Canadians are really nice people.  They’re highly educated, bilingual, clean, reasonable, and polite to a fault.  When Canadians get angry enough to engage in a large-scale protest, you know something is seriously wrong.  Since late January, truckers all across Canada, have been protesting Canada’s Wuhan virus restrictions.  The biggest protest found thousands of truckers descending on Ottawa, where they blocked streets, and for a time, a bridge linking Ontario with Michigan.   The popular story is that the truckers are protesting against the Canadian and U.S. vaccine mandates for crossing the U.S.-Canada border.  That’s part of it, but there’s a lot more to it.  As more than 90% of Canadian truckers already are vaccinated, this is not simply anti-vaccine griping.  It’s more elemental.  What the truckers are protesting against is the extent of and absurdity of the myriad Wuhan restrictions.  They’re not against reasonable restrictions to protect health, just the really arbitrary and stupid ones.  As an example of arbitrary stupidity, think of the restaurant rules we had in New Jersey, and which are still in place in many cities.  A mask is required when entering the restaurant.  Once seated, while talking and eating, no mask is required, a mask is then required to exit.  Canadian truckers face this absurdity on a national scale.  Truckers don’t have to be vaccinated while driving within Canada.  Truckers entering the country have to show proof of vaccine status.  Unvaccinated foreign truckers aren’t allowed to enter the country, while unvaccinated Canadian truckers re-entering the country after a U.S. stop are subject to testing and a 14-day quarantine.  Now, that’s dumb enough, but it’s not the whole story.  The testing and quarantine requirements don’t kick in immediately after crossing the border.  A trucker could enter Canada from New York, drive across the continent to British Columbia, more than 2,100 miles away, make his delivery, then drive home for a test and 14 day quarantine.  If the government is concerned about drivers transmitting the virus, why does that concern arise only after the delivery is made, days or weeks after entry?  If this nonsense makes you smell a rat, you’re very perceptive, and that rat resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, because this is a concerted action.  The U.S. also mandates vaccination of foreign truckers entering the country, only our mandate is even more absurd, because Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is perfectly willing to verify that the driver of the truck entering from Mexico has been vaccinated, but is not at all concerned that the 80 illegal aliens being carried in the truck are unvaccinated; such being the extent of our homegrown absurd stupidity.  But back to Canada.  The truckers are justifiably upset.   They asked only that the government listen to their complaints, but instead of listening, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau chose to vilify them as racist, white supremecist terrorists.  There is no evidence for this claim.  The truckers have committed no violence and have displayed no racist motivations.  In truth, the protesting truckers are of all races and backgrounds.

  Trudeau ordered the truckers to disperse.  When they refused, he invoked the Emergencies Act, which allows Trudeau to order various measures that could include banning people from gathering in certain areas as well as restricting their travel across the country.  These powers were not invoked after 9-11, nor were they invoked in 2020 when BLM and Antifa blocked roads and actually did violence.  In fact, these extraordinary powers had been used only once before, by Trudeau’s father Pierre, in 1970, when members of the terrorist Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped and murdered Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte.  I guess the fascist apple didn’t fall far from the tree.  But Justin is worse than his father because horn-honking  pales in comparison to kidnapping and murder.  As this is written, Trudeau the younger has promised to seize bank accounts of the truckers, cancel their licenses and insurance, and he could order military action against the protestors.  The prevailing consensus, even in Canada, is that this action is a major political miscalculation by Trudeau.  The leaders in Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba want nothing to do with it.  What Trudeau’s actions amount to is a decision to kill the protests to settle a personal score, as many of the protestors have voiced their strong opposition to the Trudeau government.

The truckers even have gone so far as to paint Trudeau as the offspring of another well-known dictator –

Trudeau’s mistake is much more than a simple dispute with truck drivers.  What he has decided to do is to tolerate and even support violent protests by BLM and Antifa, despite their criminal activities, while brutally suppressing the peaceful truckers.  This is madness, as it represents Trudeau’s choice to stand with the factions of society that contribute the least while demanding the most, and to punish the very people who, throughout the pandemic, worked tirelessly without complaint, despite the risks to their health.  Simply put, Trudeau has chosen to back the malcontent takers, most likely to bring about the end of civilization, at the expense of the hard-working truckers who labor to deliver the goods that make civilization possible.  “If you’ve got it, a truck brought it” is not just a facile Teamsters slogan, it’s the absolute truth.  When the Canadian government takes away the vehicles, licenses, insurance and operating capital of the truckers, who will drive the trucks and make the deliveries?  My brother, also a trucker, put it best, “They should just park their trucks, and then nobody eats.”  Once again, Trudeau’s response to this problem is madness.  All the truckers want are the freedoms promised to them by the Canadian national anthem,  “God keep our land glorious and free!  O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.”  And where did Castreau get such a nutty idea?  From the worst place possible.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden called Trudeau and urged him to “exercise his federal powers.”  These two were made for each another.  Both are dangerous.  They’re working together to cancel freedom on both sides of the border.  We must put a political end to this tyranny.