The Hill Times- Quebec Liberal MP Robillard also breaks ranks, questions Trudeau government’s handling of pandemic, sides with Lightbound
Coutts to Kenney
“We want all provincial restrictions gone with zero chance of them being reintroduced.”
Mask Mandates: An Abrupt U-Turn
While watching this, keep in mind that Leana Wen was the hardest of hardcore mask advocates, including for children. Yet her Twitter feed reveals no mea culpa for the two years of damage she has strongly advocated for. As indicated in this link, it’s a wonder that Ms. Wen isn’t suffering from severe neck pain to spin around 180° so abruptly.
As others noted, there is nothing in The Science™ that changed to justify Dem politicians suddenly ending mask mandates. All that changed is the political fear they have.
Conflating “The Science” with politics like this is a key reason many lost trust in public health experts. https://t.co/yYpjR4b5Bt
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 8, 2022
h/t Carl
My How Colonial
And…
Threatening to drag kids away from their parents is no way to calm anything down.
Update: CBC sends crack reporter to ask truckers how they feel about this. It goes about as well as expected.
Update from Kate: Re the Ottawa Police Service release — You may send a report alleging certain Ottawa children are in the custody of a racist father, and that you fear for their emotional safety: yourcasquestion@casott.on.ca. I know I felt it was my civic duty to do so, and attached photographic evidence.
People B Nuts
Pubmed- Understanding coronaphobia
Published in September,2020 a handy little guide for “public health officials” to further drive the population insane. Probably not what the authors had in mind but as the Rolling Stones say, ” You can’t always get what you want”.
Sleep Tight Jason
Truckers to the right, teachers union to the left…
Disturbing to see that the teachers union thinks unmasked kids create “an unsafe workplace,” and is threatening legal action to force kids to wear masks indefinitely.
Almost all Alberta teachers are triple vaccinated.
Treat kids like kids, not “unsafe” vectors of transmission. pic.twitter.com/NdCq88SlDH
— Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@jkenney) February 9, 2022
Kenney Gotta Kenney
Jason Kenney gotta Kenney so the honking will continue.
Carrot: Masks off.
Stick: Infinite annual “booster” jabs, threat of re-defining “fully” vaccinated, allowing private businesses to impose their own vaccine passports, keeping the disgusting QR codes for human beings “to help” the federal government with travel restrictions, and basing freedom (allegedly) on the mismanagement of the provincial health care system.
Also, I didn’t hear anything about the province of Alberta ceasing their Covidjihad against Christian pastors. What is so difficult, Premier Jason Kenney, about keeping yours and your army of repulsive AHS bureaucrats grubby, disgusting tyrannical hands off of Christian pastors?
He thinks we are all stupid. He’s laughing at all of us. Well, we’ll see who laugh lasts. My shekels are on the truckers.
Truckers: HOLD THAT LINE.
(I know they will.)
The truckers and the organizers are very smart. Smarter than Jason Kenney and smarter than PM Trudeau and his handlers.
Read my interview with the convoy spokesman BJ Dichter right here.
#HonkHonk
Jason Kenny Releases “Plan”
Who Can?
I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying
Powerful
Gentle but powerful words. pic.twitter.com/IRVgB8w9ya
— Tim Moen (@moen_tim) February 8, 2022
“Still No Dancing”
Newfoundlanders, your reputation hangs in the brink here.
Carway, Alberta Border Crossing
Carway Border crossing.
I don’t see the point of these politicians setting dates to drop mandates, rather than immediately dropping them. Do they need a few days to meet with the virus to negotiate its dismissal?
It’s more than likely to make it appear they have some control left pic.twitter.com/0inNOSMJr3— bu/ac (@buperac) February 8, 2022
Update, from Kate — a reader just sent this photo: Bluewater bridge, Sarnia. Ain’t moving. Bring the pain
It’s Time
Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe: "It's time for the proof of vaccination mandate to end" pic.twitter.com/7Hi9hBRlTn
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 8, 2022
“…not everyone can earn a living from their MacBook at their cottage”
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe Live now
– The Potemkin passports or/testing is gone, effective Monday Feb. 14th.
– Indoor masking remains to end of February.
And it Continues To Spread
It appears the inmates at the island prison of New Zealand have had enough of mandates.
De Premières Fissures…
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”…
Lightbound taking shots at Trudeau:
“When it comes to the broader demonstrations we've seen in Ottawa and Quebec City and all across the country, I will abstain from the kind of generalizations that were heard these last few days,”, Quebec Liberal MP Joël Lightbound said.
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 8, 2022
CPAC Live.
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.
Windsor is a Big Deal
This is just not good. Bridge cams show zero traffic going either way. We estimate that agri-food imports through the Windsor/Detroit border crossing are about 45% of all agri-food imports to Ontario every year.
The Ambassador Bridge is the single busiest international border crossing in North America, handling about 25% of all US-Canada trade.
Anywhere between $8b to 12b$ worth of agri-food products go through the Ambassador Bridge/Detroit-Windsor Tunnel each year, both ways combined.
Pollspotting
CTV-Windsor
You’ll have to scroll down to the bottom right corner to find this one.
The Obsolete Media
Ezra Levant- The first thing to know about the media is that they’re lazy. They’d rather re-write a government press release than get up from their desk and report from the field — especially when it’s -20° out.
So they repeat Trudeau’s lie that the truckers are racist and sexist.
Road Trip
*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
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.