“Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it. The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,” Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”
h/t Watcher
Link broken.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelans-regret-gun-prohibition-we-could-have-defended-ourselves
This story?
Are “Saskalbertans” any better armed ? Got ammo ? How much ?
Why do you think it can’t happen in Canada ?
Globalist tyrants prefer powerless serfs.
When they make our fire arms illegal Remember There are 10,000 of We The People to every cop in the major cities. If this really starts in Ontario or across the entire nation, the politicians, their families and the cops families are all high value valid targets of opportunity. They will lose on numbers alone.
JDI, We might outnumber them, but THEY are organized. We would act alone, one “lone gunman” at a time, gunned down by the brave and noble police force SWAT teams. Each of our corpses would be shot to pieces,we’d be buried looking like a Swiss cheese. Suggest to some of your fellows that we mount an armed resistance if they ever decide to disarm us, you’ll probably be arrested when one of your so-called friends turns you in, for fear that upsetting the status quo might affect his pension.
For a revolution to succeed, you have to have a leader, same as any other political movement. The Chinese were lucky, they had a Mao tse Tung, we have…………um………….Andrew Scheer.
I always get a “kick” out of angry conservatives and their cries for Revolution!!, but they really don’t mean it, because they are too hidebound by The Rules that have been drummed into their heads since pre-school, obey the law, obey the government, obey the police,obey the……………….obey, obey, obey…………..
Armed revolution means killing, lots of it, and execution of the enemy in massive numbers. It means absolute ruthlessness and elimination of the enemy, not a tea party and debate. We are just not up to it. We are better off to just acquiesce to whatever the government wants, and bitch about it on forums like this.
We are NOT the 1950’s Vietnamese.
You nailed it.
Our firearms are already illegal. Simple possession is a crime. The law-abiding can have a license to be in breach of the relevant law. The bureaucracy has authority to revoke these licenses any time for any reason it cares to make up and to prohibit any particular firearm at any time for any reason it cares to make up. This will be done gradually – how will you or I or anyone else decide it’s time to risk life and liberty to defy them when they come for us by increments?
I prefer Albertchewan.
Ridding our communities of gang violence is hard. It takes honesty, intelligence and dedication, three qualities seemingly lacking from our Liberal government.
Statistically, murder with firearms has risen over the last couple of years. Statistics Canada, in its Homicide in Canada, 2017[i] report, confirmed British Columbia gangs are responsible for much of that rise, primarily in Abbotsford, Surrey and Vancouver.
“With 2.45 homicides per 100,000 population, the homicide rate in British Columbia was up 32%, making it the province’s highest rate since 2009. This increase occurred in both urban and rural areas and can be partly explained by more gang- and firearm-related homicides,” the report says.
One of British Columbia’s most effective gang interdiction programs is Abbotsford’s In It Together, whose mission is to disrupt and interrupt the flow of young people into organized crime or gangs.
They successfully diverted over 1,500 young people out of violent criminal gangs – a success by all measurable standards.
Yet Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale refused to renew funding for In It Together, despite its obvious success.
Instead: “The federal government is considering further restrictions on handguns but will stop short of an absolute ban, as the cost to buy back legally owned handguns is pegged as high as $2 billion,” writes quasi-journalist Tonda MacCharles.[ii]
The government is happy to dole out billions of Canadian taxpayer dollars to dubious causes around the globe, but it cringes at the thought of paying lawful, licensed Canadian firearm owners for property seized (stolen) by the government.
MacCharles reports the Trudeau government “doubts that a ban will have the desired effect, according to the insider with knowledge of the file.”
So they’re floating another, equally ineffective measure – central storage of firearms.
Forcing licensed gun owners to store their firearms in central repositories will also fail to stop gang violence, but it won’t cost $2 billion in compensation.
Instead, it will put thousands of pistols and restricted/prohibited long guns into a building at a shooting range – out in the middle of nowhere – because that’s where shooting ranges mostly are. They’ll put a security guard at the door during open hours to make sure the people who pick up their firearms are really licensed gun owners.
What could go wrong?
No gang would ever think of breaking into such a building, would they? They would never hurt or force a security guard to open the vaults, right? They would never lay in wait at such a facility for firearm owners who would be picking up or dropping off their firearms and ammunition, would they?
