Monday, 14 February 2022

CCF concern of trudeaus grab for power

Saturday, 12 February 2022

Information from the New Blue Party of Ontario

Continued mandatory masking in our schools, for children as young as three years old.

Another declared "state of emergency."

More authoritarian emergency powers for the Ford PC Ontario government - greater than the powers they have already given themselves over the last two years.

Freezing and seizing voluntary donations from Canadians, intended to help those impacted by job losses induced by policies of the Trudeau and Ford governments.

Does any of that sound like Ontario is on track to getting "back to normal".

No, of course not.

But that's what Doug Ford and the PC Party want Ontarians to believe.

Establishment PC politicians and PC operatives will say anything in private to save their corrupt PC Party - including lying and deceiving.

But what they do, always seems to be the exact opposite of what they say.

Yesterday, Doug Ford said in a telephone conversation that he was going to end Ontario's provincial COVID-19 vaccine passport scheme - the one that his Ontario PC government introduced after failing to convince Justin Trudeau to introduce such a scheme nationally.

But Ford wouldn't say when.

And Ford didn't make a public announcement.

Why not?

And Ford wouldn't commit to banning the use of COVID-19 vaccine passports in Ontario. This means that COVID-19 vaccine passports (or other such proof requirements) could still be used in the public and private sectors.

And while Ford was saying all this in a phone conversation with a "supporter," in public, the Ford PCs were doing the exact opposite - implementing further heavy handed and authoritarian lockdown moves that are abnormal.

Yesterday, the Ford PC government announced that mandatory masking, in places like our schools, will be around for the foreseeable future, even after any other "mandates" are eased or lifted.

Second, the PC government leaked information to the corporate media stating Ford will announce another "state of emergency" and introduce new emergency powers for the Ontario PC government which include stiffer fines and penalties for those criticizing or protesting the government.

Third, the Ford PC government went to court to get a judge to give them an order to freeze the voluntary donations raised from Canadians (over $8 million) intended for truckers protesting or impacted by the Trudeau-Ford mandates.

None of that is getting "back to normal" as Ford said on the phone.

And none of that is anything to celebrate about.

But that is what the deceptive PC Party politicians, like Doug Ford, and their PC Party operatives, want Ontarians to believe.

Of course, you and I have seen this all before.

That is why we have created and are building the New Blue Party of Ontario and are getting ready to run candidates in the next Ontario election.

To stand up for principle.

To stand up for Ontarians and let them know how they are being deceived by the very same PC politicians and PC operatives that pretend to support them.

We will campaign on policies that the Ontario PC Party will never implement - like banning the use of COVID-19 vaccine passports or proof requirements, a position that we have taken since the scheme was first introduced by the Doug Ford PCs.

And for the sake of Ontario's future and the future of our children, we will not stop, because we know that as soon as we do, the Ontario PC Party's lies and deception will go unchallenged.

To keep our momentum going, please consider a contribution.

Click here to chip in!

The best is yet to come.

Jim Karahalios
Leader

Friday, 4 February 2022

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pt. 2, continuation of previous post.

Part of Ottawa residents’ legitimate frustration with ongoing protests is that neither city officials nor anyone else in charge appears to have the faintest idea on how to handle a large-scale protest in what is after all a G7 national capital. Anyone who has lived in or visited for any length of time a major world capital, as I have in several countries, knows that noisy, large-scale protests are par for the course. They’re often drawn out and in some cases violent. The farmers’ protests in India impacted normal life in New Delhi for more than a year.

The protest in Ottawa is less than a week old, and according to Ottawa police, has been entirely peaceful, with no incidents of violence to date. Having said that, if the protesters intend to remain here for the long haul, city officials are going to have to figure out some modus vivendi, to allow the protesters to exercise their democratic and constitutional right to protest peacefully, while respecting the rights of Ottawa residents to get on with their lives with a minimum of disruption.

