I wish I could express how much your newsletter has come to mean to me. It is a clear bell of thinking in a world that has become muddled and alien in many ways.
I am with the truckers and tried to support them financially. The Trudeau government is going to try to crush these people in the most hideous and secretive way by going after their bank accounts. These are working people without deep savings and financial resources. One or two weeks without access to their accounts will mean dire consequences for them. Trudeau is cruel and evil.
The American convoys are forming up now to drive to D. C. The local organizer has asked to support them in the form of gas cards, food and water. Real, tangible goods can't be frozen by a totalitarian government. Can't happen here? Biden invoked emergency powers similar to what Trudeau did on Friday. It sure can happen here.
God bless you Heather for helping all of us stay informed and fight the good fight.
Thank you so much Naomi. Let us all keep working for clarity, to stay and get ever better informed, and to not forget that we are all human. Let us look each other in the eyes and say: I see you. I may not agree with you. I may not like you. I may wish desperately for you to stop doing what you are doing. But I see that you are human.
And always remember that it's not Biden, but the people behind the curtains pulling the strings. There's a lot of people in power who are willing to circumvent the Constitution for their own personal gains and are willing to use whatever figure they can to do so.
I wonder how this will play out in DC. Considering what's going on in Canada I can't help but feel very pessimistic as of this moment.
Oh, there's no doubt about that. My argument is more that all of this is not coming from just Biden, but there are many people who need all of this to go on and are using Biden for their advantage.
Thank you for continuing the coverage of the happenings in Ottawa and Canada as a whole. I was watching Viva Frei's coverage of the vote to approve the Emergencies Act and it was quite an unsettling stream. Viva and his co-streamer Runkle were visibly upset with the outcome, to the point that Viva swore several times (he tries to avoid doing so).
This approval, and really everything related to COVID tends to parallel one another. Omicron has cause all previous measures against COVID to be made obsolete, and yet in many aspects some of them continue with renewed vigor. The truckers have left Ottawa, and yet Trudeau still finds it necessary to provide himself and the Liberal Party of Canada even more powers to quash...what exactly?
At this point any public policy being made is being done so with the attempt to hold onto the last bit of power they can. COVID was hardly ever about science or medicine, it was about finding a niche to obtain power and exert power, and at a time when people should be giving up their powers they would rather hold on under the guise that an ever-looming threat against democracy will emerge and must be dealt with, for the sake of social order.
Yes. The fact that Omicron changed the Covid landscape, but the policies did not change with it--indeed, were often implemented with renewed vigor, as you say--reveals that the "public health" policies cannot be about public health. This does not prove that they never were, but it does imply that, strongly in my opinion.
Viva Frei on Rumble and YouTube. What a wonderful find for the last few weeks. His weekly sidebar conversations with Barnes Law in the US are also really worth watching.
Thank you for this description and these pictures, Heather.
This psychological and information war is astounding, and I don't understand how people are so blind, and not only willing to hand over their own freedoms, but gladly hand mine over as well. This is the fight of our lifetime, and I pray that in 2022 those who value freedom and individuality all over the world will be strong enough to ensure that at this fork in the road, we take the right path.
Maajid Nawaz on the last JRE suggested government is acting under advisement of “military grade psychological operation” in order to further an authoritarian agenda. Justin Trudeau is a polished, practiced actor, and he is dishing out what he is told. If resistance is what is necessary, it has to have the same intelligence, coordination, and slickness that is on display. My fear is they too will play whack-a-mole with those that will coordinate such efforts. It's all happened so fast, I think it has been planned.
The conversation between Maajid Nawaz and Joe Rogan is one that everyone should listen to--the podcast equivalent of actually "must-see-tv."
I don't know if the resistance has to have the same visual slickness as, say, Trudeau (although he seems to have gotten away with rather a lot of deeply-unslick "blunders" in the past), but yes, we need intelligence and coordination. It would also help if we had similar access to the various seats of power--government, finance, media, Hollywood, academia, corporate science, public health agencies, on and on and on. That's not going to happen, so we need to be lithe and flexible instead.
Agreed. It seems insurmountable. I even pondered the other day if we could start Crowdfunding good science - like proving health benefits of herbal remedies, things that can't be patented, but then the Truckers thing came and we found out that Crowdfunding is captured. I'm hearing more and more talk on Parallel Societies, the "fuck it, let's move on without them because they are burning everything down for unknown objectives"... and it is starting to sound like a decent option.