What could go wrong, indeed?
That the government might even muse about making a bad-guy gun supermarket shows how desperately out of touch this government truly is.
The protection of our firearms from theft lies in anonymity, not storage in some government inspected facility. Criminals can – and will – steal anything. But right now, they don’t know where the guns are.
But our federal government wants to tell them.
This is easily the dumbest idea this government has come up with, and they have reaped a bumper crop of dumb ideas in their first three years.
Let’s make no mistake.
This is not about public safety.
This was never about public safety.
This is and always was, about votes.
It’s cheap political theatre to try and keep Liberal MPs elected. It is not intended to stop gang violence or keep Canadians safe.
Sources
[i] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/181121/dq181121a-eng.htm
[ii] https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2018/12/06/ottawa-considers-gun-control-options-with-a-handgun-ban-seen-as-costly-and-possibly-ineffective.html
Liberals Opt for Political Theatre, Not Public Safety,
Damned good comment,Sir,and spot on!
My dad was born in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution. Some of the family got out of Russia after the revolution and moved to Canada. Given the events that he witnessed in Russia, my dad would often say “when the government tells you to register your guns, oil them up, wrap them in plastic and bury them in the back yard”.
Ditto here. My late father-in-law could the Militz and Cheka police going from house to house in the villages around 1920.
Banning firearms always has an ulterior motive.
I thought you might have….the “Kulak” gave it away!
“Banning firearms always has an ulterior motive.”
Amen. Gun control isn’t about guns, it is about control.
TheGunBlog.ca — Edward Burlew, a leading Canadian firearm lawyer, said any new gun bans by the government would mean it had lost confidence in the federal police’s ability to manage gun safety.
He made the comment in a series of points by e-mail on Dec. 9 after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police published its 2017 Commissioner of Firearms report.
Context
The RCMP manages gun licensing and registration for 2.2 million hunters, farmers, recreational shooters and competitors, including about 600,000 men and women with licences to own handguns, AR-15 rifles and other so-called “Restricted” firearms.
The government is examining a “full ban” on handguns and certain other guns. It’s also planning Bill C-71 as a new law to increase prohibitions and restrictions on federally licensed gun owners.
Burlew, who has defended Ian Thomson and more than 700 other gun owners in courts across Canada in the past 20 years, sent the letter to:
Andrew Scheer, the leader of the opposition Conservative Party of Canada
Dennis Young, a gun-rights advocate and independent firearm researcher
Tony Bernardo, the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association
more than two dozen members of parliament and senators
Young shared the e-mail with TheGunBlog.ca with Burlew’s permission and published the letter on his website yesterday.
Burlew, who is based near Toronto, gave TheGunBlog.ca permission to publish the e-mail. It has been lightly edited.
E-mailed Letter by Edward Burlew
From: Edward Burlew
To: Andrew Scheer, Dennis Young, Tony Bernardo
Cc. More than 2 dozen members of parliament and senators
Date: 09 December 2018
Subject: 2017 RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Report and an Overlooked Issue
Point One
Among the several hundred thousand trained, licensed handgun and “Restricted” rifle owners are tens of thousands of presently employed police and armed forces members and tens of thousands of retired police and armed forces veterans.
These are the men and women we Canadians have trust in to protect us. We arm them and train them to protect our lives and our rights.
These honoured individuals do not become irresponsible dangers to the safety of Canada when they go home or leave the forces. They have a mindset that is now as good as hardwired to protect Canadians.
Yet their handguns and “Restricted” and even “Prohibited” rifles will be confiscated?
Ridiculous.
Why are we missing this point? Why is nothing said?
Point Two
The ban would mean that the RCMP has been negligent and inadequate in providing training and vetting of the hundreds of thousands of presently licensed owners of registered handguns and “Restricted” and “Prohibited” rifles. This is a terrible black mark on the reputation of the RCMP.
In plain words “Parliament has lost confidence in the RCMP’s ability to manage the firearms safety of Canada.”
If this danger is “real” and present, the RCMP should “Act Now.” The RCMP must begin confiscation today.
Point Three
The confiscation has been going on for years. Yes, decades.