Unfortunately, the politicians in power, federal, provincial and municipal, have not only staked out an extreme position — dismissing the protesters as a fringe minority and offering no possibility of compromise, even to the extent of meeting with them — they’ve also put all of their faith in vaccines, when many other countries recognize recovery from infection, use of therapeutics, and in some cases frequent testing as viable alternatives. There is also the very real issue of waning vaccine efficacy and vaccine fatigue, as evidenced by the slowing uptake of boosters in Ontario, and therefore whether today’s vaccine mandate will turn into a never-ending carousel of mandated boosters. Data shows Ontario booster uptake already plateauing around 50 per cent, well below the 80 per cent or so who are fully vaccinated, which is clear evidence of vaccine fatigue. There is potential room for compromise if the government walks back from its rigid position that it’s vaccination or nothing and recognizes the alternatives for those who are unwilling to be vaccinated.

What’s more, the Trudeau government is increasingly looking like an outlier in enforcing strict vaccine mandates where federal power will allow, such as civil servants, airlines and truckers, whereas by contrast most European countries move to loosen restrictions and work towards the end game where the pandemic disappears and becomes endemic like the annual winter flu. It’s noteworthy that those few countries attempting to impose mandatory vaccinations either on some or all of their populations are facing considerable pushback.

Germany, whose new chancellor wants to impose a mandatory vaccine mandate, is facing resistance not just from the “fringe” but from his coalition partner, the Free Democrats, a mainstream conservative party, whose leadership has expressed extreme skepticism about the impingement on civil liberty that the vaccine mandate represents.

The world is watching and will make up its mind whether high-minded Canadian sentiments to engage with those one disagrees with apply only elsewhere but not at home, unless the cause happens to be one you support yourself. Recall that Trudeau made a cameo appearance at the Black Lives Matter protests and very publicly took the knee. While he certainly can’t be faulted for not especially liking protesters who express their dislike of him in fairly blunt language, as the prime minister of all Canadians, and not just the 32.6 per cent who voted for the Liberal party, it would have shown statesmanship and magnanimity had he agreed to at least meet them and listen to their demands. Dialogue that Trudeau championed for the protests in India could actually work in Canada, too.

National Post

Pt. 1, of post --- pt. 2 follows this

Rupa Subramanya: Trudeau tells other world leaders to 'dialogue' with protesters. But he won't

Rupa Subramanya 1 day ago

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OTTAWA — Speaking 14 months ago about the farmer protests against agricultural reform laws that had brought parts of India, including the nation’s capital, to a standstill, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on the occasion of the founder of the Sikh religion’s birthday on Nov. 30, 2020, told a virtual gathering of Sikh Canadians that he stood with the protesters. He said: “I would be remiss if I didn’t start by recognizing the news coming from India about the protest by farmers. The situation is concerning … Let me remind you, Canada will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protesters. We believe in the process of dialogue … This is a moment for all of us to pull together.”

Fast forward to the present. In facing the trucker convoy that has brought the centre of Ottawa largely to a standstill, this is what Trudeau had to say on Jan. 31: “… over the past few days, Canadians have been shocked — and, frankly, disgusted — by the behaviour displayed by some people protesting in our nation’s capital.” He added that he would not meet the protesters and criticized then Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole for doing so.

What is striking is that Trudeau’s tactic in demonizing a large and diverse group of protesters and tarring them all with the same brush takes a leaf from the playbook of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose government and its powerful ecosystem claimed, without much substantive evidence, that the entire farmers’ protest was tied into the Khalistan movement here in Canada. The whole group of farmers were portrayed as little better than terrorists seeking to destabilize the Indian state.

Meanwhile, back in present day Canada, some prominent city officials in Ottawa went further than Trudeau. City councillor and former journalist Carol Anne Meehan tweeted: “Wish we could identify protesters to find out if any receive gov’t aid. If they can afford to stay in Ottawa and hurt our residents I would cut them off. Enough! Go home now.” Another city councillor with possible mayoral ambitions, Mathieu Fleury, tweeted in a similar vein: “This morning, I have asked the city manager and city solicitor to immediately launch court proceedings targeting the millions of dollars in funds frozen by @GoFundMe so Ottawa taxpayers are not left holding the bag for these protests.”

The two politicians subsequently deleted their tweets, without explanation or apology, after considerable social media pushback. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has also criticized the protests in rather strong language and urged the protesters to leave. In a similar vein, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the protesters needed to “move on,” and expressed his distaste with the demonstrations.

It’s ironic that elected Canadian officials are sounding like authoritarian tin pot dictators when this country’s leaders have routinely lectured governments in the developing world that they must engage rather than crack down on democratic and peaceful protests, much as Trudeau did in the case of India’s farmer protests.