What a remarkable piece. Do we know how to slow down the forces already in motion? (the forces of division, dehumanization). Any lessons from history, as to how to avert this? I'm inherently pessimistic (a flaw I'm intensely working on). We seem to be unable to learn "generic" lessons from history (I apologize for the word, couldn't think of a better one, English is not my native language).
What I mean is this: People who believe and support Trudeau see themselves as informed and educated. Surely opposed to racism, fascism, totalitarianism. They are ever vigilant of nazism, white supremacy, antisemitism (which would constitute SPECIFIC lessons of history), though I doubt that such awful and dark chapters of history would be repeated in the same fashion. A "Generic" lesson of history (acknowledgement of the timeless imperfections of human nature) would allow us to detect other possible manifestations: Anti-white racism, CRT, Enforced Equity, Reclassification of Terrorism, Criminalization of Dissent, etc.
"Othering"... seems like a clear generic lesson of history we are far from learning. But in our current state of arrogance, our present circumstances justify the othering. And othering in 2022 is not othering, we tell ourselves. We are surely more sophisticated than those previous generations who managed to find a justification for "othering", we tell ourselves. I actually hear this, from people around me. As if our remarkable technology, relative prosperity and supposed education had removed us from the realm of flawed beings with numerous psychological quirks, and had placed us instead into a state of perfect reasoning machines.
Ironically, technology has provided the mechanism for "othering" in the form of the gofundme hack. I am still in shock that I was able to click on a google map of everyone who donated to the truckers that includes where they live or work, their names, and email. It will be the main mechanism to "othering". The fact that I am a paid member here may in the not-too-distant future cause me to lose everything. Fun times!
Feb 22, 2022·edited Feb 22, 2022Liked by Heather Heying
Fantastic article, Heather! Things are happening so quickly here in Canada. Just today, I joined a group of hundreds of concerned Canadians who are gathering information on how to apply for political asylum and leave the country. As it is right now, we cannot leave the country without a vaxport. The vitriol from those Canadians who have vaxports, and thus qualify for the 'treats', is shocking and heartbreaking.
Heather's insight about "treats" is brilliant and worth one of her podcasts as a focus. I think about our wonderful dog who spins circles and is beside himself with happiness every Sunday afternoon when I let my stepdad administer to him a bowl of treats one by one. Cute in a dog, terrifying if it is that simple in humans.
Thank you so much for your ongoing coverage. This whole day I and many other Canadians have been deep in shock and grief. It is hard to remember the wave of hope and goodwill that Trudeau started with in 2015. Remember when you had Trump and we had this tattooed Greek god in yoga poses? Sure, he was inexperienced, but so charismatic. Give the boy a chance, right? I fear this whole drama is just beginning. Time to get to know your neighbours, people. The real ones next door in meat space.
This was posted to Dr. Malone's Substack by a follower, you and your followers may appreciate as well. Perhaps can be a leading theme for the US convoy:
"Stephanie Brail
Writes Wholistic ·Feb 20·edited Feb 20
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion here but I've been covering the Canadian convoy a lot on my Substack in the past week and I made a "parody song" of Mad World where I mention the truckers (and Fauci and Trudeau) - https://wholistic.substack.com/p/mad-world-parody-faucis-world - I'm hoping more people will see it since I worked hard on it. Thank you!"
What is this apathy? The lack of love for this world? Why do we not feel compassion towards our fellow humans and other species of life? What have we become? Hard questions need answering. My heart breaks.
Many people are puzzled, not to say scandalized, by the double standard evident in Canada when it comes to the people's right to protest. Whereas the truckers protesting peacefully in Ottawa are vilified and treated as criminals, the mobs that destroy private property, topple statues, set fires to churches, vandalize CGL pipeline sites are treated with understanding and clemency and in some cases are looked up to.
You'd think that, in Canada, we are all equal under the law. But, as Trudeau's Emergency Act makes clear, we are wrong about that:
Emergency Measures Regulations: SOR/2022-21
(2) Subsection (1):
A person must not participate in a public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace by:
• (a) the serious disruption of the movement of persons or goods or the serious interference with trade;
• (b) the interference with the functioning of critical infrastructure; o,
• (c) the support of the threat or use of acts of serious violence against persons or property.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to:
• (a) a person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act;
• (b) a person who has been recognized as a convention refugee or a person in similar circumstances to those of a Convention refugee within the meaning of subsection 146(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations who is issued a permanent resident visa under subsection 139(1) of those regulations;
• (c) a person who has been issued a temporary resident permit within the meaning of subsection 24(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and who seeks to enter Canada as a protected temporary resident under subsection 151.1(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations;
• (d) a person who seeks to enter Canada for the purpose of making a claim for refugee protection.
