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We’ll Huff And We’ll Puff And We’ll Blow Your Trucks Down

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Bloomberg: No one is certain what it will take to get the Canadian truckers to end their protest…

Thomas Daigle CBC News: · There has been very little, if any, movement from the police line for hours. Windsor protesters again have loud music blasting. There’s no traffic flowing on the Ambassador Bridge. No arrests.

Now in BC – Protesters break through RCMP barricade, block Surrey border crossing”

Colin D’Mello CTVNews – Day 1 of the State of Emergency in Ontario (and 24h after the injunction deadline) and the Ambassador Bridge continues to be blocked, while the Ottawa Occupation has grown.

Aerial View of Windsor

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Can be seen here. 

@thomasdaigle — Even though police have been moving in on protesters in Windsor, pushing them back, the crowd size actually seems to be growing. More protesters are arriving and few are leaving.

Aerial Update

Somewhere around Niagara

Emerson, Mb

I hope everybody packed a lunch.

Crowd in Windsor still growing. 

Veterans show up to hold the line in Windsor.

Good thing the Mounties brought their own tow truck to Emerson.

We’ll Huff And We’ll Puff And We’ll Blow Your Trucks Down

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@sunlorrie – Mapping the trucker convoy in Ottawa: ‘no one’s leaving here’: The so-called “freedom convoy” that has snarled downtown Ottawa streets is widening its grip on the city, sprawling out in new, smaller encampments scattered around town.

Read the whole thread. Heh.

Asset forfeiture

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Ezra Levant has a detailed explanation on his Twitter feed of the process by which the Ontario government is attempting to block the use of the donated convoy funds. He notes that the protest organizers will have an opportunity to respond in court in a day or two.

It’s clearly an attempt at asset forfeiture; it’s similar to the cops’ theft of the convoy’s fuel a few days ago. This is a tactic that would normally be used to seize a boat or a car belonging to a drug dealer. They are likely to have a hard time proving that Tamara Lich is some sort of dangerous felon.

But you can’t rule out the simplest answer — that the government was under such political pressure to shut down the truckers, by any means or method necessary, that they simply decided to deceive the court — anything to make these truckers go away, to hell with the law.

Update (from Robert) : Here’s the ThreadReader version of Ezra’s tweets.

Acknowledging reality

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The narrative must be shifting when even the CBC recognizes the sheer logistical nightmare of trying to tow all those trucks in Ottawa as a means of stopping what has now become a growing insurgency.

Police don’t think towing the trucks is an effective solution, said Matt Skof, president of the Ottawa Police Association.

“You can tow all you want — they’re just going to return to the location, so it hasn’t resolved the issue,” Skof said. “And where are you putting all these vehicles?”

Towing large trucks is “incredibly logistically difficult,” Skof said, and any trucks removed would likely be quickly replaced by new ones arriving. Even if barriers were set up to prevent their re-entry, that would just push the problem to another part of the city, Skof said.

Treasonous thoughts

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As the narrative shifts, hopefully we will hear more calls like this one to stop the demonization of the mandate protesters.

So let’s start with Deans, whose high-drama interview with CBC’s Power and Politics on Tuesday was so rich in deliciously mock-worthy ironies.

“This is not something this country has ever seen before,” Deans began, apparently forgetting the October Crisis of 1970, the Solidarity general strike in British Columbia in 1983, the Oka Crisis of 1990, the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots of 1994, the destructive 2010 G20 protest violence in Toronto, the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots of 2011, the crippling anti-pipeline blockades of rail lines, ports, highways and ferries across Canada in 2020, and so on.

“This is treason. This is a group of well-polished, professional people that are trying to overthrow the government, the democratically-elected government of this country,” Deans said.

Better Call The Boss

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National Post;

The blockades have started disrupting production.

Both Ford Motor Co and Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday they had been forced to halt some operations because of supply chain disruptions stemming from protests that have snarled traffic at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor. Chrysler-maker Stellantis has also been disrupted.

Toyota, the top U.S. seller, said it was not expecting to produce vehicles at its Ontario sites for the rest of the week.