In the Criminal Code there are specific provisions in Sections 111 and 117. The police are today empowered to enter any place of a person who is unsafe and a threat of violence to themselves or others and search for and take their firearms, ammo, explosives and crossbows, with or without a warrant. Under Section 111 this can be done to anyone who is not even a gun owner. Actually, Section 117 does not require the person being searched and against whom the prohibition order is sought to be a gun owner.
This is used daily.
I have represented at least 100 licensed gun owners in these hearings. In fact I represented 20 so far this year. I have a two-day hearing set his week on one, and five pending with trial dates.
This tool is used, yet ignored in the political discussion.
The police can right now remove the guns from licensed and unlicensed individuals who are thought to be a risk of danger to themselves and others.
Bill C-71 strengthens this power immensely by removing the five-year historic perspective [for background checks].
Point Four
The RCMP and the Chief Firearms Officers (CFO) can right now revoke the licences of those licensed individuals who are thought to be unsafe and thus ineligible to continue to own or possess firearms.
This too will be stronger under C-71.
I have many many clients and others who are presently under licence review by the CFO. This means the CFO investigates and then revokes the licence if the person is a danger to him/her self or others. This can be done by a letter from the CFO.
Can You understand? A SIMPLE LETTER!
So easy.
No need for political debate, no grandstanding for votes.
The Prime Minister can just mandate to the RCMP who run the CFO offices (The CFO is the office who actually approves and issues the firearms licence.) to revoke all the licences of the owners of “Restricted” and “Prohibited” handguns and rifles today. Based on the evidence that their continued possession of the weapons constitutes a present and real danger to Canada.
That means that One letter of mandate by the Prime Minister where that mandate is supported by consistent, verifiable and reliable facts and evidence and several hundred thousand letters of revocation of licences by the CFOs of every Province and Territory can solve the evidence-based safety issue.
Yet why is this not done?
I hope I have raised questions for your consideration.
Who Am I?
I am the specialist lawyer who has defended over 700 licensed firearms owners in courts across Canada since I started counting in 1998.
I have practised law 40 years. I can practice law in all provinces and territories of Canada.
I am open to being contacted further on any of these salient issues.
Thank You.
Edward L. Burlew, LL.B.
Barrister & Solicitor
Thornhill, Ontario
For what it is worth, I lost trust in the RCMP after High River.
I was aghast when I heard about that. My faith in not just the Mounties but the country in general took a beating.
Yes,Ken. I lost trust in the RCMP after the Dziekanski murder, High River only exacerbated the feeling.
That is also when I realized that Stephen Harper had become completely “Ottawashed” as he failed to hold a commission of inquiry as he should have done. I suspect it is because the finger of justice would have pointed right at some high ranking Cabinet members in the government of Alberta.
“Yes,Ken. I lost trust in the RCMP after the Dziekanski murder, High River only exacerbated the feeling.”
Re Cold blooded murder of Dziekanski: Yep, pretty much my sentiments. They all lied in perfect harmony with complete contempt for the law they were suppose to enforce. Their superiors had clear knowledge they lied and kept pretending there was legitimacy to that charade. All that while law and order morons kept pretending the JBTs were the good guys,… kept pretending that urine was rain… It was about then when I lost what was left of my trust. Following experiences only reinforced that sentiment.
Yup….and a great reason for Alberta and Saskatchewan to boot the RCMP out and have a prairie police force. That way, they answer to us and not to some clown in Ottawa.
“have a prairie police force.”
Yay they will be just OPP, look up Caledonia when you have a chance.
is that the rcmp which recently had a SUCCESSFUL $100,000,000 class action suit against them
*by their own personnel* for SEXUAL harassment:
https://rubinthomlinson.com/know-dont-know-sexual-harassment-class-action-settlement/
and *another one* soon after TEN TIMES BIGGER:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-merlo-davidson-settlement-money-1.4905758
get that? THOUSANDS of SEXUAL OFFENDERS in that organization. thousands of them. all pd by the taxpayer eh?
anybody seen a ‘cops are tops’ bumper sticker lately?
I always knew this pointless exercise was pointless, but holy carp. I had no idea the extreme level of that pointlessness under existing legislation.
As an aside, sure looks like police-state legislation to me.
Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to the Burlew email.
Merry Christmas
Yeap…and if you ever fly over a mega city, take a look out the window, what does it look like? To me, I see them as a sort of cancer, or virus eating away at the organic tissue of the host (Earth). The biological analogy is hard to not see. But it is what it is, for better or for worse, this is where “civilisation” is heading.