• (e) a protected person (defined as a person on whom refugee protection is conferred and whose claim or application has not been subsequently deemed to be rejected);
• (f) a person or any person in a class of persons whose presence in Canada, as determined by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, is in the national interest.
So, If you are not registered as an Indian, if you're not a foreigner, but happen to be just an ordinary Canadian citizen, your right to participate in a public assembly is not protected.
I find the last exception (f) to this Subsection of the Act particularly revealing.Trudeau's Green & Woke Agenda have been at the center of his policies. He likely considers people who support these agendas to be "persons whose presence in Canada is in the national interest". We should not be surprised that he’s guarantying their protection.
You’ve described it so clearly and simply. I’m moved by human sensibilities, strength, desire for truth and compassion even against powerful forces. “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” My thanks to all of you who are doing something in your own way, big or small. Our Creator instilled in us the understanding that we are meant to be free.
Heather, your writings always give me affirmation that my beliefs are worthy of consideration and voice and that amidst what sometimes seems the destruction of freedom, there is hope!
There has also long been writing about the very odd agreements that politicians from a variety of countries have made with the WHO that seems to supercede our own constitutions as if those signatures had authority or were legal: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/coronavirus/pandemic-treaty/
Pelham at Twitter is discussing this:
"Pelham
@Resist_05
WHO treaty to override a countries constitution in future “PANDEMICS”
WHO Constitution will take precedence over a country's constitution during natural disasters or pandemics
This would make their “guidelines” mandatory to the public of all countries who sign up."
How can these events be better confirmed or followed?
So if Canada loses this then what? How do Canada and US work together to resist it?
If Canada "loses", the rest of the democratic nations would have to identify it, speak out against it, and step in, or they risk the same fate. Right now, the only one with the ability to do that without an army is the Queen of England ... but given Australia, New Zealand are both in the same boat and noone has said anything, I expect the same trend to continue for Canada.
I'm so sorry for what you have endured and I'm sorry for the hardships your granddaughters have endured. Remember that not everyone who is double shotted will have side effects and for some people it DOES seem to work. Regarding early protocols; my doctors refused to prescribe any antivirals, saying because I was vaccinated I would be fine in 5 days. Well, I'm not fine. I was leery to take the ivermectin I ordered, at great cost, on the internet because lupus has messed with my kidneys and I knew if the ivm made them an issue, that my doctors would brand me a kook and non-compliant and I may even have lost the codeine prescription I need to keep me through my flares. It is not as simple as finding a new dr when you are on SSDI. NONE of my doctors prescribed any of the early treatments except one medical study I was enrolled in for fenofibrate, a drug that may treat it. I had no access to any of the antivirals. I don't understand why doctors aren't prescribing it.
Heather, I greatly respect your work as someone also exiled from academia during proto-woke uprisings that threatened my own safety and the safety of a pregnant colleague. I am grateful for your calm and sane words regarding the immutability of biology. I am on SSDI as covid completely disabled me due to my autoimmune condition. My sister caught covid before any vaccines where available and had a stroke from a mild case. Her heart stopped as well. She requires a form of chemotherapy to walk that ironically makes her more vulnerable to reinfection. I just have this to say and paid for my account just to comment this: don't you care about truly immunocompromised people out there, people like my sister and I, who still have to walk and be in the world? These convoy protests were dangerous because they bring people together to spread a virus during a surge. At the risk of being piled on here --- don't you and Ashleigh care that people who deny the severity and existence of covid put our lives at risk? Covid is a vascular illness and a chimeric virus. It is an engineered bioweapon. It breaks my heart that the vaccines don't work. I wish we had the kind that the Cubans and Vietnamese are using. It just seems that by celebrating those who gathered together during a surge (the convoy began before the surge was winding down), that people are saying that they are tired of considering the existence of people like me and don't care if we die horribly and painfully and alone from covid. I lost my uncle and aunt to the virus. My sister was permanently disabled. I am now disabled. Don't we deserve to walk freely without worrying we will be accosted for wearing masks, as some people were by this convoy. And for what it is worth I don't believe in mandates and think the virus and the war were engineered by the WEF to usher in the great reset. So I'm no liberal.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and concerns, Cait.