Ford’s engine plant in Windsor is shut down and the schedule cut back at its Oakville assembly plant outside Toronto that makes the Edge model, spokesperson Said Deep said Wednesday an email. The automaker is continuing to ship engine inventory to U.S. plants, he added.

General Motors Co said today it was forced to cancel two production shifts at a plant in Michigan where it builds sport utility vehicles as a result of the Canadian trucking protests.

Flipping the narrative– I’m just doing what they have done to us for 2 years

As The Science Changes…

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As mid-terms approach and deeply unpopular Democrat governors scramble to reduce Covid restrictions, I’m going to spitball a prediction: should the border closures drag on, Biden will come to Trudeau’s rescue and announce the end of cross border vaccine mandates on the US side due to “changing science”. This would give Trudeau a new off-ramp, and send the ball back in the truckers’ court — all without the humiliation of a white flag.

The unknowable variable: they may all be too stupid to think of it.

Andrew Breitbart Was Here

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I send this email a few moments ago to a friend in national media — and he is a friend.

We watched pipelines get cancelled, LNG plants yanked, Caledonia thrown to the wolves — and Spendy McBlackface take a knee over some dead guy in Minneapolis.

Did the national media and professional left really think the business of bringing government and industry to a standstill would always remain the exclusive jurisdiction of Liberal rent-a-mobs?

And that’s the real problem, yes? There’s no one to call them off. Think about that. The professional protests of the left have structure, a chain of command and big money funders to direct them.

These protests don’t. They’re completely organic, which means they can spread and grow without the help of a Soros backed foundation. And it’s fucking glorious.

(BTW, have you ever read Kurt Schlichter’s “new rules” pieces? You really should. If you haven’t, let me send you a couple quick links).

De Premières Fissures…

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LaPresse reports that Liberal MP Joel Lightbound [Louis-Hébert] will oppose mandatory vaccination policies at a 10:15 news conference…

Bumped — “There are others who feel as I do”…

CPAC Live.

COVID-19: Liberal MP critical of government’s “divisive” approach, wants roadmap to ending restrictions

The federal government needs to quickly offer a road map for the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, according to Quebec Liberal MP Joël Lightbound, citing mental health concerns from pediatricians and the parents of depressed children, and the inability of many to earn a living from a “MacBook at their cottage.”

Lightbound, MP for Louis-Hébert, chair of the industry committee and the Quebec Liberal caucus, and a former parliamentary secretary to the finance minister, said the Liberal government has changed in policy and in tone since last year’s election campaign and appears unwilling to adapt to the evolution of the pandemic.

“Now the approach stigmatizes people and divides people,” he told reporters this morning, pointing to the loosening of restrictions in European countries with lower vaccination rates than Canada.

Lightbound said he raised his concerns in caucus to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but owes it to constituents to publicly voice his concerns. He said other Liberal MPs share his concerns and that the party has historically been “open for dissent and different opinions.”

Lightbound wants the federal government to: provide “quantifiable parameters” for current measures such as the threshold for hospitalization publish studies and scientific advice underpinning current measures start negotiating with the provinces on the Canada Health Transfer, calling the federal position “hard to understand” in terms of the timing of negotiations

Lightbound also said demonstrators causing disruption and gridlock in Ottawa need to move, but their concerns need to be addressed.

Road Trip

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*In a late night emergency press conference organizers in Ottawa are requesting more people to join them this week. They’re calling it a pre-emptive SOS.

There’s a concern with the increase in the number of police they are seeing and the saber rattling coming from all three levels of government. No one is sure but they’re hearing reports that there may be far more police waiting in the wings ready to make a move on them. If all of a sudden the social media feeds we’ve been seeing go dark that means that police will be moving in. Likely with a tactic called “Kettling”.  Livestreams being the obvious place where it would be the most noticeable.

I found the video of the press conference on someone’s Facebook page. So far I haven’t found it anywhere else. If anyone else has other links please put them in the comments.

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/LauraLynnTT/videos/307557681434831

Found it on Rumble

YouTube version here.

