Emergencies Act passes crucial House of Commons vote with NDP support

Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2022 10:45 AM ET

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Monday. He said the decision to trigger the Emergencies Act was not one he and his government took lightly. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

A motion affirming the Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act passed a crucial House of Commons vote Monday, ensuring the expansive powers contained in the act remain in use by authorities thanks to parliamentary support from the New Democrats. 


While the powers contained in the Emergency Act took effect immediately, the Liberal government needed to seek approval for its decision to invoke the act from the House of Commons within seven days. If that vote had failed, the emergency declaration would have been revoked. 


Conservative MPs in the House booed and shouted “shame” when the first NDP MPs stood up to vote in favour of the motion. The Conservatives, however, applauded Bloc Québécois MPs when they stood to support the Conservatives.


The Liberals cheered loudly, drowning out heckles from the Conservatives when Green MP Elizabeth May voted in favour of the motion, which passed by a vote of 185 to 151.


Immediately after the vote passed, interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen stood up and tried to enter a motion recalling the use of the Emergencies Act, but that motion was ruled out of order. 

Earlier in the day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to protesters occupying some streets in downtown Ottawa, saying the decision to trigger the act was not one he and his government took lightly.


“It became clear that local and provincial authorities needed more tools to restore order and keep people safe,” he said.


Trudeau was asked if the deployment of the act is still necessary, now that police have cleared the area in front of Parliament Hill. He said his government wouldn’t keep the enhanced powers provided for under the act in place “a single day longer than necessary.”

WATCH | Emergency Act extended with support from NDP:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2005377091809/

The Liberal government was able to extend the Emergencies Act after receiving the “reluctant” support of the NDP. But anger over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke it remains, with Conservatives and Bloc members calling it unnecessary. 4:27


“Even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over,” he said.


Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who was with Trudeau at his news conference, said a number of people affiliated with the protests remain in the city.


“We have to remain vigilant, and not only in Ottawa but at our ports of entry,” he said, referring to a number of blockades at Canada-U.S. border crossings, including Coutts, Alta., and Windsor, Ont.

WATCH | Mendicino says state of emergency won’t last ‘single moment’ longer than needed: 

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2005224003945/

Mendicino says state of emergency won’t last ‘single moment’ longer than needed.

Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino says the state of emergency is not ready to be lifted, but all of government agrees it will not stay in place any longer than necessary. 2:30

Last week, the federal Liberals invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time since its passage in 1988 to deal with an anti-vaccine mandate protest that had been occupying downtown Ottawa for weeks. The measures set out in the act have been in effect ever since.

The New Democrats indicated early on that they would support the government’s use of the act but urged the Liberals to tread carefully, and said they are reserving the right to pull support at any time.


“We share the concern of many Canadians that the government may misuse the powers in the Emergencies Act, so I want to be very clear: We will be watching. We will withdraw our support if, at any point, we feel these powers are being misused,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told the House at the start of the debate on Thursday. 

Trudeau walks across an empty Wellington Street to a news conference in Ottawa Monday. The Emergencies Act passed by a vote of 185 to 151 on Monday night in a rare weekend sitting of the House of Commons. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Singh again promised his party’s “reluctant support” for triggering the Emergencies Act early Monday, saying New Democrats are prepared to trigger a second vote if they decide that the measures provided for under the act are no longer necessary.


“It’s not a blank cheque. We are prepared to pull our support as soon as … the act is no longer needed,” he said Monday.


The act states that it cannot be in force for more than 30 days from the date it was invoked, in this case Feb. 14.


Singh said New Democrats would not support its use for that long and called on the government to provide regular updates to MPs.

WATCH | Jagmeet Singh says NDP will ‘reluctantly’ support use of Emergencies Act in vote:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2005252163946/

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will ‘reluctantly’ support use of Emergencies Act in Commons vote

Singh says his party reserves the right to pull its support on the use of the Emergencies Act if certain criteria are no longer met. 2:19


At least two Liberal MPs expressed doubts about the continued use of the act in the lead up to the vote. 


Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith said that despite reservations he would support the motion because the vote was a question of confidence — one that would trigger a general election if the government loses.


“I’m not convinced that the emergency measures should continue to exist beyond today,” he said during the House of Commons debate on Monday.


“The disagreement I’ve expressed here does not amount to non-confidence, and I have no interest in an election at this time.”


Quebec MP Joël Lightbound echoed Erskine-Smith, saying he would vote against the use of the act if it wasn’t a confidence vote.

Conservatives, Bloc oppose use of act

The at-times tense and personal debate over the Emergencies Act has pitted the Liberal government against the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois, a combination Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux referred to as an “unholy alliance.”


Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, who is seeking his party’s leadership, accused Prime Minister Trudeau of engineering the crisis for political gain.


“They have attempted to amplify and take advantage of every pain, every fear, every tragedy that has struck throughout this pandemic in order to divide one person against another and replace the people’s freedom with the government’s power,” he said Saturday.

The Conservatives argued that the protests did not rise to the level of an emergency and did not warrant the use of extraordinary powers.


Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the government didn’t need to invoke the Emergencies Act — that what it needed to do was to provide Ottawa police with additional officers to remove the protesters.


“The police did its job, and it’s a wonderful job which has been done here in the last few days, and by itself it is a proof that this law never had to be used in anyway,” he said outside of Parliament Hill on Monday.

RCMP says it’s not going after small donors

Some Conservative MPs have suggested that police could freeze the bank accounts of small donors who may have given money to the protest early on.


In a statement released Monday, the RCMP said it has provided banks only with the names of organizers and owners of trucks who had refused to leave the protest area.


“At no time did we provide a list of donors to financial institutions,” the statement said.


Police have succeeded in dislodging protesters from their main encampment near Parliament Hill and have established a secure perimeter with fencing. Authorities have towed the vehicles that have occupied much of the city’s downtown core for more than three weeks.


In defending their decision, Liberals have pointed repeatedly to comments made by interim Ottawa police Chief Steve Bell on Friday. Bell said the Emergencies Act allowed police to set up barriers and secure an area in the city’s downtown.


The Senate must also vote on the act’s use but debate has not started yet in that chamber.

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With files from the CBC’s Peter Zimonjic

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Freedom’s funeral: Darkness descends over dazed Canadians

Freedom’s funeral:

Darkness descends over dazed Canadians

By John Kaminski

In the end, there were no heroes, only desperate despots flexing their mindless muscle over betrayed and bewildered people unable to comprehend the horror they witnessed unleashed upon them.

The awesome quest for freedom in Canada was crushed by the brutal pomposity of a government gone mad with a power that had decreed its own senseless mandates took precedence over the noble goals of freedom and justice by which their nation had been established.

Children were snatched from their parents, dogs were impounded and threatened with death, and families who had nobly crusaded for freedom from tyrannical and toxic restrictions were torn asunder in the freezing cold of a foul February night.

Worst of all a crippled old woman only demonstrating for righteousness and honesty was trampled to death beneath the hooves of police horses parading forth the perverted power of a gruesome government cruelly displaying the brutal bitterness of insane tyrants who could no longer be trusted by anyone.

Canada has descended into a hell from which it will likely never emerge, and worse than that, foreshadowed a madness spreading across the entire planet of governments deliberately killing their own people to conceal the financial crimes it has committed against them.

The world watched in horror as the mental illness of unchecked authority destroyed the hope of patriotic conviction with arbitrary and casual abuse of men, women and children who had thought they were free, and learned to their despair that they were not.

The Toronto Sun reported “Police horses trample demonstrators at Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa” (By Joe Warmington)

Turns out the lasting image of the Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill will not be bouncy castles but that of a woman with a walker being trampled by a police horse.

The violence the Prime Minister has expressed concern about during the three-week protest in Ottawa didn’t unfold until Justin Trudeau’s Emergencies Act police army was sent in to disperse the crowd.

The three major incidents Friday, under a form of martial law, were grotesque. Video of Toronto Police Mounted Unit officers charging into the crowd and at least one horse trampling multiple people — including an elderly woman with a walker — was disturbing.

