Canada's Truck Convoy to Protest Mandate

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luthervol said:
I understand your angle.
It's far more of a concern for you than it is for me.
People are stupid, I've reluctantly accepted that fact.
Stupid people will often have a stupid government.
But none of that changes the necessary role of government.
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That’s probably true. I imagine it does concern me more than it does you.

I just watched the situation devolve from “2 weeks to stop the spread” (which I supported) to the suspension of civil rights in a first world country.
 
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A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada | David Sacks

Last summer, I warned readers of Common Sense that financial deplatforming would be the next wave of online censorship. Big Tech companies like PayPal were already working with left-wing groups like the ADL and SPLC to define lists of individuals and groups who should be denied service. As more and more similarly minded tech companies followed suit (as happened with social media censorship), these deplorables would be deplatformed, debanked, and eventually denied access to the modern economy altogether, as punishment for their “unacceptable” views.

That prediction has become reality.
What I could not have anticipated is that it would occur first in our mild-mannered neighbor to the north, with the Canadian government itself directing the reprisals.

How do we stop this dystopian policy from taking root here in the United States? Some of my friends in the tech world say that decentralized blockchain and cryptocurrency offer an answer—and that might be true for pseudonymous computer programmers who can do gig work from anywhere in the world. But it won’t help truck drivers who operate in the real world under the supervision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The real answer lies in politics and the law. Policy makers need to build safeguards into our laws that protect citizens’ financial rights against some future emergency that would be used as the excuse to take them away. Just as University of Chicago professor Richard Epstein proposed that the largest social media companies should be treated as common carriers to prohibit them from restricting speech, we may need to prohibit the largest financial institutions from denying citizens access to the financial system because they dislike their politics. In order to prevent discrimination on the basis of creed, political beliefs may need to become a protected class.

We must also stop the definition creep around “terrorism,” a term whose use has become so elastic that it now even includes angry moms fighting school boards. Just this month, the Department of Homeland Security made a little-noticed change in its definition of domestic terrorism, citing “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19” as a key driver of what it deemed a heightened domestic terror threat environment. As we have seen for over 20 years, “terrorism” is the magic word by which any curtailment of rights and expansion of government power can be justified.

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85SugarVol said:
That’s probably true. I imagine it does concern me more than it does you.

I just watched the situation devolve from “2 weeks to stop the spread” (which I supported) to the suspension of civil rights in a first world country.
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Wait. When you put it that way... Does that include the suspension of the right for others to feed you?
 
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85SugarVol said:
That’s probably true. I imagine it does concern me more than it does you.

I just watched the situation devolve from “2 weeks to stop the spread” (which I supported) to the suspension of civil rights in a first world country.
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I have watched a lot of things devolve during that period. It's certainly not only governments which are cause for concern.
 
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hog88 said:
Didn't the parliament pass a law making some or most of the "Emergency Powers Act" permanent?
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Yes.

Well, they have said they want FINTRAC reporting for CrowdFunding, Payment Processors, & Crypto to be made permanent.

But I believe that has to pass an additional hurdle.
 
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But if they have the “votes” to impose Martial Law, I suppose they have the votes to re-write the law too?
 
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Yes.

Well, they have said they want FINTRAC reporting for CrowdFunding, Payment Processors, & Crypto to be made permanent.

But I believe that has to pass an additional hurdle.
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"As a result of multiple issues of backlash with severe consequence, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet are trying to save face, and yet walk away from the Emergency War Measures Act by revoking it before they faced the humiliation of a public defeat in the Canadian Senate. "
 
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Canada Unlocks ‘Vast Majority’ of Bank Accounts Frozen over Support for Trucker Convoy

Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance Isabelle Jacques told the Canadian parliament’s Finance Committee on Tuesday that up to 206 bank accounts linked to convoy organizers, together worth $7.8 million, were initially frozen under emergency measures enacted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week.

Truck Convoy Protest: Canada Unlocks 'Vast Majority' of Bank Accounts Frozen for Supporting Convoy | National Review
 
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Caculator said:
"As a result of multiple issues of backlash with severe consequence, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet are trying to save face, and yet walk away from the Emergency War Measures Act by revoking it before they faced the humiliation of a public defeat in the Canadian Senate. "
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Where is this quote from?
 
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Velo Vol said:
I didn't realize until recently that there's thousands of truck companies that come and go every year.
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Deal with the average trucker and you will understand why clearly.

The majority are 1 to 2 truck operators who think it’s as simple as getting a truck and driving.

Once they realize the cost and jump through the filings and acquire their MC number they are so in debt and over their heads that they start chasing any dollar possible. Some even try to be brokers and haulers at the same time and get in hot water fast.

99 percent don’t even make it 3 years and it’s a total waste of time to even deal with them.
 
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