City people are definitely more easily herded, controlled and scared than people in the boonies. I’ve observed that if one becomes too disconnected from nature, one loses important elements in life. City life is just too artificial. And from a historical perspective, it is.
Only the last 2 or 3 generations of the entire history of mankind grew up in mega-cities! So its something very new.
Also
As a transplant from Toronto to the boonies long ago, I’ve noticed that we provide all the food, power, waste disposal, and excess taxes it takes to keep the cities alive, while they export their pollution, laws that should only apply to dense populations, crime, and…tax after tax to fund their fake sustainability – while using projection to claim they are more efficient, more cultured and so on. We don’t see it that way (vast understatement).
Just as a slave-master would behave toward the slaves. Only we country folk are perhaps a little tougher to enslave over the long term. Our tolerance has been misapprehended as willingness to be subjugated.
And it’s very nearly at its end. We know who can do without who, and I think we easily win that little scuffle.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoRprPRWsAA4y_K?format=jpg
“The problem from the beginning and still now is that there are too many people in Venezuela who are lawless. Crime is a way of living.”
Exactly. No country in the Americas ever had a gun problem. They had an Indian problem and a Negro problem—problems that elites whose wealth depended on cheap labour simply refused to deal with until it was too late.
Cuba has just about held together because the Castro brothers were white. The beginning of the end in Venezuela was when an Indian gang led by Chavez turned on their white masters.
Lawless happens when there’s nothing to eat and the people were disarmed long ago but easy for you to leave that out and just blame the people for crimes what about all the governmental, police, elitist and banker crimes there and here oh that’s right it’s the Peoples fault look at us here in Canada we had only the same two political parties in power here the liberals and PC and both have destroyed our great nation and if we don’t fight to take it back we all lose.
Let´s make this clear. Since the beginning of the takeover, when everyone was charmed by the Uncle Hugo´s charisma, without any clue about what was going on under the table (things like Alejandro Andrade being in charge of the National Treasury, ”assigned” personally by Hugo), this was the plan. The subjugation of any private initiative in the financial world.
“The state must control everything” is the communist motto in Venezuela.
The “empire” (sounds familiar?) is ready to “attack us” because they “need our resources”.
Funny. Those stealing our gold and coltan are Russia, China and Turkey. I can´t see any other nation around.
But controlling 20 million persons without any popularity, regardless of the number of armed soldiers, is not an easy task. After controlling access to food, medicines and some other basic life necessities, the following is to seize the ability of people to dispose of their money as they please.
By doing so, they increase as much as their control level, as the stress on the people they need to distract. And this stress is exactly what they want.
By controlling the amount of who transfers to whom, when and where…well, they could use to put in prison ANYONE THEY WANT. As a matter of fact, the reason they don’t do it just because they don’t have the facilities to lock down so many people. But the attempts to convert the country into a police state just like East Germany is there.
The recent creation of the Migratory Police is just another indication. The worst thing is, that it is going to be a tropical version, with the consequent favoring of the criminals, and the repression and harassing of regular, decent citizens who are exposed to being kidnapped or stolen.
Upon controlling the money flow, they could strangle any entity that is opposed to the totalitarian state. Of course, this is not a specialty of the communist world. This is known to happen in the western world too. Hollywood and Wall Street are no exceptions. At this point in our lives, we all should be aware of what seems to be happening beneath the surface.
Here’s how they justify blocking the bank accounts.
Of course, they justify blocking the bank accounts, especially in the state-owned banking institutions, because they say they are “fighting terrorism”.
Once the account is blocked, they will ask for some proof that the money comes from a legal transaction. Of course, the evidence is subject to their criteria. If they suspect that the origin of the money is suspicious, they will seize it and the account holder will be sent to the…”authorities”.
I rather suspect that this is going to make the upcomming election rather interesting. It will result in violence, thats pretty much assured.
And when they have taken all your guns and left you defenseless with only tooth and claw, and the criminal element is still using guns, then they will decide you meaning those who did no crime have not done enough obviously. So then they will take your knives.
Best to fight for your rights now while you can.
