As the grifter convoy 2022 gets closer to Ottawa, it is attracting more online attention from some unsavoury circles. Some of them have been calling for this to be Canada’s January 6th insurrection, which one might think would give some Conservative MPs pause, but nope. No denunciations have yet been forthcoming. Another group associated with the convoy, calling itself “Canadian Unity,” seems to think they can force the government to sign some kind of quasi-legalistic “Memorandum of Understanding” that would essentially force the all governments, federal, provincial and municipal, to rescind all public health measures and dissolve the government so that said group can rule by fiat. Erm, yeah, that’s not going to happen.
I tweeted earlier about Canada Unity's (CU) wacky Memorandum of Understanding, which basically demands that the Senate and Governor General (SCGGC) just override all federal, provincial, and municipal law. But there's more…https://t.co/MmYhI4rfXG
— Justin Ling (Has Left) (@Justin_Ling) January 26, 2022
I think we should be very careful about ascribing violent motives to this lot, or reporting that we've got an impending insurrection on our hands.
But we should also be paying attention to the fact that they expect to topple the government when they arrive.
— Justin Ling (Has Left) (@Justin_Ling) January 26, 2022
One of the organizers (who has the GoFundMe in her name) says she won’t tolerate extremist rhetoric associated with said grifter convoy, but yeah, good luck with that. And if things do turn violent, well, that could trigger anti-terrorism financing laws to everyone who donated to those GoFundMe accounts.
https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1486064285361086469
In fact, now that this has been made public (I've done a number of media hits on this today, so I know it's being covered), if the convoy / protest does turn violent, there's potentially a big problem for anyone who donated.
— JMDavis (@JessMarinDavis) January 25, 2022
Does Canada consider January 6th to have constituted terrorist activity? Well, it's cited as part of the listing of the Proud Boys, so I'm gonna go with YES. pic.twitter.com/p0hf7yzyva
— JMDavis (@JessMarinDavis) January 25, 2022
If you still want to support protesters, only give money to people you actually trust not to engage in violence. Even this is risky because if things do turn violent, they could get caught up in it.
— JMDavis (@JessMarinDavis) January 25, 2022
https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1485976603918315525
Oh, and the federal government isn’t budging on the vaccine mandate, and if they think a convoy like this will change the Americans’ minds for their own mandate, well, good luck with that delusion.
Good reads:
- The prime minister has tasked a committee of Cabinet ministers to draw up a new national cybersecurity plan in the wake of a number of cyber intrusion incidents.
- Marco Mendicino wants Twitter to enforce their own policies after Ontario MPP Randy Hillier called minister Omar Alghabra a “terrorist.”
- Mendicino is also planning to look into how the RCMP handles investigations in to sexual misconduct within its ranks.
- Pablo Rodriguez says the government is moving ahead with legislation to make digital giants pay for news.
- The government is withdrawing the families of diplomatic staff in Ukraine.
- The PBO calculated that it would take $1 billion to clean up the orphan wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan; actual experts say it’s going to be way, way more.
- As many as 93 possible graves were found at the site of a former residential school in Williams Lake, BC.
- Liberal MP George Chahal has agreed to a $500 fine in relation to the Commissioner of Elections’ finding around his taking a rival’s election flyer.
- Three Conservative riding associations are now calling for Erin O’Toole to face an early leadership review.
- Kady O’Malley’s Process Nerd column talks to parties about the plans to return to the Commons, and it sounds like it will largely be “virtual” again. Sigh.
- Economist Trevor Tombe explains the two main drivers of inflation right now.
- Susan Delacourt would like to see a system where vaccine refusers in Canada can ensure their doses can go to someone abroad.
- My column wonders why the Conservatives are always so quick to side with grifters, whether it’s this convoy, or any other culture war grift that rears its head.
Odds and ends:
This whole thread is worth your time. https://t.co/UaVviAeUut
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) January 25, 2022
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But on a lighter note, at least people have made up some funny twitter hashtags -#KarenConvoy and #FluTruxKlan
And it saddens me to see so many people apparently turning out to cheer these yahoos on as they travel across country — I also suspect there’s more organization here than there first appeared to be, with so many people apparently knowing exactly where and when the trucks would be passing.
Trump Jr and assorted wackadoos in the crime family’s orbit like Lin Wood and Michael Flynn’s brother were cheering it on too. Meanwhile, Theo Fleury went on the Tucker Carlson show demanding Trudeau’s resignation because freedumb. Time for a full and public inquiry into the CPC’s connections and coordinations with the treasonous GQP. And it’s time for a full public apology from, and numerous resignations by, the media hacks who called people TruAnons for demanding that they identify the Conservative movement in Canada as a threat to national security. For the umpteenth time, we can’t say this enough: Michael Wernick was a prophet.
Sorry, it was Laura Ingraham whose show he was on, not Tucker Carlson.
Potayto, potahto. (Wait, wasn’t Scheer recently tweeting about that?)