The Evil and the Madness of the Woke State

I will rely on my Canadian readers to provide a view from the inside of the last day or two of developments in our Great Northern Neighbor. 

From this side of the Niagara Falls, however, those developments seem shocking, though not completely unexpected. We were told repeatedly that the truckers were just a bunch of fringe nuts, a minority really, and now, suddenly, they are the greatest threat to Canada's existence since, well, since ever. They must be crushed! The Man-Boy minority PM has lived up to his family heritage of preferring dictatorship to democracy. By "family heritage," I mean both that of his putative cigar-smoking Cuban father, and that of his legally recognized Barbara Streisand-dating Canadian father. Little Justin is no friend of freedom and like his woke brethren throughout the West prefers the strong-arm of the state to holding of free and fair debate and discussion. The PM has invoked the thus-far never used 1988 Emergencies Powers Act. The BBC provides a pretty good summary HERE of what the Act provides. You can read that, with all the legal-mumbo-jumbo caveats the BBC inserts, but keep in mind that, in practice, to wit, in the real world, the Act seems a bit vague; as far as I am concerned it is just shy of martial law. Hell, it is martial law but cloaked in civilian garb. Most troubling is the power granted to intervene banking transactions. In today's world, you don't need the army to destroy domestic opponents: compliant tech and media companies and financial institutions can do that for you.  Canadians will have to explain how the powers of the Emergencies Act clash or don't with the powers held by the Provinces and Territories. Can, for example, Alberta defy a Federal edict under the Act?

This is a remarkable development in the democratic world; certainly in the Anglosphere. It clearly sets a further precedent, one most notably started by vaccine and mask mandates and lock-downs, for the government to assume tremendous powers over the exercise of freedom. I am sure the Wokemasters in the White House, who egged the Boy PM on, now watch with great interest and envy.  I ask our Aussie and Kiwi readers to tell us whether their nations' governments are set to follow in the Canadian path, all in the name of "battling" a not-very-deadly virus.

Man-Boy PM is right about one thing: the truckers are a threat to him and to the Woke tyrannical state he so ably represents and protects. Future generations will have to build a monument to the embattled Canadian trucker who parked at the Ambassador Bridge and sounded the honk heard round the world, and place a plaque reading something like this:

By the steel bridge that arched Winter's flood, 

Here once the embattled Canadian trucker parked,

and sounded the horn blast heard round the world . . .