Every year in every town in Canada but especially in Provincial Capitals all gun owners should turn out with rifle in hand and fire off a magazine into the air as a warning to all government thugs who has the power.
The reason for the show of force is to remind them, that the fighting spirit of Canada’s Dead Warriors has been passed on, and that you are not simple minded sheep.
Canadians have fought for nothing all my life, a bunch of spineless snowflakes.
The simplest thing we can do in Canada is to organize a 100,000 gun march on Parliament Hill. That’s the only way the government is going to understand that we mean business
Mr G, march???, I say bring the tractors , skid steers, large trucks, and other “tools”, and make that number 1 million. They, McTurd and crowd, don’t like it, use said tractors to push the parliament buildings into the river!!!!
LOL !!!
got that one right 666.
think of the money we would save skipping the touted upcoming renovations . . . .
https://globalnews.ca/news/4173454/parliament-hill-centre-block-renovations/
If there was a million person march on Parliament, would that stop Trudeau?
Of course not. He’d see it as an inconvenience for the day, and everything would return to normal tomorrow.
There are very few successful protests of this type in Canada, Clayoquot Sound being one of them.
All of the “Occupy” and anti nuke protests amounted to nothing as they were inconveniences. How many railways or highways did they block? None. None and to zero effect. They all got tired of sleeping on the street and went home. Would a complete railway and interprovincial highway blockage be enough?
If you want change for western Canadian, for the Right to Bear Arms, for interprovincial pipelines, to stop the idiocy of climate alarmism gone mad, separate and negotiate from the standpoint of BC being cut off from Old Canada, and from Quebec and the Maritimes being forever cut off from the western supplied welfare payments & equalization.
Separate, and then negotiate from a position of strength. Not from the current western position of weakness and a federal judiciary heavily weighted in the Ottawa – Quebec axis.
If you really wanted to make your presence felt, you would get your million people to Ottawa, and you would proceed to start burning down Rideau Hall, 24 Sussex, Parliament, and all the other federal properties you can locate.
If you actually want a new country, polite ain’t going to get you there. It is well past time for the tree of liberty to be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots. If you are not willing to admit that, then the fight is already over, and you lost.
“…, then the fight is already over, and you lost.”
Yes. The fight has been over for some time,and we lost.
Don’t vote for fascists
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Marc = it isn’t going to happen until after the next election that I believe the Liberals will win. Max nor Sheer are not the answer and their success would only delay what is presently happening. I really believe a liberal win is the only way to awaken people to act against this continued insanity. We have been in the pot for quite some time and the fire continues to get hotter. What do I mean? Well as a young man I was quite unpopular for speaking against the French language laws. Guns are not the only thing that can be seized without due process . Despite the scientific evidence you are impaired at .08 ,at .04 your car can be seized , your license suspended with no right to due process nor legal representation . There are many controls from marketing to entertainment to speech , a steady erosion of freedoms . And we cannot even blame it all on the Liberals .
What guns?
My identity must have been hacked……
There was this tragic boating accident…
And an avalanche……
I sold all my guns to Mike from Canmore.
All the politicians in Venezuela need to be hanged en mass.
Here in Canada we should just do that to 10%.
Call it a lottery.
They of course could resign first.
Just because so many stupid idiots get to vote doesn’t mean the government gets to take away property rights.
And before somebody tells me we don’t have property rights in Canada, I’ll tell you yes we do. We are born with it along with our liberty.
Not in Canada, Buddy. Not at all in Canada. Just because you THINK you were born with certain rights does not at all mean that you actually have them. In Canada there is NO right to property. None, Nada, Zip, Zero. Read the Constitutional documents before you start to blab. The Queen owns everything and you “own” it at her pleasure.
I have yet to see anyone conduct an effective protest in Canada; one that fundamentally changed anything. To do so would require sacrifice on the part of the individual and Canadians are not prepared to do away with anything that would make their own lives uncomfortable.
Might as well just enjoy the decline.
Well actually in Canada, the Supreme Court already ruled in 2004 in R. vs Kerr that every citizen does have certain rights. Those rights were granted by the Magna Carta. The SCOC even cited the Magna Carta in their majority ruling. A prison inmate Kerr used an illegal CONCEALED weapon to defend himself and in so doing. Killed a man.
The Crown threw the book at him, concealed weapon, illegal weapon, premeditated murder etc. The SCOC ruled in favor of Kerr.
