Liberals should never have invoked the Emergencies Act in Ottawa
By Lethbridge Herald on September 1, 2022.
Editor:
This is the letter I sent to the federal committee who is looking into the use of the Emergency Act – perspectives@poec-cedu.gc.ca:
My journey with new government regulations began when I started investigating the COVID vaccine. I found that anything that went against this vaccine was quickly taken down, or labelled as misinformation. Those doctors, nurses, immunologists, scientists, etc. who spoke up about their concerns with the COVID shots were discredited, lost their jobs, and reputations. It was an incredibly difficult journey to honestly look at both sides and at the end of it, I did not feel safe taking the vaccine.
That decision meant my hoped-for trip to California was cancelled, and I could not even fly to my son’s house in Kelowna B.C. I am in a wheelchair, and flying is my only method of getting there. This move is unprecedented around the world; there is no other country that is taking the draconian measures that Canada did.
I was not able to financially support the Freedom Convoy, but I certainly did in spirit with letters to the papers or posts on Facebook. I was quite frustrated when the convoy overstayed in Ottawa; even though I still supported their cause, I expected police action to start removing them.
However, I watched in horror and disbelief when Trudeau and Freeland brought in the Emergencies Act! I had felt for some time that we were living in a dictatorship and was not sure what to do about it, but when I saw the police move in on non-violent protesters that were doing very little harm, I felt that I might as well be living in China.
It disgusts me the amount of times that Trudeau has said how much he looks up to China and the fact that they can turn their power on in any area they wish, as quickly as they want. It also absolutely infuriates me that he is in power after he went through the whole Lavalin affair and nothing was done about that because he made sure the committee was shut down. Is that what is going to happen here as well? He lied in that scandal and he lied to bring in the Emergency Act.
Bank accounts were seized and shut down on citizens across the country who supported this movement, some with irreparable harm.
I keep thinking about all the ‘conspiracy theorists’ I have talked to and how all of this is totally falling in line with everything they’ve said. I watched as the RCMP, whom I had trusted all my life, did the bidding of this corrupt Prime Minister and accosted so many non-violent people and perpetrated unwarranted violence against them.
There are a few American shows that I watch and I saw several news outlets interview Pastor Artur Palowski from Calgary who was thrown into solitary confinement for 25 days because he dared meet with truckers at the blockade at the Coutts border crossing in Alberta. The pastor talked about treatment that you would expect someone to have in a third world country but not in Canada.
That is what the Liberal government under Trudeau has fostered, and the Emergency Act has put a first-hand experience on what communism feels like in a so-called democratic country.
As far as I’m concerned, absolutely the only decision you can make is that there was a huge overreach of power by the Liberals, and the Emergency Act should never have been invoked.
Jill Skriver
Lethbridge
15-14
So while 76% of Canadians supported the Emergencies Act you want to be with the 24% of losers who didn’t and that makes you somehow smarter than the rest of us. How do you explain why police officers are praising their actions to put a stop to what these criminals were doing to Canadians and the truck drivers who were just trying to do their jobs? “Teamsters Denounce Freedom Convoy Blockade At Canadian Borders” You don’t care what the people of Ottawa went through with horns blaring all night and their children being frightened. You don’t care that they had to go to work the next day without sleep and what it did to our cost of living. You don’t care that they were stock piling guns at Coutts and were intending to shoot Police officers. I can assure you no one in my world agrees with you. .
Agree FC. Guess Biff will be adding his 2 cents worth about protecting his body from pharma.🤬
Whether you want to believe it or not saving lives was a lot more important than allowing criminals to treat us like morons, ignoring what doctors were warning. A lot of us have had covid now that we have had our shots and it was basically just a bad cold and we are thankful that our governments protected us the way they did, although these fake conservatives under Kenney are responsible for a lot more deaths than there should have been.
Leaders of the truck convoy protests sought to overthrow the federal government. Within the Criminal Code, the word “sedition” comes to mind.
“Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. In Canada, sedition which includes speaking seditious words, is an indictable offense, for which the maximum punishment is 14 years imprisonment.”
Some of the folks involved with the “freedom convoy movement” face future trials. Will they be charged with sedition? Perhaps we need to get a lot more strict with this sort of toxic behavior, including weapons charges and intent to kill RCMP officers in Alberta, so yes, invoking the Emergencies Act was necessary. We lost control of our capital city, which many other countries would not even let happen in the first place. We also need to pay more attention to, and act on, our intelligence information warning us of this sort of action.
And just to know, which isn’t being broadcast on mainstream media, there were 42 Covid deaths in Alberta this past week, and, there are still, over 800 people in Alberta in hospital with covid including 20 in ICU. The hospitalization and ICU numbers are down but probably because many of them died.
Well said. The ones still dying are ones who have refused to get vaccinated we are told, but the government is hiding it from the public. Those of us who did get vaccinated and have had Covid, including an 11 year old grandson are thankful we did. It was nothing more than a bad cold and wouldn’t have been without the vaccines.
What is your source for saying that the ones who have refused to get vaccinated are the ones who are dying? Are you focussing just on deaths by people who have tested positive for Covid-19, or have you looked at all-cause mortality?
I know an elderly person who didn’t get vaccinated, tested positive for Covid, and had symptoms even milder than a bad cold. My guess is that this was because the variant was Omicron, but there might be other factors. So you can’t be sure at all that it would have been worse for you if you hadn’t got vaccinated.
I keep on seeing more and more evidence that the vaccinations are causing more harm than benefits. For example, here’s a paper, titled “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults” published just yesterday: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22010283. It says that the Moderna and the Pfizer vaccine trial data appeared to have a negative benefit/harm ratio. What do you make of that?
No I have been listening to the experts retired doctors who know the facts. They knew this would happen with fools who refused to get vaccinated. It leaves them as perfect targets for Covid to attack, why wouldn’t it? my friends and family are certainly happy they got vaccinated or we likely would have been one of them. most of us still remember the Polio Days when vaccines shut it down. The big question is what if your parents hadn’t bothered to get you vaccinated as a child, would be alive today with what we all when through? Polio, mumps, measles, smallpox etc. My 8 year old grandson says it best. “Why are these big men so afraid of a little needle. It didn’t hurt anymore than getting hit with a puck playing hockey”. You might want to be a heroes and show how tough you are, and make a fool of yourself we weren’t that stupid.
So when you listen to these experts and doctors do they take into account all-cause mortality?
FC it is interesting how these anti vax and anti maskers will pull up info against vaccinations and masks use but over look the fact that people will develop an allergic reaction to every vax there is and that is not included in their rebuttal. Have there been deaths from this vaccine? Yes but the numbers as opposed to larger numbers who have received it typical with all vaccines like polio etc. Their argument is weak at best and there is data to prove it. They will still claim red is blue even if it is really red regardless of the info. Many of the deaths result from other causes but recorded as a reaction to the vaccine by these anti vaxers.
The deaths are far more than any vaccine on the market, and other vaccines were taken off the market long before they reached this level. The media won’ t report anything negative, and discredit those who do.
Info from rightwing source
Could you explain what you mean? Are you saying that the VAERS database is a rightwing source?
another brilliant “science-based” retort from jim0. ironic, too, that one who believes he stands for freedom will come with any retort so as to support govt overreaches. fascism is ok, so long as it supports what yas likes, right?
Biff wouldn’t know fascism if it stood in his face.Again your science is based what…from the internet? Typical couch surfing bs. Again what is your background?
I have talked with scientist I worked alongside with who are world renowned virologists while biff has what…pulled his crap from the internet? Ya guess that makes him more knowledgeable in the subject at hand. Master of bs.
In referencing the Science Direct paper you imply it is a definitive statement regarding the chances of adverse effects from both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. I question this characterization.
To explain, you fail to mention two important qualifications offered in the paper. Fist, at the beginning of the paper we find the following statement: “The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes.” And near the end, the authors make this point: “We emphasize that our investigation is preliminary.”
