Category: Basic Dictatorship

New Governor

While the brainwashed masses in the deranged dominion are distracted by the firing of Jimmy Kimmel…

National Post- Carney invites the Supreme Court to rewrite the Constitution — at democracy’s peril

The Charter’s notwithstanding clause exists to keep judges from usurping elected legislators. The feds want to take that away

National Post- Ottawa and the provinces prepare to battle in constitutional combat over notwithstanding clause

With a short, 20-odd page Supreme Court submission on Wednesday, the federal government struck a match and threw it onto a pile of Constitutional gasoline that was growing for years and primed to blow.

They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum

Brian Lilley;

In a submission to the Supreme Court, the federal government is asking the court to neuter part of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case before the court is a challenge to Quebec’s Bill 21, the law on secularism in the province.

The province has of course used the notwithstanding clause for the bill as they have done several times over the decades with other laws. The notwithstanding clause is also known as section 33 of the Charter, it was a key of the package that got the Charter and the constitutional changes of 1982 passed.

Now, the federal government under Mark Carney is going to ask the courts to limit, in some ways remove this power from elected legislatures while reserving this power for judges.

“The constitutional limits of the s. 33 power preclude it from being used to distort or annihilate the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Charter, or to reduce them to des peaux de chagrin, that is, to shrivel them beyond recognition, if not transform them into mere legal fictions,” reads the submission.

Section 1 of the Charter allows judges to override Charter rights with no checks and balances, no recourse for citizens. Section 33 allows legislatures to override rights in a limited way and the citizens can vote out governments that they find abusive.

None of the people you will hear from on this issue ,who support the Carney government’s move, will ever ask that judges have their ability to override rights curtailed in anyway.

Expect several provinces, if not all, to oppose this attempt to change the Charter via judicial decree.

It’s Not Hypocrisy It’s Hierarchy

Shawn Rickard- In 2021/2022 unvaccinated Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW’s) received exemptions from Trudeau’s tyrannical Vaccine Travel Mandates, permitting them to freely board a plane and leave the country while 5-6 million unvaccinated Canadian citizens and PR’s were illegally stripped of their charter/human rights and banned from boarding all forms of federally regulated transportation (including domestic & international flights, trains, buses and ships). Canadians were literally held hostage in their own country while TFW’s got preferential treatment over citizens. We will be exposing this in Federal Court.

Government of Canada- Question Period Note: Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program (including travel issues)

The travel exemptions allowing unvaccinated temporary foreign workers to leave Canada on commercial flights will provide the short-term workforce support necessary to maintain our high-standard levels of trade, commerce, and food security.

Corporate Canada’s Useful Idiot in Ottawa…

Might I suggest Mark J Carney take some advise about temporary foreign workers from his old boss?  He might learn a thing or two…

“Evidence began to accumulate that many temporary foreign workers were being hired for entry-level jobs that unemployed or underemployed Canadians might be doing, in sectors from fast-food to retail, sometimes even in regions of high unemployment. Jason Kenney, then minister of immigration, pointed out that this was surely driving down the wages of lower-income Canadians – and despite the demands of some employers, lower market wages should not be an objective of government policy.” – Globe & Mail, Aug 28th 2016

 

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Insane Asylum

Andrew Coyne has completely lost it…

By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a “slide” into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

…or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…

The Coyne Affair

 

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

That’s a good question, because, does anyone remember the Coutts Nine? Does anyone even know who or what the Coutts Nine are? We should, given that they were arrested along with four other men who were charged with conspiracy to murder police at the COVID 19 mandate protest in the town of Coutts, Alberta. A protest that coincided with Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa that took place in the winter of 2022. Those four men came to be known as the Coutts Four, and while conspiracy charges were not laid against the Coutts Nine, it was implied, at the time of their arrests, by the RCMP and the government and the media, that they were involved in that plot. To that end they were all charged with mischief and weapons possession offences, and we have heard little of their fate since.

New Dictatorship, Same As The Old Dictatorship

Lawyerlisa;

Here is the letter Eva Chipiuk received July 17, 2025. She shared it on her LinkedIn profile. RBC Royal Bank is de-banking a Canadian hero.

EVA is now outside “client risk appetite.”

Who is EVA?

Well here she is cross examining former Prime Minister Trudeau in the Public Order Commission. The POC came out of the Emergency Act which debanked Canadians for donating to the trucker convoy.

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Honk Honk

Western Standard;

An Ontario judge has ordered the RCMP and TD Bank to hand over records related to the freezing of Evan Blackman’s bank accounts during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.

Blackman was arrested on February 18, 2022, under the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, and charged with mischief and obstruction. He was acquitted in October 2023, but the Crown appealed and a new trial is set to begin on August 14, 2025.

Blackman is now seeking access to records detailing how and why his accounts were frozen, to support a Charter application at his retrial. His lawyers argue the freeze was a serious violation of his constitutional rights and plan to ask the court to stay the case.

“The freezing of Mr. Blackman’s bank accounts was an extreme overreach on the part of the police and the federal government,” said Chris Fleury, a constitutional lawyer representing Blackman.

“These records will hopefully reveal exactly how and why Mr. Blackman’s accounts were frozen.”

Blackman welcomed the ruling.

“I’m delighted that we will finally get records that may reveal why my bank accounts were frozen,” he said.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is backing Blackman’s legal challenge, called the ruling a significant development.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

National Post: Guilbeault is now back in charge of controlling the internet

Guilbeault will be supervising the implementation of the Online Streaming Act, a 2023 law that enables the feds to impose content controls over much of the Canadian internet.

Tuesday’s cabinet shuffle retained Guilbeault in his pre-election post as minister of Canadian Identity and Culture. The position gives him oversight over the CBC, Parks Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, among others.
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“Thank you for your confidence, Prime Minister Mark Carney. I look forward to getting to work building a stronger country, based on the values of Canadians,” said Guilbeault in a Tuesday social media post.[…]

The Act also requires streaming services to pay five per cent of their revenues to government-administered media funds.

Within hours of Guilbeault’s reappointment, one of those funds, the Canada Media Fund, publicly welcomed him into the post.

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