The Freedom Convoy has performed a great service to all life on the planet. What has the Battle of Ottawa taught us so far?
The respect and love that all participants in the Freedom Convoy have earned is now written into history. Their action rallied Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Without them, we might not have realized how numerous we are … and just how threatening we are to the government. The sights and sounds of Canadians cheering the truckers on along the long, cold trek to Ottawa lit the spark of freedom that the architects of the Great Reset were extinguishing in us. And we knew then that we were fighting as one against tyranny. (The Emergencies Act! Imagine. Here’s the Proclamation.)
So that was a huge awakening. The lines are drawn. They are much clearer today than they were a month ago. Thanks to the Freedom Convoy.
Whether calculated or one of those unanticipated twists of history, the Freedom Convoy scored a major victory in waving Canadian flags everywhere. The freedom fighters appropriated the Canadian flag in defence of the Constitution and in defiance of a rogue Parliament. The freedom movement is wonderfully broad-based. People from every experience of life came together to fight for freedom. Indigenous elders, new Canadians and old stock, French-speaking and English, races, religions, and so on. Trudeau’s tired identity politics was shown to be a political ploy. Always has been. And the symbol they tore out of his hands was the Canadian flag. On the world stage, it is being redefined as a freedom flag.
I noticed a video on YouTube by Curtis Stone criticizing the freedom fighters for waving the Canadian flag. (I can’t respond there because YouTube shadow-bans me.) It represents, he says, the nation-state and the repression that it has always stood for. But he’s wrong: it stands for whatever we say it stands for. We have taken the flag out of the hands of the state and made it our own. It’s a genius move by the freedom fighters. There is a battle underway for the meaning of symbols. We are redefining the Canadian state. People are awakening to the meaning of the Constitution.
The government, right from the start, called us insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. We wanted to overthrow the government, said Trudeau and the others bunkered in the Parliament buildings. What we wanted, I think, was a government that respects the Constitution. And that would entail a revolution all right.
This whole thing is boiling down to the security of the person, a concept you’ll find in Section Seven of the Charter. It’s not about horn honking or trucks violating parking by-laws. The idea that Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act because of kids playing in bouncy castles on Parliament Hill is a laugh. I will not give the state power over my body. I don’t have to. The Constitution protects me from Trudeau and the state.
That’s the bottom line. But the real issue here is that a rising proportion (a majority, I suspect) are now understanding just how badly the government has betrayed us. And they have been betrayed. What we need is transparency. And we’ll get it one way or another. I want a Royal Commission into COVID-19. It’s a longshot unless a great majority of Canadians press the Governor General to establish one.
In the meantime, the Freedom Convoy has shown us where we stand. We must continue to find every way possible to force the government to reveal itself. It won’t be pleasant for us. But it will be the price of freedom.
If every Canadian had simply given in and allowed themselves to be turned into a lab rat, then there would never have been a problem. The government would never have been forced into a position to reveal itself. And just look at them now. Because some of us say no, a definite, unqualified, constitutional NO, our Canadian state is looking pretty sorry. This is a war for the constitution. If Trudeau thinks that our support for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms makes us insurrectionists and domestic terrorists, then I thank him for revealing himself so clearly.
A few hours later:
Did you see Justin revoke the Emergencies Act? He threw that press conference together fast. What was the rush? First, the Senate was about to vote against it. That would have been a huge embarrassment for the government. He had to revoke it before they rejected it. I imagine that such a vote would have had legal complications for the government as well, given all the state violence that it unleashed. Also, it’s possible that word was coming back from police forces across the country, saying that they were going to refuse to enforce it. There’s no doubt that Justin wanted it in force forever. I think this is another sign of just how strong we are.