I disagree that the Convoy put immunocompromised people at enhanced risk from Covid, however. As early as Spring 2020 it was clear that SARS-CoV2 didn't transmit well outside, and that was reinforced when the #BlackLivesMatter protests of the Summer of 2020 proved not to be putting people at risk from Covid. (My very different positions on the value and origins of those two protests is irrelevant to the fact that large gatherings outside have not been demonstrated to be super-spreader events, or to be responsible for transmitting the virus at all, due to its continued nearly complete inability to transmit outdoors, for which we should all be very grateful). I also think we need large-scale humane responses to the homelessness that is pervading my and many cities, especially on the West coast, but recognizing that homelessness is a problem for the homeless and the non-homeless alike is not the same as agreeing that the homeless are aggravating Covid or more likely to get it; in fact they are not.
I feel for you. I do. My oldest, dearest friend is immunocompromised, and I have watched and been with her as she has made some very difficult decisions throughout these last two years. But I disagree with on two fronts, one of which is factual, the other not.
The first: the protests are not contributing to the spread of Covid.
The second: I disagree that civil liberties (the right to assembly, among others) should be thrown out, under (almost) any circumstances. An emotional plea can always be made; I cannot imagine any policy with which 100% of people are in agreement, or from which all benefit equally. In this case I do not think you are in any way harmed by the actions of the protestors. But even if you had the capacity to be--even if my friend did--that is not sufficient reason to undermine democracy.
I wish I could express how much your newsletter has come to mean to me. It is a clear bell of thinking in a world that has become muddled and alien in many ways.
I am with the truckers and tried to support them financially. The Trudeau government is going to try to crush these people in the most hideous and secretive way by going after their bank accounts. These are working people without deep savings and financial resources. One or two weeks without access to their accounts will mean dire consequences for them. Trudeau is cruel and evil.
The American convoys are forming up now to drive to D. C. The local organizer has asked to support them in the form of gas cards, food and water. Real, tangible goods can't be frozen by a totalitarian government. Can't happen here? Biden invoked emergency powers similar to what Trudeau did on Friday. It sure can happen here.
God bless you Heather for helping all of us stay informed and fight the good fight.
Thank you so much Naomi. Let us all keep working for clarity, to stay and get ever better informed, and to not forget that we are all human. Let us look each other in the eyes and say: I see you. I may not agree with you. I may not like you. I may wish desperately for you to stop doing what you are doing. But I see that you are human.
And always remember that it's not Biden, but the people behind the curtains pulling the strings. There's a lot of people in power who are willing to circumvent the Constitution for their own personal gains and are willing to use whatever figure they can to do so.
I wonder how this will play out in DC. Considering what's going on in Canada I can't help but feel very pessimistic as of this moment.
I saw a news report this morning they are putting up fence barriers in D. C.
Biden is corrupt. Yes, he has dementia but he has been corrupt his entire political life.
Coming around to the latter. The convoy is reported to be staying outside of DC limits so the fences are not necessary.
That's a smart move. I saw a news item the Biden administration is considering activating the National Guard.
Oh, there's no doubt about that. My argument is more that all of this is not coming from just Biden, but there are many people who need all of this to go on and are using Biden for their advantage.
It's Obama's third term as all his people are holding key positions in this administration.
Thank you for continuing the coverage of the happenings in Ottawa and Canada as a whole. I was watching Viva Frei's coverage of the vote to approve the Emergencies Act and it was quite an unsettling stream. Viva and his co-streamer Runkle were visibly upset with the outcome, to the point that Viva swore several times (he tries to avoid doing so).
This approval, and really everything related to COVID tends to parallel one another. Omicron has cause all previous measures against COVID to be made obsolete, and yet in many aspects some of them continue with renewed vigor. The truckers have left Ottawa, and yet Trudeau still finds it necessary to provide himself and the Liberal Party of Canada even more powers to quash...what exactly?
At this point any public policy being made is being done so with the attempt to hold onto the last bit of power they can. COVID was hardly ever about science or medicine, it was about finding a niche to obtain power and exert power, and at a time when people should be giving up their powers they would rather hold on under the guise that an ever-looming threat against democracy will emerge and must be dealt with, for the sake of social order.
