Canada hijacked by the far left

[Gaon]

Democracy is dead in Canada.

Gaon, do you have regrets about immigrating here?

Yes, we both do. I am earning terrific money right now. But, I do not know how Canada can continue like this. A tiny minority of unelected Natives with the help of international leftists is blocking the democratic will of the people. And the prime minister is allowing illegal blockades to continue. It would never be tolerated in Israel or Russia.



The established ideology which is not allowed to be challenged is climate lunacy. I cannot see a future for a country so determined to undermine it's own economy as well as democracy.

[Anonymous]

Democracy is dead in Canada.

Gaon, do you have regrets about immigrating here?

Yes, we both do. I am earning terrific money right now. But, I do not know how Canada can continue like this. A tiny minority of unelected Natives with the help of international leftists is blocking the democratic will of the people. And the prime minister is allowing illegal blockades to continue. It would never be tolerated in Israel or Russia.



The established ideology which is not allowed to be challenged is climate lunacy. I cannot see a future for a country so determined to undermine it's own economy as well as democracy.

I admit it is not looking good right now. But, I have faith common sense will prevail.

[Anonymous]

By Brian Lilley of Sun News Media



Expect more shut-downs

Trudeau has shown activists how to get what they want



While the deadline was midnight to clear the tracks, OPP officers wisely waited until the sun was up before moving in.



It was just around 8:30 on Monday morning that officers decided to clear the tracks on the CN Rail line, near Belleville.



For three weeks, Mohawk protesters had been blocking the tracks, saying that they wouldn't let passengers or freight trains through until the RCMP fully left the Wet'suwet'en territory some 4,600 km away in British Columbia.



The Mohawks had put out a statement in the middle of the night saying they were negotiating and wanted to keep talking, but those on the front line had a different attitude.



Asked by reporters if they planned to leave the tracks, the people camped out laughed and said no. Then the cops went in. In total, 10 people were arrested 19 days after the blockade went up. A court order was issued more than two weeks ago, police only enforcing it now when they felt all other options had failed.



On the one hand, I'm angry that the police waited so long, on the other hand, it is tough to blame them.



This is a political problem, mostly a federal one, that our prime minister has taken far too long to address. The police knew that if they went in too early, tried to make arrests and anything went wrong, the politicians — federal or provincial — wouldn't have their backs.



It was only short days ago that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government were painting anyone that wanted to bring the barricades down as racist and violent. The Liberal allies in the media echoed that sentiment when they pilloried Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer using those Liberal talking points last week.



Then on Friday, realizing that the rail shut-down was having a significant economic impact on the country, and that his attempts at dialogue were going nowhere, Trudeau adopted the same stance as Scheer.



After weeks of effectively allowing the blockades to go unchecked, Trudeau called the situation "unacceptable and untenable."



"The fact remains the barricades must now come down and the injunctions must be obeyed and the law must be upheld," Trudeau said. That was Friday. On Sunday, Trudeau held calls with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Quebec Premier Francois Legault and British Columbia Premier John Horgan. The Ford government, in particular, had been asking for a co-ordinated effort to deal with the blockades, worried that if they acted to take them down, Trudeau might attack the province rather than back them.



In fact, it's easy to see that Trudeau could have easily treated Ford the same way he did Scheer if the province moved on the blockades last week. Instead, Trudeau effectively gave his blessing for this to come to an end.



Officially, governments say that they don't direct police, but the reality is that they give signals and by Sunday night, the signal was given to the OPP that the blockade on the CN Rail line should come to an end.



It's sad that it took this long, it's sad that we live in a world where lawlessness is rewarded.



In not acting sooner, it elevated those who would break the law for their political gain, our political leaders, but Trudeau in particular, have given future activist groups a blueprint on how to get what they want.



Shut the infrastructure down, threaten the economy and partner with a group the government is afraid to move against.



Sadly, we will see more of this in Canada.

[Anonymous]

Justine will turn Canada into the next Venezuela.

[Anonymous]

Protesters who blockade rail lines or highways in Alberta could face up to $25,000 in fines under a bill tabled by the UCP government Tuesday.



Blocking railways is already against federal criminal law, but Bill 1, the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, introduced in the legislature after the throne speech, would give police and prosecutors the power to hand out more provincial penalties.