But that was not the only troubling incident. Another saw a protester behind a police line repeatedly being smashed with an officer’s rifle.

And convoy organizer Benjamin Dichter also told the Toronto Sun “one of drivers had his truck windows smashed by Ottawa Police (with) guns drawn and (he was) dragged out of his vehicle by force.”


The Associated Press reported police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada’s besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions.

By evening, at least 100 people had been arrested, mostly on mischief charges, and nearly two dozen vehicles had been towed, including all of those blocking one of the city’s major streets, authorities said. One officer had a minor injury, but no protesters were hurt, interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell said.

Those arrested included four protest leaders. One received bail while the others remained jailed.

The crackdown on the self-styled Freedom Convoy began in the morning, when hundreds of police, some in riot gear and some carrying automatic weapons, descended into the protest zone and began leading demonstrators away in handcuffs through the snowy streets as holdout truckers blared their horns.

Tow truck operators — wearing neon-green ski masks, with their companies’ decals taped over on their trucks to conceal their identities — arrived under police escort and started removing the hundreds of big rigs, campers and other vehicles parked shoulder-to-shoulder near Parliament. Police smashed through the door of at least one RV camper before hauling it away.

Many protesters stood their ground in the face of one of the biggest police enforcement actions in Canada’s history, with officers drawn from around the country.

The biggest border blockade, at the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, disrupted the flow of auto parts between the two countries and forced the industry to curtail production. Authorities lifted the siege last weekend after arresting dozens of protesters.

The final border blockade, in Manitoba, across from North Dakota, ended peacefully on Wednesday.


The regrettable events in Canada seemed disturbingly in sync with other events around the world which included:

• Ukraine forces bombed cities in its breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk illustrating the embarrassing lies told by the United States that Russia was about to invade this area when in fact the U.S.-backed Ukrainian forces had already invaded the same area.

• A situation similar to Canada’s entered its ninth day in New Zealand as protesters ignored government orders to move their vehicles away from the capital and brought in armored vehicles amid threats to seize vehicles belonging to those protesting that nation’s strict vaccine mandates.

The accelerating events of government repression seemed to authenticate widespread worries that freedom was disappearing everywhere in a tidal wave of corporate tyranny rapidly erasing individual rights that had previously been well established and taken for granted.

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John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, constantly trying to figure out why we are destroying ourselves, and pinpointing a corrupt belief system as the engine of our demise. Solely dependent on contributions from readers, please support his work by mail: 6871 Willow Creek Circle #103, North Port FL 34287 USA.

Freedom Convoy Protesters About To Get Arrested En Masse

Freedom Convoy Protesters About To Get Arrested En Masse

by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Feb 17, 2022

“You must leave the area now,” reads the notice. “Anyone blocking streets, or assisting others in the blocking [of] streets, are committing a criminal offence and you may be arrested,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

The notice is an escalation of law-enforcement efforts as the protest against vaccine mandates and social restrictions enters its 20th day. The move comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers this week aimed at ending the demonstrations. 


Ottawa police, in its notice, said that with the new powers made available under the federal emergency order, it is now illegal for new protesters or their supporters to enter downtown Ottawa and join the demonstration. Police also said drivers’ licenses could be revoked, per a separate emergency order from the province of Ontario. -WSJ


Earlier in the day we noted that 13 demonstrators involved in an ‘Coutts blockade’ were arrested, however today’s order is officially warning of mass arrests.

“I think this caught everyone off guard last night when it was released,” said Purpose Investments Inc. CIO Greg Taylor on Bloomberg TV. “There’s a lot of questions right now in figuring out who we’re targeting, what do we have to look at.”

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[Editor’s Note: The following article by Ethan Huff of Uncanceled News should tell most folks with functioning brain that those who’ve orchestrated this unprecedented attack upon the human family are, by all standards of normal behaviour, INSANE and need to be stopped as soon as possible. (Also note that due to legal restrictions imposed upon me by the Supreme Court of BC I cannot post any urls to the sites and citations that may appear in either of these articles).

