Livestream starts ~38 mins, with notes the commish won't take questions. Then he does a native land acknowledgement: https://www.youtube.com/live/6kQ02RTlfII?feature=share&t=2261
https://twitter.com/ThevoiceAlexa/status/1626640937316192269
Commissioner Rouleau ruled that Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act was JUSTIFIED.
https://twitter.com/ThevoiceAlexa/status/1626641796183781376
In the report, they kept saying that nobody had been seriously injured by law enforcement officers.
I was shot and people were trampled with horses...
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1626640197562601476
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Every police chief that testified before the Emergencies Act commission said the same thing: there was no need for martial law to handle the truckers. That’s the test in the law: a) a national emergency that b) can’t be handled by existing laws. This ruling is an inside job.
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Of course the political establishment will cheer — one of their own has vindicated them. But this is devastating to already-weak public support for our legal, political and police systems. To the public, this is proof that the elites care about each other — not about the law.
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Never before have our institutions been so distrusted or disrespected by the people. The pandemic broke our faith in experts; the lockdowns broke our faith in authority; the propaganda broke our faith in the media; and now judges are of no use against a rogue establishment.
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When I was in law school, the Charter of Rights was treated as something on par with the Bible itself. This ruling (and every other lockdown ruling) has shown the Charter means nothing, not even to judges, if the government is punishing the “right” enemies. A disgrace.
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Canada really is a country whose cabinet ministers muse about deploying tanks to crush women and children. It’s a place where bank presidents are all too happy to obey the regime and seize bank accounts of entire families if someone in that family embarrassed Trudeau.
https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1626633835487035397
Commissioner Paul Rouleau writes that he reached this conclusion "with reluctance." He further says that some of the federal government's emergency measures were not appropriate.
Rouleau finds that the asset freezing provisions in the emergency orders were appropriate and effective, though he thought there should have been a mechanism to have your accounts unfrozen after complying with the emergency orders.
Rouleau concedes it's unjust if someone had their account frozen because their spouse was involved in the convoy but shrugs because there's no way around it.
For some reason, Commissioner Rouleau decided to run interference for Justin Trudeau's "small fringe minority" comments, suggesting that he wasn't talking about the Convoy as a whole.
https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1626643589362069504
Rouleau admits that the legacy media amplified "misinformation and disinformation" about the Freedom Convoy.
Rouleau found no meaningful connection between the arrests in Coutts and what was happening in Ottawa, which directly contradicts Marco Mendicino's claims in justifying the use of the Emergencies Act.
Rouleau wrote that he wasn't bothered by prohibition on travel to downtown Ottawa generally but would have been if it extended to members of the media. Erm, Ottawa Police threatened journalists with arrest.
You mean a bunch of commie shitbags are doing commie things?
Who could have known.
Canada is a shithole. The US, as bad as it is, is one of the last places that isn't completely cucked.
You say that, meanwhile J6ers rot in jail indefinitely without formal charges.
Apologies, not trying to be a dick. I'm Canadian and I'm furious about this outcome even though I expected it.
I said completely cucked. There's a lot of fucked up shit here too. Unfortunately, not enough people are willing to do something to fix it.
Also, I knew you were Canadian when you apologized. Pattern recognition.
Did you miss the part where it says the government can circumvent the Charter whenever they feel like it, so long as they say they're doing so?
Our Charter was always worthless.
Constitutions everywhere are worthless. The good thing about your Charter is that it at least forces the government to be honest about things, and it prevents judicial activism of the worst kind.
Constitutions are documents that outline a country, that's important. If governments fail to uphold the Constitution, it's up to citizens to overthrow them.
We will never be in that position because our Charter allows the government to do anything they want.
Don't confuse people circumventing what should be a legally binding document with the TP we have up here.
Has it ever happened that 'citizens' (no such thing either, unfortunately) actually overthrew a government for violating their constitution? Not that I know of.
In practice, there's two kinds of system.
One where Constitutions are not legally binding. This means governments can do whatever the hell they want.
One where Constitutions are legally binding. This means activist judges can do whatever the hell they want.
Canada actually has a good system, where it is legally binding, but governments can override it. This means they have to admit when they violate the Charter, at least as interpreted by judges.
I've honestly not figured out which is worse.
Section 15(2) also makes the Charter worthless by its own admission.
Ahh, extremists in the government admitting they're wrong, but gonna keep doing it anyway because they can.
I'm impressed that these people can sleep at night, knowing what they did to good people who just want less government involvement in their lives and slightly more freedom than the tyranny they were exposed to.
But hey, we can't have that. Those people were pure concentrated evil to demand the things that were granted to them in the charter of rights and freedoms. So obviously they must be destroyed and smeared for all time.
Otherwise I might be wrong. And honestly, that's never going to happen, being a perfect individual and all.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have freedoms to destroy. And with a straight face I'll tell you it's for your own good.
That's literally how the original Charter was written by Trudeau senior.
We like to laugh at the Americans, but at least their Constitution means something.
It starts with the announcement Trudeau's lackey won't take any questions from the media.
This makes sense as Paul Rouleau is the Goebbels to Trudeau's Hitler.
https://twitter.com/rpoconnor/status/1626649550705332243
https://twitter.com/rpoconnor/status/1626651345489956875
https://twitter.com/alanfryermedia/status/1626651716954513408
https://twitter.com/AriGoldkind/status/1626641431749173249
Interesting take from Ari Goldkind.
He's a right-leaning Toronto lawyer who historically was openly disdainful of the truckers
"The government investigated the government and found that the government did nothing wrong"
No way! I can't believe this is happening!
Seriously though, how many atrocities do states have to commit while justifying it in the moment and condemning it well after the fact with virtually nobody facing any repercussions and no meaningful changes be made before people will realise that the government can get away with just about anything and they know it?
There is no boiling of the frog anymore. The frog is boiled. Complacency is everywhere all because people aren't ready to risk the comforts they have become so accustomed to. We forgot what it's like to live for ourselves and not through the directives of another entity.
Could have just left it at that.
In related news, Grima Wormtounge fully supports Saruman’s scouring of the Shire.
Fuck Canada. I’m not Canadian, I’m Albertan.
Handpicked commissioner picks what the hand feeds him. News at 11.
It's best to know what's up than to live in a Disney-like fantasy. The elites don't care about you, and they never will. You won't be deceived by them if they know what they are.
At the time this happened, some Canadian friends on the subreddit insisted that there would be an investigation and that the government was screwed for doing this. Knowing that Western ruling classes never face any accountability, I expected rather little from it, but I hoped for the best.
At this point we should consider establishing and securing supply lines into the country in preparation for civil war.
We should also consider escape plans if all else fails.
Don't worry friends, the Emergencies Act will be amended so that they can do this again in the future.
There's no need for silly things like "laws" to protect the citizens. We need to ensure that such things don't act as barriers between us and the theoretical potential infinite power we could possess (but seriously honestly no way we pinky swear promise not to use).
Sit back friends, have another poutine. There's nothing to see here rubber stamp.
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1626677490931609600
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1626678772333449216
Canada is broken.
And water is wet.
Burn it to the fucking ground.
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1626680135306063872
Canadians don't call him the Crime Minister for nothing.