Yes. The fact that Omicron changed the Covid landscape, but the policies did not change with it--indeed, were often implemented with renewed vigor, as you say--reveals that the "public health" policies cannot be about public health. This does not prove that they never were, but it does imply that, strongly in my opinion.
Viva Frei on Rumble and YouTube. What a wonderful find for the last few weeks. His weekly sidebar conversations with Barnes Law in the US are also really worth watching.
Thank you for this description and these pictures, Heather.
This psychological and information war is astounding, and I don't understand how people are so blind, and not only willing to hand over their own freedoms, but gladly hand mine over as well. This is the fight of our lifetime, and I pray that in 2022 those who value freedom and individuality all over the world will be strong enough to ensure that at this fork in the road, we take the right path.
https://etana.substack.com/p/wall-street-welcome-to-the-party
Thanks for this Etana--the money will tell the story if no one else will. I started following you.
Thanks Betsy! For some reason, this angle of the story lights me up.
Maajid Nawaz on the last JRE suggested government is acting under advisement of “military grade psychological operation” in order to further an authoritarian agenda. Justin Trudeau is a polished, practiced actor, and he is dishing out what he is told. If resistance is what is necessary, it has to have the same intelligence, coordination, and slickness that is on display. My fear is they too will play whack-a-mole with those that will coordinate such efforts. It's all happened so fast, I think it has been planned.
The conversation between Maajid Nawaz and Joe Rogan is one that everyone should listen to--the podcast equivalent of actually "must-see-tv."
I don't know if the resistance has to have the same visual slickness as, say, Trudeau (although he seems to have gotten away with rather a lot of deeply-unslick "blunders" in the past), but yes, we need intelligence and coordination. It would also help if we had similar access to the various seats of power--government, finance, media, Hollywood, academia, corporate science, public health agencies, on and on and on. That's not going to happen, so we need to be lithe and flexible instead.
Agreed. It seems insurmountable. I even pondered the other day if we could start Crowdfunding good science - like proving health benefits of herbal remedies, things that can't be patented, but then the Truckers thing came and we found out that Crowdfunding is captured. I'm hearing more and more talk on Parallel Societies, the "fuck it, let's move on without them because they are burning everything down for unknown objectives"... and it is starting to sound like a decent option.
What a remarkable piece. Do we know how to slow down the forces already in motion? (the forces of division, dehumanization). Any lessons from history, as to how to avert this? I'm inherently pessimistic (a flaw I'm intensely working on). We seem to be unable to learn "generic" lessons from history (I apologize for the word, couldn't think of a better one, English is not my native language).
What I mean is this: People who believe and support Trudeau see themselves as informed and educated. Surely opposed to racism, fascism, totalitarianism. They are ever vigilant of nazism, white supremacy, antisemitism (which would constitute SPECIFIC lessons of history), though I doubt that such awful and dark chapters of history would be repeated in the same fashion. A "Generic" lesson of history (acknowledgement of the timeless imperfections of human nature) would allow us to detect other possible manifestations: Anti-white racism, CRT, Enforced Equity, Reclassification of Terrorism, Criminalization of Dissent, etc.
"Othering"... seems like a clear generic lesson of history we are far from learning. But in our current state of arrogance, our present circumstances justify the othering. And othering in 2022 is not othering, we tell ourselves. We are surely more sophisticated than those previous generations who managed to find a justification for "othering", we tell ourselves. I actually hear this, from people around me. As if our remarkable technology, relative prosperity and supposed education had removed us from the realm of flawed beings with numerous psychological quirks, and had placed us instead into a state of perfect reasoning machines.
Ironically, technology has provided the mechanism for "othering" in the form of the gofundme hack. I am still in shock that I was able to click on a google map of everyone who donated to the truckers that includes where they live or work, their names, and email. It will be the main mechanism to "othering". The fact that I am a paid member here may in the not-too-distant future cause me to lose everything. Fun times!
Fantastic article, Heather! Things are happening so quickly here in Canada. Just today, I joined a group of hundreds of concerned Canadians who are gathering information on how to apply for political asylum and leave the country. As it is right now, we cannot leave the country without a vaxport. The vitriol from those Canadians who have vaxports, and thus qualify for the 'treats', is shocking and heartbreaking.