I agree that the paper is not definitive, and I did not imply it. It is only one example of a great deal of evidence that I have come across that points away from the safe and effective narrative. Until this sort of evidence is allowed to be brought into consideration we risk making tragic mistakes due to confirmation bias. As the part that you quote says, the “study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses”. Such analyses cannot be done if the data showing harms is suppressed.
Baloney! The impression you left is clear. The only question is if that was your intention or if you were sloppy. Only you know the answer, but I’m not holding my breath for an honest response.
Let me save you the trouble: You’re just asking questions.
I don’t know what your impression was, but I do not say that I am just asking questions. I want to let people know that there is a great deal of counter-narrative evidence that they may not know about. Many people will not come across the counter-narrative evidence. You won’t hear about it on the CBC.
Everyone is susceptible to confirmation bias. That includes myself, but it also includes the authorities. For the most part the authorities have been telling us what to believe, but not explaining the evidence and the science behind what they want us to believe. This makes it difficult to assess how much they are staying on message for political reasons, as opposed to doing the hard work of overcoming confirmation bias.
When I look at the science, and the statistics for myself, what I find is alarming. But I find much of it difficult to understand. I’m not an expert, so I don’t want to be telling you what to believe, but I do want you to begin wondering if something has gone seriously wrong with how this pandemic has been handled.
I feel sorry for people who may be ruining their health by being overly trusting and I’m sorry if you cannot hear what I’m saying because you think I must be dishonest.
you consistently stay on the high road. you consistently express your position that we need to examine and question openly, with reasoning and evidence. and yet. you are typically met with opinion. it is no wonder the earth was flat for so very long; that women were not worthy of the vote, or athletic, or smart enough to have careers and such, or gays were – based on science – sick people and criminalised, that the lighter the skin colour the smarter and more evolved the human etc. nothing like socially conditioned public opinion – even supported by “science” – to keep us all so free and enlightened.
thanks, andrew, for sharing and adding to the discussion.
negging this bevvy of facts only further supports my point.
I am so sorry you received so many negative comments. you hit the nail on the head and the sheep are bleating. They are unwilling to review their decision. In fact this whole fiasco could have been concluded, if Trudeau had met with the truckers. The fact is OUR GOVERNMENT abandoned us for the beliefs of the WEF.
You obviously haven’t been talking to any retired RCMP officers like we have? You can bet Trudeau was told not to go anywhere near them. Would you if you had idiots threatening your life? Do you agree with reporters being spit on and having their lives threatened because their TV stations were promoting getting vaccinated? Do you agree with the stock piling of weapons that if they had been taken to Ottawa and used on the crowd to kill police officers could have been another Vegas disaster?
Why don’t you google this interview with one of these lunatics Pat King
“Convoy Trucker Organizer Pat King Answers Questions on Racist Interview: Catch The Bullet”.
Anyone in there right mind shouldn’t be anywhere near this guy, why would you?
Thank you, and I agree with you.
Thank you Jill for writing this excellent letter. Unlike many of the commenters here and on other letters to the Lethbridge Herald it appears you have actually tried to get a sense for yourself of the direction in which the evidence points. Too many are simply falling in line with the majority opinion. They think the majority opinion is scientific consensus. But genuine consensus is not possible when many dissenting views are suppressed. Neither is it science when the safe and effective claims have not undergone adequate testing against reality. It is often tragic when majority opinion becomes mass illusion.
As my friends would say there is no sense in being stupid and 76% of Canadians don’t share in this stupidity, why would they?
76%+ got the “jab”, even though it hadn’t gone through the regular clinical trials, and there are Doctors, nurses, immunologists, scientists, even employees of Pfizer and Moderna, who spoke out against the vaccine, and all were silenced and discredited. It is disgusting that open, honest debate is no longer allowed, and some are forced to take this vaccine or lose thier jobs. That is stupidity forced on us from the highest level; Trudeau.
Thank you, and I agree with everything you said as well.