Jan 29, 2022 - 1:50 pm EST

(LifeSiteNews) – The province of Nova Scotia has issued an edict making it illegal for citizens to gather along the highway and cheer on the truckers driving to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates.

On Friday, the provincial government of Nova Scotia issued a “Highway Blockade Ban” warning citizens that they are not to gather in support of the convoy of trucks headed to the nation’s capital. While the directive states that the purpose of the ban is because gathering in “those areas would put themselves and others at risk,” the convoys have made it across the entire nation with similar gatherings, without a report of a single incident.

Effective immediately, “all persons are prohibited from stopping parking or operating a vehicle or putting any item in such a manner as to create or contribute to a partial or complete blockade of the normal flow of vehicle traffic on a road, street or highway in the province,” reads the directive.

In addition to the broad rules, the edict names the “2022 Freedom Convoy” specifically, making it a crime punishable by up to 100,000 dollars to participate in, finance, aid, encourage, or support “an interruption of the normal flow of vehicle traffic” in relation to the convoy.

Famed Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson took to Twitter to denounce the unconstitutional measures against the right of Canadians to peacefully assemble.

“This has truly crossed a line: Nova Scotia bans gatherings along highway in support of trucker freedom convoy,” posted Peterson this morning.

What the hell are you thinking @TimHoustonNS? How dare you make it illegal for Canadians to express their political opinions? Your actions have crossed the line into outright political illegitimacy. Beware.

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 29, 2022

“What the hell are you thinking [Nova Scotia premier] @TimHoustonNS? How dare you make it illegal for Canadians to express their political opinions? Your actions have crossed the line into outright political illegitimacy. Beware.”

“I can’t believe they would do that,” Nova Scotia driver and convoy organizer Martin Brodmann told True North Centre News on Friday. “This whole journey has been such an enjoyment,” and the convoy was something “that had to be done.”

Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling the convoy now arriving in Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates and COVID coercion a “small fringe minority,” it is becoming increasingly clear that the movement has widespread support.

Videos and photos have been circulating on social media showing thousands of protestors gathered in Ottawa’s Parliament Hill to express their support for the convoy.

While the true number of protestors is currently unknown, organizers and supporters have estimated that as many as 50,000 trucks may be arriving in the capital this weekend, with videos from last night already showing a firework-laden sky as trucks formed a gridlock in Ottawa’s downtown core.

Simultaneously, Saskatchewan is beginning to backpedal

Saskatchewan premier flip-flops (again) on COVID passports, now wants to loosen restrictions

2 Likes
#2

Did you notice that the source of these stories is a religious website that is against wine’s right to chooses whether to go through with a pregnancy? Have a look at the petitions on the site.

Re NS forbidding vehicle based protesting at the border, it may be because there is one road only connecting NS with the rest of Canada. Maybe they didn’t want to take a chance on having the province cut off from vehicular traffic.

#3

This is the source, link is in the article:

1 Direction of the Minister under a Declared State of Emergency (Section 14 of the Emergency Management Act) (22-002)

“A failure to comply with this Direction could result in a summary conviction with fines
between $3,000 to $10,000 for individuals and between $20,000 to $100,000 for a
corporation per incident.”

The $100,000 fine is for companies, a mere $10K for ordinary bods. So the headline isn’t accurate.
It would be a bit dry to just post official documents, and no-one would want to read it!
But yes I’ve posted about this issue of left and right. If I see something useful it’s natural to look around the site. When it’s about the virus, I’ve stopped doing that as the left is on board with the governments, authoritarians and big pharma and any Great Resetters that might be sneakily watching and cackling. The middle is on board because it is politically challenged by almost anything, it tends just to ‘Repeat after me’…
For Covid-19 that leaves, sadly, the right. If you get in and out without reading that it’s a commie plot to turn the country over to immigrants you’re doing well!

Isn’t the real question why outlets that traditionally make more appeal are NOT publishing key health information, and attacking people wishing to make theor own choices?

You could argue any strike or protest causes inconvenience. A $10,000 fine for an ambulatory member of the public to wander down and wave a banner is draconian, surely illegal too.

