The trucking industry has been in freefall for close to 2 years now. Declining freight volumes show the economy is in recession, but that doesn’t fit the left’s narrative, so it isn’t reported by MSM. Alternative media the rescue once again.
This video is short and gives a clear picture of what is happening in the North American economy.
This will be the first in a multi-part series on what has happened with the Coutts trial, and the many, many questions which flow from it. As we all know, the mainstream media are not going to ask these questions, nor tell you the truth about what went on, because that is not their job, and the Canadian government is going to do everything they can to pretend like the last four years didn’t happen, and absolve themselves of any responsibility. WIth what’s going on in the UK, and the looming possibility of Bill C-63 passing in Canada, getting to the bottom of the conspiracy against the Coutts men is of grave import to rights Canadians hold dear, such as the right to freedom of expression, and to protest. – Gord Magill
Lawfare Comes to Canada as the Coutts Four Get Their Day in Court | Opinion
A trial is currently underway in Canada, and the rights of every Canadian citizen are at stake. Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert are facing farcical charges stemming from their participation in a peaceful protest against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s COVID-19 response. It turns out, the United States is not the only country where the ruling political establishment is using lawfare to test the limits of the freedoms we all once took for granted. Olienick and Carbert may be average working-class men, but their trial is comparable to that of President Trump’s many legal battles; as in the U.S., the Canadian court system has been turned into a crucible upon which elite warfare is being waged against the masses—or their duly elected representatives.
Olienick and Carbert are the remaining two of a group of political prisoners arrested in Canada and held without bail since the Freedom Convoy in 2022. The Freedom Convoy was a populist revolt against Trudeau’s authoritarian approach to COVID-19 in the form of a mass act of civil protest led by truck drivers. To combat this peaceful protest, the largest of its kind in Canadian history, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to suspend civil liberties across Canada, freezing bank accounts and laying numerous spurious charges against hundreds of peaceful protesters.
80 years to the day of the D-Day landings at Normandy, another battle begins in the fight against fascism for Canadian freedoms.
“Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
“It’s a shame that Dr. Perry isn’t putting her significant talents towards prosecuting those responsible for the biggest string of hate crimes in Canadian history – the burning of over 80 churches across the country in the wake of the residential school gravesite hoax. One can insinuate the real aims of a government by what it chooses to investigate and prosecute, or not, and by what its paid ‘advisors’ such as Perry choose to use their platforms for.
All of this is set against the backdrop of the ongoing infiltration of the Canadian government by the Chinese Communist Party, whom have been proven to have interfered in at least the last two elections, are alleged to have been operating here since at least the Mulroney administration, and in a report released this past Monday are shown to have had quite a bit of assistance in this endeavor by various homegrown actors within government. The word treason is now being used by many in Parliament who are demanding answers to what is going on with this interference.”
Gord Magill is a Canadian ex-patriot living in the United States. He writes for Newsweek and on his substack under Autonomous Truck(er)s. He has also been a guest on Tucker Carlson.
Debbie Dingell’s well rehearsed statement about Anthony Fauci, describing him as such a good man who just wants to help people, lead up to her question about the “credible death threats” Fauci and his family received, was a sad attempt to martyr Fauci in a way most narcissists only dream about.
Note : for those new to this Substack and whom are unfamiliar with these cases, a list of links to previous articles + podcasts will be provided at the bottom.
For those of my readers who are here for commentary on the trucking industry – I didn’t intend for this Substack to become a blog reporting on the vindictive war against the working class perpetrated by the worst rulers in the history of humanity, but here we are. I’ll get back to trucking eventually.
Earlier this week, a jury in Lethbridge, Alberta, found Marco Van Huigenbos, George Janzen, and Alex Van Herk, guilty of ‘Mischief’. If you went online and witnessed the near universal conflation of their case with that of Chris Carbert and Tony Olienick, still held in ‘remand’ as the two remaining of the Coutts Four, one might come away feeling that the parties guilty of mischief are the government and the media, whose campaigns of disinformation, omission, and silence, have lead to the rampant confusion.
The prosecution of Mr Van Huigenbos, Mr Van Herk, and Mr Janzen, is illustrative of the very deep shit that Canada finds itself in today, as the case against them, much like the cases of so many others across the country, is purely and 100% political, at both the federal and provincial levels. While Hamas Enthusiasts continue to employ violent rhetoric at demonstrations on Parliament Hill and across the country, and criminals walk free due to the the catastrophic mismanagement of our ‘justice system’, the government somehow has the resources to prosecute the the longest mischief trial in Canadian History and while doing so are diverting homicide detectives from solving drive-by shootings in Ottawa. The priorities of the ‘justice’ system are on full display, and that priority is not the safety and security of your communities – especially when principled men like Tony and Chris sit rotting in remand for over two years, while violent thugs who pulled off one of Canada’s most brazen robberies are walking free on bail.