One of the worse crazies on the planet at this moment of course is Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has sold out his country to the NWO robber barons for the standard 30 pieces of silver and is hell-bent on fulfilling his commitment to Mephistophes whether Canadians like it or not.

Here is what Ethan Huff has to say today about all the triple “vaccinated” deaths that have skyrocketed 495% in January of 2022 and that 80% of all new covid cases have been fully jabbed.

“The plandemic of the “fully vaccinated” rages on as the latest data shows that the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) are occurring in people who took the jabs.


Public Health Scotland (PHS) is reporting that an astounding four out of every five covid hospitalizations and deaths are jabbed, meaning only 20 percent of hospitalizations and deaths blamed on covid are occurring in the unvaccinated.


According to the figures, cases were down overall in February compared to January. However, the bulk is still comprised of fully vaccinated individuals, including the triple-vaccinated.


The data shows that the latest “wave” of negative health outcomes is occurring in three-pricked people, a demographic in which the death rate soared by 495 percent in the month of January.
“Overall cases have dropped in the last month in all demographics significantly compared to the number of cases recorded between 11th Dec and 7th Jan 22, but in both months the vaccinated have accounted for the vast majority of cases,” reported the Daily Exposé.


“The main difference between the two months is that the double vaccinated accounted for the majority of cases between 11th Dec and 8th Jan 22; recording 145,890 cases, but the triple vaccinated accounted for the majority of cases between 8th Jan and 4th Feb 22; recording 46,951 cases.”


The plandemic would already be over were it not for the “vaccines”


It turns out that the case rate is dropping substantially among the unvaccinated while it continues to rise among the fully vaccinated, and especially among the fully-fully vaccinated who are getting three shots or more.


Between December 11 and January 7, the non-jabbed population accounted for just 15 percent of all new cases of the Fauci Flu. One month later from January 8 through February 4, that percentage dropped to less than 13 percent.


Meanwhile, the vaccinated population accounted for 85 percent of all new cases between December 11 and January 7, with just 9 percent of those cases occurring in the one-dose vaccinated. (Related: Cases of covid among the fully vaccinated in Taiwan are also way, way up.)


Thirty-two percent of all new cases in the vaccinated category occurred in the triple vaccinated while 59 percent occurred in the double vaccinated.


“But fast forward one month and we find that the vaccinated accounted for 87% of cases, with the one-dose vaccinated accounting for 4% of those cases, the double vaccinated accounting for 33% of those cases, and the triple vaccinated accounting for 63% of those cases,” the Exposé further reported.


“This means that despite cases falling among all demographics they actually fell the most among the not vaccinated, single vaccinated, and double vaccinated, with the lowest drop coming in the triple vaccinated. This doesn’t make sense if the Covid-19 vaccines are effective. Clearly they are not, at least when it comes to preventing infection.”


As for hospitalizations, the unvaccinated are doing better and better overall while the fully vaccinated are doing worse and worse overall.


The PHS data shows that hospitalizations among the unvaccinated fell by -24 percent in January compared to in December. Hospitalizations among the triple vaccinated, meanwhile, increased by an astounding 88 percent.


“The vaccinated population accounted for 75% of hospitalisations between 11th Dec and 7th Jan 22, with 7% of those hospitalisations among the one-dose vaccinated, 46% of those hospitalisations among the triple vaccinated, and 47% of those hospitalisations among the double vaccinated,” the Exposé further reported.


“But fast forward one month and we find that the vaccinated accounted for 80.5% of hospitalisations, with the one-dose vaccinated accounting for 6% of those hospitalisations, the double vaccinated accounting for 26% of those hospitalisations, and the triple vaccinated accounting for 68% of those hospitalisations.””


This originally appeared on Uncanceled News.

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Canco Quesnel Supports Freedom Convoy 2022

Editor’s Note: While covering the Quesnel Freedom Convoy on January 29th, 2022 I was most pleased to see the community spirit and support exhibited by Quesnel’s newest gas station and convenience store on 2 Mile Flat – Canco. When I passed by the long line of trucks and other vehicles going past Canco I observed the Owner/Manager Gill Singh running along Hwy 97 from vehicle to vehicle faster than Chester himself passing out cartons of their yummy Chester’s Chicken to the convoy participants.

