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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

CANADA HEATS UP, FREEZES ACCOUNTS

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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CANADA HEATS UP, FREEZES ACCOUNTS

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0:00.0

Canada, this is, you know, third week ongoing. We have this trucker's rally. Things are happening as, you know, by the moment.

0:07.0

So at the beginning of this week, Prime Minister Turdot, he invoked the Emergency Powers Act.

0:14.0

This is a very rare situation in Canada has not been done recently.

0:18.0

Here's the headline Canada's Turdot invokes emergency powers to quell trucker COVID protests. These are broad federal powers,

0:25.0

really, to restore order. And immediately there was already pushback. So we have the Civil Liberties Association in Canada.

0:33.0

There's headline here warns normalizing emergency legislation threatens democracy. They took to their Twitter account and said this, quote,

0:41.0

the federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergency's Act. This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason.

0:49.0

The Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met. And they went on basically to say the government's regularly deal with difficult situations.

0:59.0

And by using these powers so freely, it's going to really, it's really going to have an issue with uncivil liberties for people.

1:07.0

And just recently the Canada's Association, the Civil Liberties Association announced that they're going to have a press conference at 4 p.m. Eastern today to announce a planned litigation of what they call significant public interest.

1:22.0

So it looks like they may be planning some legal action here against the Turdot government.

1:26.0

Turdot literally right now, all he has to do is just say, I'm not going to mandate the vaccine for truckers. It's sit all alone in their trucks driving across the country in the cold.

1:37.0

A vaccine that does not stop Omicron. He himself just got sick in the middle of this and had to quarantine himself.

1:44.0

So there's absolutely no purpose to this vaccine. But instead of just letting go of this failed vaccine, he is going to bring in martial law, override democracy. Act like there is a war at hand and take away people's civil liberties and rights in order to get his way.

2:00.0

I mean, absolutely atrocious. It's horrifying.

2:05.0

Throughout the entire process, we've watched him divide the country with with really device of rhetoric. I mean, we weren't going to go into it here, but it's been it's been pretty interesting to watch and it's turned a lot of people against him and really awoken the rest of the world.

2:18.0

Now, even Biden administration, they appeared to have goaded him into this into this movement to for these emergency powers act. And this is the headline right before Turdot announced his emergency powers act.

2:29.0

Biden urges Turdot to use federal powers to end bridge blockade. Remember, Turdot essentially did nothing for weeks until this emergency powers act was enabled. So even Biden getting in there, but it seems like.

2:42.0

Our own the beacon of light and hope for freedom and liberty just said to Canada, go ahead and take away the people's rights is bringing federal power. That's the best way to handle this. What's the Constitution? What are civil liberties? Forget it. Throw that out. Tudot just just just do what we would do. I mean, is that is that what we're to understand? This is what the United States of America would do.

3:02.0

I mean, that was that was a suggestion given from the Biden administration is to use these federal powers and that was the one they chose that's what Turdot shows. So, you know, it appears that that was what was being pushed behind closed doors.

3:14.0

And a lot of premieres, a lot of territories in Canada also immediately reacted to this. So here's the headline on that one caution must be taken against overreach premieres, reacted to those call for emergencies act.

3:26.0

And it says federal opposition parties say prime minister Justin Trudeau's decision to invoke the emergency act is a proof of failure in dealing with convoy blockades across the country to those proposal was also quickly dismissed by their premieres of Quebec, the scatch one Alberta, Manitoba.

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