Saying everyone has the right to self defense, as granted by the Magna Carta whether by an illegal weapon, or a concealed weapon and that it was not murder to kill an assailent in defense of yourself. Amazing how this was never used to strike down concealed carry laws or charges brought against those who defended themselves. It is right there in public records. The SCOC ruled that the Magna Carta is in full force and effect in Canada. Know what that means?
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because i can’t throw a rock 1155 feet per second…
“Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz said on Wednesday
two people had been killed in the attack and one was
left brain-dead. Twelve were wounded, six seriously.”
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There were property rights in Diefenbaker’s Canadian Bill of Rights (1960); why do you think it was so important for Trudeau to get rid of that particular piece of legislation? And everyone who went along with Trudeau to make that happen, they are your enemy.
Every judge who rules in accordance with it, is your enemy.
Every civil servant who works in accordance with it, is your enemy.
If Canadians did not have the right to own property, then there would be no Criminal Code offenses for theft and like crimes.
You missed my point. BORN with it. Governments don’t give rights. They don’t give you your freedom. That’s not blabbing, that’s fact. (As for the Queen, my friends and I mooned her when we were teenagers. Riverside Drive in Ottawa in the ’70’s.)
As for effective protest, you are absolutely right.
I am very comfortable, healthy, content. I will do nothing unless they cross my threshold.
JohnPeg, we only have “right to use” for property. You can’t move land, but you can move a right. Seen is done years ago on the road to my cottage. They just moved the hermits shack, and he had no recourse.
CBC radio, of all places, had a news article that Venezuelans with HIV have resorted to boiling tree leaves as there are no anti-retrovirus drugs to be had. At least for the common folk. The government used to give them away for free, provide free testing as well. Now they ain’t got nothing. What a mystery! Think any northern socialists can figure this out for us local yokels?
“Of the 79,000 HIV+ people registered to receive antiretrovirals from the public health care system, a shocking 87% are not getting them. What’s more, 15 of the 25 antiretroviral medicines that the government used to provide have been out of stock for more than nine months, the report noted, and medicine to treat infections are in short supply.
To make matters worse, another report by the Pan American Health Organization, UNAIDS and the Venezuelan Health Ministry says that newly identified HIV cases increased 24% between 2010 and 2016, and AIDS-related deaths by 38%. During this period, new HIV infections decreased by 18% and AIDS-related deaths by 34% worldwide, according to UNAIDS.”
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018/12/14/hiv-in-venezuela-migrate-or-die/
Any time a “progressive” starts talking about gun bans and mass shootings I point out that the largest mass shootings that ever occurred were at Babi Yar, possibly exceeded by the mass shootings at Odessa undertaken by agents of the state against unarmed civilians. That always gets a lot of “but, but . . .” but nothing. As Solzhenitsyn pointed out, in a slightly different scenario, it would have been a very different society had the agents of the Soviet state, prior to heading out for their knock-on-the-door-at-two-in-the-morning routine had had to kiss their loved ones goodbye knowing that they were unlikely to return unscathed or even return at all from their night’s work.
You get the government you vote for. Venusuala voted for this. Where’s my popcorn?
Successful socialism:
The number of Venezuelans fleeing their country’s economic and humanitarian crisis is expected to reach 5.3 million by the end of 2019 in what has become the largest exodus in modern Latin American history, the United Nations said Friday.
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/un-venezuela-exodus-likely-to-swell-to-5-3-million-in-2019
In her book, This Changes Everything,” she (Naomi Klein) argues that “only mass social movements can save us.” Mass social movements like Venezuela’s
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-ndp-ponders-adopting-naomi-kleins-great-leap-forward
Naomi Klein, retweeted approvingly on the 2013 death of Chavez: “Yes, the Venezuelan president could be a strongman. But he leaves behind what might be called the most democratic country in the Western Hemisphere.”
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-chavezs-canadian-fan-club-is-awfully-quiet-about-venezuelas-utter-meltdown
To semi-quote Naomi Klein “5.3 million refugees changes everything”
Some democracy! Some saving! Some success!
And the NDP (Singh, Horgan, Notley, Horwath, et al) and their labour union buddies like Jerry Dias, want to bring the “success” of Venezuela to Canada.