[Anonymous]

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president, Tim McMillan had this to say about the Trudeau



"I don't think (Teck) is a cautionary tale, I think it's part of a long string of cancelled projects," he said. "We've seen Northern Gateway cancelled after it had been approved; we saw Energy East cancelled before it got ( approval). This creates a very challenging environment for global investors to look at Canada and say, ' How would we invest in a country or a project after we see these sorts of failures?' "



McMillan noted the energy sector isn't the only sector under attack, as opponents have also protested forestry and agricultural projects. He believes those efforts are co-ordinated. 'Changed their names'



"The tar sand campaign is something that's still on the website of several of those organizations that explicitly target Canada, the energy sector in particular," he said. "Forestry has gone through it and it's the same groups. Some of them have changed their names."

[Anonymous]

Give those greenie frauds hell Chief Ross.

[Anonymous]

Give those greenie frauds hell Chief Ross.

[Anonymous]

Some good news, CN is recalling workers laid off due to the illegal blockades.

[Anonymous]

Can't block the polls

Pipeline protesters losing public support



By Brian Lilley of Sun News Media



The protesters who've been attempting to shut down Canada for the past few weeks have captivated media attention and have a lot of politicians nervous, but they're losing public support.



Whatever one thinks of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, most Canadians don't want to see rail lines blocked, ports shut down or roads closed by those protesting against them.



That's the result from not one but several polls on this issue over the past several days.



In fact, one poll from Ipsos showed support for the pipeline has gone up, even as Canadians acknowledge that the federal government needs to do more to deal with real-life concerns in First Nations communities.



Over the past several days some of the country's most reputable polling firms have all taken the pulse of the country on how the protests are impacting the country and what Canadians think.



Angus Reid found that 70% of the people they polled thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was doing a bad job of handling the situation.



Considering the split on what people think of the issues at play, that tells me he hasn't won over either side on this issue.



DART found that 69% agreed with the statement that "Canada is broken."



A consistent theme among all the polls, including the latest from Campaign Research, is that people want the blockades gone.



The rail blockade near Belleville, which shut down freight and passenger service for much of the population for three weeks, is the biggest but far from the only example.



Campaign Research asked this basic question, "Does the need to block a pipeline from being built justify blocking rail lines, ferry ports and busy intersections?"



The answer was 70% saying no, 18% saying yes and the remainder saying they don't know.



A full 50% said they agreed with the statement that



"it is never acceptable to stop other people from working or travelling as a method of protest."



That compares to 23% who said blocking busy transportation corridors is unreasonable and just 19% who said it's justified.



And yet we've had weak political leadership, at all levels, and police afraid to act without the backing of their political masters, treating the protesters as if they were the mainstream. They are not. Canadians aren't cold or unfeeling people, we understand that there are real issues to be dealt with in First Nations communities across the country.



From poverty to boil water advisories, legitimate land claim disputes and more — the issues are well known.



Yet that is for the federal government to fix.



Stopping average Canadians from getting the propane they need to heat their homes, the chlorine their town needs to clean their water or even stopping them from getting to work won't win over supporters from fixing real issues.



It hasn't helped that Canadians know that all 20 First Nations communities along the route of the pipeline support the project, as do most hereditary chiefs because they see it as beneficial to their people.



Protesters from outside those communities who are against all fossil fuels have latched onto a small group of hereditary chiefs and say we should stop the project because they oppose it.



Would those of us outside of First Nations communities accept that something most of us wanted needed to be stopped because Prince Charles and his sons didn't like it?



No, we'd tell them to get packing.



If the Wet'suwet'en don't like what their elected leaders have done, then they can contact them or vote them out at the next election.



Trying to say that First Nations communities don't deserve the same democratic rights as the rest of us is not only wrong, it's racist.



The majority of Canadians want the blockades to end and the underlying problems to be fixed.



That will require action from the only man who can put the federal government into motion on this, Justin Trudeau.

[Anonymous]

By Mark Towhey of Sun News Media



Cost of poor leadership

It's time Canada's First Nations got their act together



In Wet'suwet'en, as in many indigenous communities, it is unclear who — if anyone — leads.



Is it the democratically elected band councils? Or, the hereditary chiefs? Or, both? If so, how are disagreements between them resolved? Only the Wet'suwet'en can decide.



And, they must decide. If band councils had authority to negotiate on behalf of their people, where are they now? Why are they not speaking out against those robbing them of their legitimacy? If the councils were not authorized to negotiate, why did the people stand silent as it happened?



Time and again, across Canada, governments, companies, and others have tried to negotiate in good faith with failed First Nations. Just when one group claiming to speak for the people agrees, another pops up to disagree. This cannot continue.



Indigenous Canadians, like all of us, have the right — and a responsibility to their children — to demand more from their leaders. And, to hold them accountable.



Indian Act and hereditary chiefs be damned.



Canada's First Nations must decide who speaks for them. Then let no others pretend to do so.