It’s this type of support and patriotic concern for Canada and for our freedom as a nation by local businesses that make people stop and think about the actions of our governments and the depth of despair and unrest that have been created over the past 2 years of mandates, lockdowns, masks and forced “vaccines”.

It therefore behooves each and every one of us who believes in freedom and democracy to make a special effort to support any business who has the courage and foresight to stand up for their nation. So if you’re passing by Canco check your fuel gauge and your appetite and if either of them require filling up then please stop and support those who support the truckers and all that they stand for.

Quesnel Freedom Convoy on 2 Mile Flat heading south toward Kersley. Canco is on the right.
Supporters in Canco parking lot cheer on the convoy.

Also don’t forget to visit the site on Facebook.

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Dr. Hoffe & Dr. Malthouse Speaking in Quesnel January 15, 2022

[UPDATE: (Thurs. Jan 6 11:47 PM) A number of people have replied to an email send out stating that the url to this story is malfunctioning. I’m still trying to figure out what the problem is. More importantly though the Cariboo Sentinel received the following email from Dr. Hoffe:

Dear Arthur,
Unfortunately, for personal reasons, I have needed to stand down from the northern section of our doctor’s speaking tour. So unfortunately I will not be coming to Quesnel.
Thank you for your part and our fight for freedom and truth.
Kindest regards,Charles
Charles Hoffe MD

hoffe.charles@gmail.com
+1-778-538-2183

I will continue to post further information on whether Dr. Malthouse will be on the tour when I find out out.]

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[Editor’s Note: Upcoming candidate for Mayor of Quesnel in 2022 Tami Viktil has announced on her fb group Rise Up Quesnel that Dr. Hoffe and Dr. Malhouse, who are currently on a Speaking Tour, will be coming to Quesnel on Saturday, January 15th, 2022 to speak on issues related to BC’s Vaccination program.

The location for the Medical Information Session will be announced as soon as a venue is confirmed. I will post the location here on the site when it has been established. Please share this post with as many of your friends and relatives and associates as you can. Thanks]

Why Did President Trump Push The Poison Jab?

[Editor’s Note: For many people, myself included, when President Trump announced to the U.S.A. that they ought to take the jab their reaction was “What the F***!!!???” It certainly didn’t endear Trump to all those who’d already twigged onto the fact that the jab was a killer in disguise. Clif High, an old radical truth revealer from way back, offers his viewers a different interpretation of that event plus a lot of other info on the jab itself and other remedies and cures plus a general overview of what the hell he thinks is really going on during these turbulent and trying times and what to expect in the coming months of 2022.]

The Genociding of Australians

[***Editor’s Note: Australia is under direct attack as I write these words. The N.W.O. psychopathic killers are hell-bent on murdering the aboriginal peoples (and the rest of the non-aboriginals as well) and the people are calling out (screaming might be a more apt way of putting it) to the rest of the world to DO SOMETHING to help stop these Stalinoid attacks upon them. The country was tricked with a false flag event (the infamous Port Arthur Massacre) back in the 90’s and they foolishly turned in all their weapons to the government thus leaving them in perpetual danger. That danger has now manifested BIG TIME in the form of the “Covid-19 Bio-weapon Scamdemic” which the Australian government is using to the max in order to fulfil their Gates/Fauci W.H.O. ‘mandate’ to depopulate the planet and take over all territories not presently under the globalist’s control. This video needs to be shared and shared and shared along with any and all the other information contained in it.

In the recent past we’ve watched this process unfolding in Gaza and at one point an international effort took place to stop the genociding of the Palestinian people by these same megalomaniacal low life sadistic maniacs. Now they’re starting it all over again in Australia and if they’re successful every other nation in the world who’s under the heel of criminal cartel behind all of this will be treated in the same manner. We MUST rise up and DO something while we still can and Australia is the place to begin.]