Related:By contrast, what does the Dear Leader do to a foreigner in Canada who has been arrested at least 10 times for road and rail blockades, and convicted of mischief charges? Why he vetoes his deportation.
This alleged shakedown has an eery similarity to the Shumiatcher Deals of the Tommy Douglas government in Saskatchewan.
Morris Shumiatcher was a lawyer and former Attorney General under Tommy Douglas who would help people secure business development grants from the Saskatchewan government. The process worked that an existing business person would hire Shumiatcher and Shumiatcher would then put together a deal inwhich the applicant would sell shares in their business to Tommy Douglas and Clarence Fines, Fines being the Minister of Finance. Once the shares were purchased Shumiatcher would arrange for the business to receive a very generous grant from the Saskatchewan government for business development. Shortly after the grant was paid the business person would buy back the shares from Tommy Douglas and Clarence Fines at an enormous profit. This scheme was repeated numerous times. The similarity to the current allegations in BC are obvious.
To read more on this scandal and several more I suggest picking up The Road to Jerusalem.
Shumiatcher had numerous legal shenanigans throughout his career and often found himself on the wrong side of the law.
In the early 1960’s Clarence Fines ran off to Grenada with his secretary and a ton of Saskatchewan taxpayer money. One of the last things he did was write a letter to the bank explaining a cheque for $1,500 from the Alberta Distillers was to be deposited into a CCF party slush fund and that Tommy Douglas would be looking after the account henceforth, but that’s a Saskatchewan Mafia story for another day.
‘No minimum age listed in protocols for providing youth with taxpayer-funded recreational fentanyl.
It seems that parents will actually be powerless to stop the government from supplying their children with fentanyl, as safer supply technically counts as a health-care intervention and youth have substantial control over their own medical decisions in Canada.
While some provinces set a minimum age (typically between 14 and 16 years old) for when minors can make such decisions, British Columbia has no minimum and relies instead on a fluid idea of “capability” — youth in the province are considered “capable” if they understand what a medical intervention involves, why it is needed and its risks and benefits.
Yet it is hard to imagine any scenario where a drug-addicted minor would be capable of providing informed consent for safer supply fentanyl, given that addiction hijacks the brain and inhibits rational decision-making. While adults have extensive rights to personal self-determination, which permits them to make impaired or self-destructive decisions if they so choose, it is hard to see why this same freedom should be extended to youth when it comes to using hard drugs.
It is true that many drug-addicted youth are in foster care or estranged from their parents, and that, for them, securing parental consent is near-impossible. Yet making an exception for this subpopulation, and permitting them to receive free fentanyl, could incentivize other underage drug users to cut ties with their families and run away from home to secure free drugs.
As parents are often a youth’s greatest asset for recovery, any safer supply system that undermines child-parent relationships is harmful.
In a sad twist, the same laws that allow the government to give recreational fentanyl to kids without parental consent also prohibit parents from sending their children to involuntary addiction treatment — in other words, the government won’t help you force your kid to get clean, but they will give them unlimited “safe” drugs against your will.
As I argued in my MLI report, “By reframing the provision of unlimited recreational fentanyl as medical care, the provincial government may inadvertently turn itself into a parent’s worst nightmare — an unstoppable drug dealer with endless supply and unrestricted access to their child.”
While Health Canada confirmed to me in an email that it did not play a role in the development of these protocols, it did not respond to a follow-up email where I asked if the federal government had any objections to giving recreational fentanyl to minors.’
Many people have asked why the New Democratic Party (NDP) continue to support Justin Trudeau’s far left policies and tactics? The reason they do so is because for Canada’s Bolsheviks, Trudeau hasn’t gone far enough.
The CCF/NDP have always denied their far left intentions, even though they have committed them to paper on numerous occasions. So it is to be expected that they will deny them today. But once they gain power, they waste no time nationalizing the means of production. The NDP in Saskatchewan nationalized the mining, oil & gas, and forestry industries and made move to nationalize agriculture as well, something they swore they would never do.
“It is a small comfort that two of Canada’s political prisoners are now free. But no Canadian is free when their civil liberties can be trampled at will by their Prime Minister.”
“As Canada slides ever further into Totalitarianism, the media averts its eyes and pretends it isn’t happening. Canadians need to wake up and realize what time it is.”