The trucking indusstry is against this…. The trucking union is against this…. So who supports this protest? This “January
Financed by Alberta Separatists…
It was Menzies who connected the dots between the fundraiser and the political interests of organizer Tamara Lich, who has what he described as “a history of association with radical groups, including the recently formed federal separatist Maverick Party in Alberta.”
“In her past, Lich was regional co-ordinator for Wexit in southeastern Alberta, and was member of the board for Wexit Alberta,” TruckNews.com reported. It said she later joined the board of Wexit Canada, which has been rebranded the Maverick Party.
He reported that Lich, whom he said has no direct connection to the trucking industry, also had past links to the so-called Yellow Vest movement, which has many documented connections to extremist groups.
Supported by Conservative Party MPs, who seem to be encouraging these duh-heads to disrupt Ottawa until they get their way. And a Conservative “leader” who dodges questions about it.
These sorts of blatant lies and deliberate attempts to mislead Canadians are a threat to our democracy. But what makes the CPC’s recent conduct even more dangerous is the obvious desire on the part of its key members, including former leader Scheer and potential leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre, to provoke a portion of the Canadian public that’s already inclined towards anti-social behaviour — and direct their fury towards the prime minister.
After all, the convoy of truckers headed to Ottawa right now sounds an awful lot like the one that made that same trip back in February 2019 to protest the Trudeau government’s treatment of the oil and gas sector.
As Canada’s National Observer reported at the time, that convoy was marbled with white nationalists, climate change deniers and anti-immigration activists, and its hostility towards the prime minister transcended normal political boundaries. And as Caroline Orr made clear in a recent piece, the threat of political violence coming from the far right in Canada has only gotten bigger. “The anti-vaccine movement has become a vector for radicalization,” she wrote, “and national security experts are concerned about what comes next.”
This group is full of MAGA-types who want this to be their “January 6” moment…. Of course, that seditionist uprising failed …. But hey…. Maybe truckers can bring about the change needed in this country that democracy cannot, am I right???
The protest blocked critical infrastructure in Alberta on the way through, but unlike indigenous groups and environmental activists, Kenney likes these guys so did nothing about it, despite passing the “Critical Infrastructure Act”. So, clearly, the act is only to be used politically, which will likely invalidate it in the courts when it is used that way (but I digress).
These are questions the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership should be made to answer. They’re all the more pertinent now that people like Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News’ Laura Ingraham are drawing attention to the convoy and fanning the same flames that nearly set their own Capitol alight just over a year ago. But the answer coming from Canada’s Conservatives, if we ever get one, will probably be that their ends justify these means. If it helps them win an election, or at the very least fend off the surge on their far-right flank from the People’s Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada seems content to keep pushing us down this dark road. The rest of the country has no choice but to wait and see where it takes us.
As CTV’s Glen McGregor reported, some people involved with the trucker convoy are openly rooting for that sort of attack on Parliament to happen. And as journalist Justin Ling noted on Twitter, Canada Unity, the organizing body for the convoy, “is essentially calling for the removal of the Canadian government.”
The Conservative Party is moving Canada down a path that the vast majority of Canadians will not go…. And I suspect they will pay a political price for this. But maybe they’ve seen that democracy isn’t getting them anywhere…. So let’s try sedition.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/01/27/opinion/anti-vaxxer-truck-convoy-signals-insidious-spread-trumpism-canadahttps://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/01/24/Truckers-Protesting-Vaccine-Mandates/