Everyone is hoping that they’re being overly cautious here but it is a numbers game. If there’s a large enough group of people committed to remaining peaceful the police won’t be able to do much of anything.

-Borders are now blocked at Coutts and Windsor crossings and possibly others as well.

The Honking Will Continue

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Trudeau gets his answer.

The Ambassador Bridge land border crossing that connects Windsor, Ont., and Detroit is “not accessible,” police say, as protesters demonstrating in solidarity with the ongoing anti-mandate protests in Ottawa are blocking traffic.

In a notice Monday evening, the Ontario Provincial Police’s Essex County detachment said as of approximately 8 p.m., the Ambassador Bridge is “not accessible in both directions going into the United States as well as entering into Canada.”

The force said those looking to travel into the United States should utilize the Bluewater Bridge in Sarnia.[…]

In an email to Global News earlier on Monday evening, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed that demonstrations were “contributing to significant border wait times” at the bridge.

Initially, the CBSA website said wait times at the bridge could be up to four hours, but by 10 p.m., the agency said the bridge was “temporarily closed.”

So Trudeau just learned something new: move on Ottawa and you lose the bridge. They’re learning the fundamental law of governing the hard way — that state power is just an illusion.

To wit.

And.

Ottawa Update

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I’m not going to bother linking to anything here just some quick notes on what I’ve seen this morning. None of which comes from what would be considered normal or necessarily reliable sources. As much as we don’t like social media that’s how everyone on the ground is getting their message out and communicating with each other. A lot of these guys have never used any of it before and they’re learning on the go.  And its actually working really well. 

Looks like the cops got a couple of slip tanks and some jerry cans. A couple of pickup trucks got towed for having slip tanks on them. Nothing major. The new rule is if you have the paperwork to prove you’re a trucker you can transport fuel to your own vehicle but not to someone else’s. A campaign has started to get everyone on the hill to carry an empty jerry can with them at all times. Let the cops figure out which ones have fuel.

There was a show of force by police. Estimate was up to 100 officers in one group. They got their photo-op for the corporate press. Looks great on TV but it had no real impact. Everyone is still there.

Word on the street is that the goal for the police is to get everyone out of there today, clean things up tomorrow and have parliament resume on Wednesday.  To which I say good luck.

Morale amongst the protesters is high.

Again take everything I just wrote here with a grain of salt. Its a fluid situation and good intel is hard to come by in the heat of the moment.

Trucker fund is up to $4.5 million USD this morning.

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Video footage from Ottawa tonight. All of these are pretty short.

Aerial view of a basecamp raid.

Walking view of raid part 1

Walking view of raid part 2

Removing the soup kitchen

A message from on the ground.

The walk of shame.

Seizing jerry cans of fuel.

There may be more action tonight but no one really knows. Sounds like everyone’s hunkering down and going over their contingency plans. Ottawa has kicked the hornets nest. Every other protest going on in the country knows what’s happening here. You escalate the situation in one area you’ll likely get responses in the other ones.

Some chatter going around in Ottawa that if the truckers get run out of their primary location they will switch to multiple locations around the city. Instead of one centralized area police would then be forced to deal with a number of them all at the same time.

Update: Then again…it’s possible it was all just for show and some clips for the corporate press.

Update 2: An emergency… party?

“On Thursday four senior Downing Street aides resigned.”

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On Friday another aide followed…

When the great 19th-century Tory leader, Benjamin Disraeli, came to his friend (and fellow-novelist) Edward Bulwer-Lytton and asked for his political support in a forthcoming parliamentary debate, Lytton said: “Well, I will support you if you’re right.”

“That’s no use to me,” responded Dizzy. “Anyone can support me when I’m right. What I want is people who will support me when I’m wrong.”

That’s the unenviable position in which the U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson finds himself today. He is seeking support from MPs in his own Tory party when he’s in the wrong. And not just mildly, mistakenly, accidentally, or partly in the wrong, but massively, seriously, undeniably, and stonkingly in the wrong.

It’s John O’Sullivan, just keep reading.

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