[Anonymous]

Domestic terrorism on our rail lines goes unpunished



By Candace Malcolm of Sun News Media



In 2013, two terrorists were arrested over an al- Qaida-linked plot to derail a passenger train providing daily service between New York City and Toronto.



The two men, one a Palestinian refugee, the other a PhD student from Tunisia, were charged and eventually convicted on a bevy of terrorism charges including planning to derail a passenger train. They were given a life sentence for their crimes.



Canada has never exactly been tough on terrorists; we earned the unsavoury reputation as a safe haven for Islamist terrorists in the decades prior to 9/ 11 due to the fact there were no laws on the books against fundraising and providing material support to terrorist groups abroad. But when it came to the disruption and potential derailment of a train in our country, Canada threw the book at these two hooligans attempting to attack our critical infrastructure.



There is no messing around. As my colleague Joe Warmington pointed out in a recent article, "the Criminal Code of Canada makes it clear."



Under Section 248, it states that interfering with transportation facilities with the intent to endanger safety and is likely to cause death or bodily harm is an indictable offence and liable to life imprisonment. "Life in prison! You read it right," wrote Warmington.



Not only is this law on the books, it's one that has been used in recent memory when two jihadist terrorists conspired to attack a train in Canada. That is why it was all the more shocking to see a video this week of a group of men near Belleville, Ont., throwing large wooden pallets at a CN train.



The video makes it clear. The men are actively trying to stop, or perhaps even derail, a moving freight train.



Not only were they brazen enough to get within feet of a moving locomotive carrying potentially hazardous material, throwing wooden skids drenched with gasoline and setting fires, they were also stupid enough to film it all — making it easier for police to arrest and charge these reckless activists.



These men should be described as domestic terrorists. Their behaviour is no better — and in some ways worse



— than the al-Qaida terrorists currently sitting behind bars in a maximum security prison. While the al-Qaida terrorists were driven by an evil ideology that brought down the World Trade Center towers in 2001 and has caused endless death and misery throughout the Middle East and beyond, these individuals willing to engage in domestic terrorism are consumed by their own twisted ideology.



Their destructive world view gives them the self-appointed authority to hold Canada hostage and stop a pipeline from being built on the other side of the country, all to serve their own narrow interests.



They ignorantly believe that they are not subject to Canadian law and have commanded a veto power over tens of thousands of good-paying jobs for blue-collar Canadians.



Perhaps worst of all, they are dishonestly claiming to speak for all indigenous people. This, despite the fact that resource development projects create hope and economic opportunity for Northern communities and have broad support among elected band leaders in Western Canada.



The al-Qaida terrorists targeted a passenger train and their goal was to murder as many Canadians and Americans as possible, making their crime far more heinous.



But their attack was only in the planning stages, and there was no imminent threat to public safety, according to the RCMP at the time.



Whereas, the people who physically attacked a train on Wednesday actually carried out their plot.



And while the target wasn't a train full of people, they nonetheless endangered the lives of the train conductor, nearby communities and fellow blockade activists, had the train actually derailed.



This is terrorism, plain and simple. It's time to throw the book at those willing to endanger lives by attacking a train.

[Anonymous]

Regulatory and legal issues in Canada have already led to the cancellation of $100 billion worth of resource projects, according to the C.D. Howe Institute. The cancellation of the Teck Resource's $20-billion oilsands project is just the latest example. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is investing $110 billion to develop a natural gas field and Russia is moving forward with $150 billion investments touted as the "biggest project in the modern-day global oil industry."

[Thiel]

Regulatory and legal issues in Canada have already led to the cancellation of $100 billion worth of resource projects, according to the C.D. Howe Institute. The cancellation of the Teck Resource's $20-billion oilsands project is just the latest example. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is investing $110 billion to develop a natural gas field and Russia is moving forward with $150 billion investments touted as the "biggest project in the modern-day global oil industry."

Blocking Canada's oil and gas industry is having no effect on stopping fossil fuels or slowing climate change. We say no, other countries with lower environmental standards than us say yes.

[Anonymous]

Regulatory and legal issues in Canada have already led to the cancellation of $100 billion worth of resource projects, according to the C.D. Howe Institute. The cancellation of the Teck Resource's $20-billion oilsands project is just the latest example. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is investing $110 billion to develop a natural gas field and Russia is moving forward with $150 billion investments touted as the "biggest project in the modern-day global oil industry."

Blocking Canada's oil and gas industry is having no effect on stopping fossil fuels or slowing climate change. We say no, other countries with lower environmental standards than us say yes.

Does Trudeau work for Saudi Arabia or Russia.