Heather's insight about "treats" is brilliant and worth one of her podcasts as a focus. I think about our wonderful dog who spins circles and is beside himself with happiness every Sunday afternoon when I let my stepdad administer to him a bowl of treats one by one. Cute in a dog, terrifying if it is that simple in humans.
Thank you so much for your ongoing coverage. This whole day I and many other Canadians have been deep in shock and grief. It is hard to remember the wave of hope and goodwill that Trudeau started with in 2015. Remember when you had Trump and we had this tattooed Greek god in yoga poses? Sure, he was inexperienced, but so charismatic. Give the boy a chance, right? I fear this whole drama is just beginning. Time to get to know your neighbours, people. The real ones next door in meat space.
Beware the tattooed Greek god in yoga poses...words to live by, perhaps.
This was posted to Dr. Malone's Substack by a follower, you and your followers may appreciate as well. Perhaps can be a leading theme for the US convoy:
"Stephanie Brail
Writes Wholistic ·Feb 20·edited Feb 20
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion here but I've been covering the Canadian convoy a lot on my Substack in the past week and I made a "parody song" of Mad World where I mention the truckers (and Fauci and Trudeau) - https://wholistic.substack.com/p/mad-world-parody-faucis-world - I'm hoping more people will see it since I worked hard on it. Thank you!"
Extraordinary. Thank you for sharing it.
What is this apathy? The lack of love for this world? Why do we not feel compassion towards our fellow humans and other species of life? What have we become? Hard questions need answering. My heart breaks.
Many people are puzzled, not to say scandalized, by the double standard evident in Canada when it comes to the people's right to protest. Whereas the truckers protesting peacefully in Ottawa are vilified and treated as criminals, the mobs that destroy private property, topple statues, set fires to churches, vandalize CGL pipeline sites are treated with understanding and clemency and in some cases are looked up to.
You'd think that, in Canada, we are all equal under the law. But, as Trudeau's Emergency Act makes clear, we are wrong about that:
Emergency Measures Regulations: SOR/2022-21
(2) Subsection (1):
A person must not participate in a public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace by:
• (a) the serious disruption of the movement of persons or goods or the serious interference with trade;
• (b) the interference with the functioning of critical infrastructure; o,
• (c) the support of the threat or use of acts of serious violence against persons or property.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to:
• (a) a person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act;
• (b) a person who has been recognized as a convention refugee or a person in similar circumstances to those of a Convention refugee within the meaning of subsection 146(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations who is issued a permanent resident visa under subsection 139(1) of those regulations;
• (c) a person who has been issued a temporary resident permit within the meaning of subsection 24(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and who seeks to enter Canada as a protected temporary resident under subsection 151.1(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations;
• (d) a person who seeks to enter Canada for the purpose of making a claim for refugee protection.
• (e) a protected person (defined as a person on whom refugee protection is conferred and whose claim or application has not been subsequently deemed to be rejected);
• (f) a person or any person in a class of persons whose presence in Canada, as determined by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, is in the national interest.
So, If you are not registered as an Indian, if you're not a foreigner, but happen to be just an ordinary Canadian citizen, your right to participate in a public assembly is not protected.
I find the last exception (f) to this Subsection of the Act particularly revealing.Trudeau's Green & Woke Agenda have been at the center of his policies. He likely considers people who support these agendas to be "persons whose presence in Canada is in the national interest". We should not be surprised that he’s guarantying their protection.
You’ve described it so clearly and simply. I’m moved by human sensibilities, strength, desire for truth and compassion even against powerful forces. “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” My thanks to all of you who are doing something in your own way, big or small. Our Creator instilled in us the understanding that we are meant to be free.
Heather, your writings always give me affirmation that my beliefs are worthy of consideration and voice and that amidst what sometimes seems the destruction of freedom, there is hope!
You echo my own thoughts from January. Those of us who looked into history and saw the darkness saw that each of us posesses it in our own hearts too.
We must resist.
https://elsielayter.substack.com/p/the-holodomor-and-the-dangers-of?utm_source=url
Some out there are commenting or writing articles that are alarming about UN involvement and perhaps UN control of Canada since the truckers left: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-21-canada-has-fallen-un-occupation-globalist-control-democracy.html
There has also long been writing about the very odd agreements that politicians from a variety of countries have made with the WHO that seems to supercede our own constitutions as if those signatures had authority or were legal: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/coronavirus/pandemic-treaty/
Pelham at Twitter is discussing this:
"Pelham
@Resist_05
WHO treaty to override a countries constitution in future “PANDEMICS”
WHO Constitution will take precedence over a country's constitution during natural disasters or pandemics
This would make their “guidelines” mandatory to the public of all countries who sign up."
