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Canada's Emergency Act · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi Jay film here and you are listening to the slippery slope
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  and I thank you for listening to the slippery slope.
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  So I want to get straight into what's happening in Canada.
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  Absolutely blows my mind. I'll go from a report from
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  Reuters as saying. In fact box, it says Canada's
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  emergency act and how will its squeeze funding of the trucker
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  protests So on February the 14th, Canadian Prime Minister
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  Justin Trudeau on Monday. Invoked rarely used special
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  measures to end protests that are shut down some borders, some
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  border crossings and paralyzed downtown Ottawa.
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  He said he would invoke the emergencies act to deal with the
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  freedom. Convoy protests started on
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  January 28, by Canadian truckers opposing a vaccine or quarantine
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  mandate for cross-border drivers.
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  They have turned into a rallying point for people opposed to a
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  range of Trudeau's policies. Including covid-19, pandemic,
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  restrictions and a carbon tax. So the demonstrations shut a
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  main economic Corridor between Canada and the United States for
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  six days before it was reopened and Sunday.
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  So it goes into what actually the emergencies Act is and the
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  ACT gives the government temporary Powers.
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  It does not normally have such as the power to impose Is
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  special restrictions on public assembly and travel.
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  See any. So now, these powers that they
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  don't normally have to impose special restrictions on public
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  Ascent assembly. That's, that's the talk about a
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  slippery slope. You're going into dangerous
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  territory. When you give the government
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  back on Powers goes on to say into and to mobilize Federal
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  support for local and Provincial Police.
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  It goes on further to say, A declaration of a Public Welfare
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  Emergency allows the government to regulate the distribution of
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  essential Goods. Decide what are essential
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  services, and impose fines on violations of the act.
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  It sets out a compensation scheme for those who suffer
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  damages as a result of its application.
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  I'm really sure I was going to say, I'm not sure but I
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  definitely believe the government shouldn't be
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  deciding. What is essential Goods for the
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  people, essential services, and then imposing an imposing fines?
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  Wow, I'm going to keep going, but this next section, please
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  listen, very carefully. I think this is probably one of
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  the most scariest, the scariest rules with these emergency
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  Powers. It says that Banks and financial
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  institutions will be able to temporarily freeze the accounts
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  of those suspected. Added of supporting the
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  blockades without obtaining, a court order.
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  So Banks. Wow, that's, that's just I don't
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  even know how to describe that. How can a bank or financial
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  institution make that decision to freeze your own money?
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  Freeze accounts, if you in some way of supported the blockades
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  and without obtaining, a court order, how can that be?
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  But how can that power be given to a bank or financial
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  institution, or how can the government decide that they can
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  freeze your money? It gives all the power to the
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  government, to freeze your money.
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  The insurance. That goes on the side, the
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  insurance on vehicles being used in the protests can also be
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  suspended. So they're really just taking
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  away all of your right to protest.
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  They are really shutting down. Any free speech.
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  Anything that they do not want said they're completely clamping
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  it down. Goes on in the article to say
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  that all crowdfunding platforms and payment providers.
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  As they use must register with Canada's anti-money, laundering
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  agency, fin track, and report suspicious activity, effective
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  immediately. Now, I read another report.
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  How was it that GoFundMe? I think it is they'd, you know,
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  they didn't want to, although they were keeping the money that
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  was given to the to the truck drivers in Aid of this rally.
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  And then after some pressure, then they decided to give the
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  money back. But they didn't want to support
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  this. Obviously, they support black
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  lives matter, you know, they'll always support that they'll
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  always support the riding in the streets and other places.
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  However, there wouldn't support people who are protesting
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  against the vaccine mandates, never know.
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  Anyway, however, it was a Christian company.
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  What I read a Christian crowdfunding company that had
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  taken on this role of helping with the crowdfunding, and isn't
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  it funny that this is now who the Canadian?
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  Mint is attacking with these crowdfunding platforms and, you
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  know, I'll keep going on. So the ACT will broaden the
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  scope of the government's anti monitoring anti-money laundering
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  and terrorist financing rules. It's strange how they lump all
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  this in with terrorism. Okay.
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  The the changes are being introduced because crowdfunding
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  platforms are being used to support in illegal activities.
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  The government said, well it depends, it's what the
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  government is. Just activities that the
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  government doesn't want to happen.
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  Doesn't necessarily mean it's illegal.
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  The emergency measures would also allow the government to
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  order towing companies to provide their services to clear
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  blockades, Trudeau said, the measures would be
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  geographically, specific and targeted only To where they are
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  needed. There will also be time limited
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  where I seriously my mind is blown with the use with the
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  extensive powers in this emergency Act and the Very fact
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  that the government would use this against their own people,
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  instead of sitting down and listening to their concerns and
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  why, and taking note of why they're protesting, they would
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  rather bring in these these dictator Style, Emergency
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  powers. It's outrageous.
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  So this article goes on to explain what the history of the
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  emergency Act is, and it says, it's previously known as the war
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  measures act. The emergency act has been used,
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  only three-time three times in Canadian history.
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  So during the, to First during the two world wars and in 1970
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  by Trudeau's father, who's the late prime minister Pierre
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  Trudeau after militant kubek separatists kidnapped, At a
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  British Diplomat and of and a provincial cabinet minister.
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  So Justin Trudeau considered using the act at the start of
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  the pandemic and what was his justification for that it goes
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  on to say that the Canadian Parliament has to approve, the
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  use of the ACT within seven days of the government invoking.
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  The emergency powers and Parliament.
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  Also has the power to revoke its approval So, just a couple of
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  thoughts here. I cannot like I said, this, this
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  just blows my mind that they would that the Canadian
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  government. This Western supposedly
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  democratic government, would use these kinds of powers on its own
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  people like this, the fact that it gives powers to restrict
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  public assembly and also travel, and the fact that it gives the
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  government the power over over citizens, fine.
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  Nance has to be able to freeze their accounts on suspicion.
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  On a suspicion of supporting the blockades suspicion of
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  supporting these truck drivers who would who would dare protest
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  the freedom Convoy mean, how dare they protest and how dare
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  you support this protest? We are now going to freeze your
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  money. The money that you have in your
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  bank, we are going to freeze it and you can't buy anything.
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  Keep saying, we need to keep making our politicians
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  accountable, we need to keep them accountable and of the
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  preview Canada. This is not good, not good, for
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  a supposedly Democratic Nation. That's my opinion.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.