One of the best live-streamers of the Ottawa freedom movement had a unique exchange in his last stream. At two hours and two minutes in (after our hero had been pushed and kicked and pepper-sprayed by the cops in Ottawa and was back on the street), he captured a scene of several turban-wearing freedom fighters talking to the police. They were wonderful – not the police, but the defenders of freedom who happened to wear turbans.
It was amazing because a cop spoke back. The cops never talk back to their victims, at least not since the Emergencies Act was invoked, but never passed in the House of Commons and Senate. He was an officer and he actually engaged in conversation. That is so rare – maybe unique – that it is worth considering. What’s in his mind? Why is he doing this? Why is he following the diktats of a rogue, tyrannical government with an unhinged, probably sociopathic, prime minister?
I’m writing this to offer a response to people who are confused by this disingenuous argument. My turban-wearing compatriots were unsure how to respond. The cop said that the Liberals and Prime Minister Trudeau had won the autumn election and therefore had the democratic right to govern. The protesters tried to counter with arguments about the shortcomings of the Canadian electoral system – first-past-the-post, etc. That was all true, but irrelevant. I beg the police officer and the protesters to understand that no Canadian elector has the power to authorize, with his or her vote, a politician to violate the constitution. Trudeau, and all of Parliament and Governor General Simon have been violating the constitution for two years. It’s not about politics, it’s about the fundamental nature of the country, protected by the constitution. In fact, Trudeau and all members of Parliament swore an oath to protect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when they took office. So did the governor general. They are all traitors.
Please stop allowing people to argue that this is a political issue.
See you downtown Toronto tomorrow and every day thereafter. My sign reads “Canada Is Adrift in UnCHARTERed Waters.” Ask me why.
I love the Ottawa protesters, but, as I suggested in my last post, we have to spread the love everywhere in Canada. Every town, every city.