How can these events be better confirmed or followed?
So if Canada loses this then what? How do Canada and US work together to resist it?
If Canada "loses", the rest of the democratic nations would have to identify it, speak out against it, and step in, or they risk the same fate. Right now, the only one with the ability to do that without an army is the Queen of England ... but given Australia, New Zealand are both in the same boat and noone has said anything, I expect the same trend to continue for Canada.
I'm so sorry for what you have endured and I'm sorry for the hardships your granddaughters have endured. Remember that not everyone who is double shotted will have side effects and for some people it DOES seem to work. Regarding early protocols; my doctors refused to prescribe any antivirals, saying because I was vaccinated I would be fine in 5 days. Well, I'm not fine. I was leery to take the ivermectin I ordered, at great cost, on the internet because lupus has messed with my kidneys and I knew if the ivm made them an issue, that my doctors would brand me a kook and non-compliant and I may even have lost the codeine prescription I need to keep me through my flares. It is not as simple as finding a new dr when you are on SSDI. NONE of my doctors prescribed any of the early treatments except one medical study I was enrolled in for fenofibrate, a drug that may treat it. I had no access to any of the antivirals. I don't understand why doctors aren't prescribing it.
Heather, I greatly respect your work as someone also exiled from academia during proto-woke uprisings that threatened my own safety and the safety of a pregnant colleague. I am grateful for your calm and sane words regarding the immutability of biology. I am on SSDI as covid completely disabled me due to my autoimmune condition. My sister caught covid before any vaccines where available and had a stroke from a mild case. Her heart stopped as well. She requires a form of chemotherapy to walk that ironically makes her more vulnerable to reinfection. I just have this to say and paid for my account just to comment this: don't you care about truly immunocompromised people out there, people like my sister and I, who still have to walk and be in the world? These convoy protests were dangerous because they bring people together to spread a virus during a surge. At the risk of being piled on here --- don't you and Ashleigh care that people who deny the severity and existence of covid put our lives at risk? Covid is a vascular illness and a chimeric virus. It is an engineered bioweapon. It breaks my heart that the vaccines don't work. I wish we had the kind that the Cubans and Vietnamese are using. It just seems that by celebrating those who gathered together during a surge (the convoy began before the surge was winding down), that people are saying that they are tired of considering the existence of people like me and don't care if we die horribly and painfully and alone from covid. I lost my uncle and aunt to the virus. My sister was permanently disabled. I am now disabled. Don't we deserve to walk freely without worrying we will be accosted for wearing masks, as some people were by this convoy. And for what it is worth I don't believe in mandates and think the virus and the war were engineered by the WEF to usher in the great reset. So I'm no liberal.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and concerns, Cait.
I disagree that the Convoy put immunocompromised people at enhanced risk from Covid, however. As early as Spring 2020 it was clear that SARS-CoV2 didn't transmit well outside, and that was reinforced when the #BlackLivesMatter protests of the Summer of 2020 proved not to be putting people at risk from Covid. (My very different positions on the value and origins of those two protests is irrelevant to the fact that large gatherings outside have not been demonstrated to be super-spreader events, or to be responsible for transmitting the virus at all, due to its continued nearly complete inability to transmit outdoors, for which we should all be very grateful). I also think we need large-scale humane responses to the homelessness that is pervading my and many cities, especially on the West coast, but recognizing that homelessness is a problem for the homeless and the non-homeless alike is not the same as agreeing that the homeless are aggravating Covid or more likely to get it; in fact they are not.
I feel for you. I do. My oldest, dearest friend is immunocompromised, and I have watched and been with her as she has made some very difficult decisions throughout these last two years. But I disagree with on two fronts, one of which is factual, the other not.
The first: the protests are not contributing to the spread of Covid.
The second: I disagree that civil liberties (the right to assembly, among others) should be thrown out, under (almost) any circumstances. An emotional plea can always be made; I cannot imagine any policy with which 100% of people are in agreement, or from which all benefit equally. In this case I do not think you are in any way harmed by the actions of the protestors. But even if you had the capacity to be--even if my friend did--that is not sufficient reason to undermine democracy.