1 Like
#4

I know that the article you posted about NS is at least largely true (I didn’t read it closely). You may be right that the gov’t’s edict is illegal. I don’t know what the province’s premier was thinking in enacting it but as I say, it would be very easy to completely cut NS off from land access. There is literally one road in and out (and one rail line across the same isthmus). Otherwise, it’s air or sea. There was an anti covid restriction protest there in the fall that did cut things off for an afternoon.

I get your point about priorities and sources. Although I’ve been against covid vaccine mandates from the start, fighting them is not a huge priority for me. I express my disagreement of them when the subject comes up but that’s it. I did accept the vacc even tho I’m not comfortable about it. People that I respect and trust are firmly entrenched on both sides and frankly, I don’t know what to think.

I am however very alarmed about the ever present threat to women’s right to choose. And I’m very concerned about how the right wing (sorry, I don’t know how else to refer to it) is making inroads into more and more of the population. My sister, who traveled with the convoy from the east for a day and a night, just sent us a link to a news conference with the Canadian protest organizers (some of them anyway). The ‘journalist’ running it is Keane Brexit who is with Rebel News in Canada. Rebel is an obnoxious, dishonest, reactionary outfit. They are constantly setting up situations where they get arrested or accosted and then using it for fundraising. They are constantly threatening to sue people who say anything against them. The head guy at Rebel is Ezra Levant who on social media blocks anyone who challenges him even a little bit, I think in order to maintain the echo chamber. They don’t want any ideas other than their own to be heard.

When the protest organizers spoke publicly yesterday, they hand picked the news organizations that could attend. Only Rebel type outlets were invited. None of the MSM outlets were permitted to be there.

#5

Thanks Jackie. I agree about the right wing threat to women’s reproductive rights and would not sidle closer to them on that issue just because I agree with them about the vaccines.
I think the thing about the vaccine that people don’t get is it’s a threat to life. It can kill you - therefore being forced to take it is a breach of the right to life. This is not offset by hopeful claims that it’s safer than not taking it - people have a right not to accept particular death risks. Even if covid were more dangerous and there were not umpteen antivirals that can treat it early, and the vaccine were less dangerous, people would still have the right to refuse it. Coercion is a breach of that right to life.

You make a lot of disparaging criticisms - doesn’t this illustrate the point that the commentary from the mainstream and the left distracts from the main issues at stake? Human rights also apply to obnoxious, dishonest, reactionary people. But thousands of truck drivers have a very sound reason for driving all that way to protest, that’s the main thing.

1 Like
#6

Which is the point of the protests. Government-caused lockdowns are for the CoMmOn gOoD though, so that’s ok.

Compare with laws forbidding strike actions of various kinds (the ones that actually create pressure, not the token marching and chanting on a Saturday tame whining).

There’s a bigger picture here methinks.

1 Like
#7

Exactly the strategy the globalist mafia uses to discredit all opposition. Plant a few pretend Nazis in every crowd to dishonour the whole lot. Nudge nudge nudge nudge.

Naturally we all have lines were don’t want to cross, but banding together in our weak little camps and ignoring the things that unite us is the sure path to quietism and defeat.

Reproductive rights are a Shibboleth used as cover for oppressive actions. Life begins at conception and destroying life is counter to many precepts. Expressing such an opinion is automatically deemed Far Right, so discussion is chilled.

So there you go: that’s me firmly labeled as Anti-Choice along with all the other Deplorable traits that make me human.

1 Like
Farmers join Freedom Convoy and break through police barricade!
#8

To me it goes to show that each issue has to be debated on its merits, not its associations. The latter, of course, being subjective and open to manipulation.

Wondering where this is all going…here’s Trudeau today, in YCNMIU mode:

Justin Trudeau

“Inclusive” not to include people who object to being injected with experimental gene products, that is. They are to be maligned, harassed, penalized, and pushed out of society, possibly denied healthcare.

Trudeau’s breathtakingly hypocritical words see to show that we are to be controlled by a network of insincere electric fences - touch one and you’re down a few levels, if not out completely. These fences are set by management. The latest one is ‘misinformation’ which as I think we have seen, can be based on telling the truth about a lie. The allegation is enough.

Funnily enough I saw this video clip yesterday (H/T Margo), where Klaus Schwab explains how the WEF own half the politicans in many countries - Trudeau, Macron, Adern.
Link: The Lifeboat News: 'Great Reset' for Dummies

But I hadn’t seen that picture of Hancock and Schwab at the WEF. There are many more politicians to add to the list.

