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Title: Organizer behind anti-vaccine mandate convoy says it won't tolerate extremists as online rhetoric heats up
Category: Political
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2022-01-26 08:00:49
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Well, you hitch your wagon to that train, you just know that crowd is going to jump on it. Conservatives, Western Separatists, Anti-Vaxxers . . they are all jealous of the $5m in cash raised for reasons. That's why they are all collecting personal information with the signing of petitions - for further political campaigns.

And this protest, like the others, is pointless. Even if Trudeau interferes in Health Canada's restrictions, the US will still have the exact same restrictions. And in two months, provinces will have the same restrictions as North-Soutn travel.

So go ahead, don't give a fuck about anyone else. Teachers, Nurses, Police, Soldiers all have to be vaccinated. But like the sign says, the "Heros to Zeros" should be special, and allowed to run around loose and unvaccinated.

/rant

[llama66]

Apparently GoFundMe froze their account, and one of the organizers called for members of GFM employee's to be held hostage until the money is released.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.6327665

[DrCaleb]

I am shocked that the political fringe wouldn't respect the individual choices that a free market business makes.

[JaredMilne]

The "Canada Unity" group that's so heavily involved in this movement has its own Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) that they want the Governor General and Senate to sign. The MOU commits the Governor General and Senate to somehow wave a magic wand and force the federal and all provincial and municipal governments to re-admit all employees who've been forced to isolate due to refusing to be vaccinated or wear a mask, and to also make the governments rescind all of their vaccine and mask mandate laws and orders.

Since the buffoons who drafted this apparently never took a first-year civics course, I'll provide one right now:

-The Governor General and the Senate can't override provincial decisions. The provinces have their own Lieutenant Governors and powers under the Constitution that the federal government can;'t touch. And municipalities are one of those powers.

-One of the basic principles of the Constitution is that the monarch (represented by the Governor General) reigns, but does not rule. That means that the Governor General handles a lot of symbolic and diplomatic stuff, but she can't arbitrarily override the decisions that the Prime Minister, Cabinet and Parliament make. While she could theoretically refuse to give Royal Assent to Parliament's legislation, it's considered extremely bad and she can't "take back" Royal Assent she or her predecessors have already given previous laws.

-The monarch's government (specifically, the Prime Minister and Cabinet) are responsible to the Legislature (IOW, to Parliament) to have any legitimacy to govern.

-The Senate's role is to provide a 'sober second thought' and review legislation passed by the House of Commons before the legislation gets Royal Assent. It can't arbitrarily dismiss legislation that's already received Royal Assent or rescind orders that government Ministers make using authority that laws passed by Parliament give them.

-Article 6 says the MOU shall be carried out 'in accordance with the Laws of Canada.' Don't these people realize that the actions they demand the Governor General and Senate take are completely unconstitutional in and of themselves?

TL;DR: The convoy's demands as represented by 'Canada Unity' are unconstitutional bullshit and their MOU has about as much legal standing as a piece of used toilet paper.

[bootlegga]

Well put Jared

[herbie]

Heard the MOU on the radio, coldn't find a link to post. Thx for pointing it out.
Here the entire "sovereign person" lunatic fringe has joined the local anti-vax movement.
They're actually proud to have had their homes, cars, etc taken away for 'standing up for their principles'. Beyond a cult.

[llama66]

Tragically for them, Sovereign Citizenry is not something that is possible in Canada. So it just show how stupid they are for thinking they can do as they please and just scream "I do not consent" when challenged.

[Thanos]

Pretty sure the convoy has been pro extremist since the beginning. All they need to appropriate now, along with the Holocaust of course, is to have the sign from the Springfield Civic Centre on The Simpsons made up to say "Welcome Extremists!".

[xerxes]

That’s a completely crazy set of demands. I’m surprised they didn’t crib some from Louis Riel’s crazy list from back in the day.