2 Likes
#9

You believe that life begins at conception. That’s fine and I respect your view. Do you want to deny the right of abortion to women? That I do not support.

2 Likes
#10

I would not extrapolate from my personal opinions to suggest anybody else whatsoever should behave a particular way. Its none of my business. Virtue duly signalled

2 Likes
#11

Did Turdeau tweet out any photos of his so so funny blackface fancy dress appearances?

I like the electric fence metaphor.

1 Like
#12

None of these fines and mandates are legal, and none of them would stand up in a proper court of law.

What’s striking is the total desperation of authorities worldwide to make people take the jabs.

In turn, this can only make one wonder what the jabs are all about.

Here’s the head of Pfizer recently stating that the jabs are practically useless…

1 Like
#13

“…and we know that the two doses offer very limited protection, if any…”

It’s great clip of all the media headlines of 90%+, 100% efficacy etc, to happy music - turning to the discordant crashing sounds of the reality.

“None of these fines and mandates are legal, and none of them would stand up in a proper court of law.”

I agree, 90%+ or even 100% :slightly_smiling_face:. Governments really wanted to badger private companies into making it mandatory, but then they take over the responsibility.

#14

Life began - on this planet - some billions of years ago, so we reckon currently, and has been a seamless continuum ever since. ‘Individual’ life - a very Enlightenment concept - doesn’t really ‘begin’ anywhere after that first long-ago conception: chicken/egg?

And - yer know - was there literally no life at all anywhere in all the - allegedly - fifteen-billion-year-old ‘universe’ until it suddenly ignited spontaneously on Earth? Panspermia is tosh?

My intuition, fwiw, is that ‘individual’ life - if that concept means anything at all in a wholly mutually-interdependent ecosphere - comes with the - built-in - understanding that it can terminate at any time for the animating soul running it; any time after the moment of fusion of the gametes. That’s the deal: When the latest time comes for your immortal soul to finish its latest interlude in the bardo state, and plunge into the incarnation merrygoround - ‘The Wheel of Rebirth’ - yet again, a settled part of the deal is that this particular life can end at any time, both before as well as after parturition, and - as with the old druidic culture of the ancient Celts - we shouldn’t fuss too much about when exactly the stop comes, since each soul will be coming back for another go pretty soon, whatever happens.

Plenty of old souls might well think: “Oh no! Not another handicapped-body life to run! Been there, done that, squeezed all the benefit I can from it, in service of Big Mind’s great purpose, so I’m off from this incarnation, before it even gets born! And besides, whether or not I’m destined to run another handicapped life, my current mother doesn’t want this pregnancy. Her free-will choice; I defer.”

And that is each soul’s prerogative, since free will is a non-negotiable, literally-inherent part of the whole incarnation deal; free will for the newly-pregnant female too, as well as for the newly-conceived morula…

Once we get clear of the crabby-old-male-human diktat that ‘God hates abortion!!!’ and face the ecological and spiritual realities of our existence, none of the above is a big deal. Always, always painful for a woman - or other female animal - to have to abort a pregnancy, it seems. But really - no big deal for the endlessly-evolving merrygoround…

PS: Strayed away from Nova Scotia a bit, haven’t we…? :slight_smile: (Emoji function’s buggering about - AGAIN!)

#15

Thank you for your longtime and steadfast support on this issue, Rhisiart.

My idea of the soul matches yours but I’ve never really applied it to abortion (which as you say is always really painful for the mother - whether spontaneous or induced).

1 Like
#16

Most welcome, J, my dear!

1 Like
#17

I get your point.

Back to Ottawa, the continuing protest is coming at a high cost to the people who live downtown. Not sure if you’ll be able to access this link. This guy is a mainstream journalist but that doesn’t take away from what he is reporting.

1 Like
#18

I should have said that I get the point you made here. Still learning how to use this board.

#19

From where I am (in France) Twitter now seems to be censoring posts about the protest in Canada. Here’s some of the latest…

The following brief video was, apparently, posted yesterday evening…

#20

It’s completely one-sided. Not one supporter quoted; discussions with media pressing politicians on why they aren’t going in to get rid of the protestors. I could find any reference to the protestors’ grievance in this guy’s coverage, no criticism of the mandate. You wouldn’t know that thousands of people are going to be sacked or assaulted.