I am somewhat pissed off at our politicians (Trudeau(Lib), Bergen(PC), Singh(NDP), van Bynen(MP), Ford(PC), Horwath(NDP), del Duca(Lib), Elliott(MPP), Tory(Toronto)) and our media(TO Star, TO Globe and Mail) about their lack of concern and ineffectual action with the insurrectionists. So I wrote a letter to them. I got some thank-you responses. This is a copy of it:
Dear Sir/Madam:
Canadians Deserve Their Country Back
What we have seen over the last three weeks is the most dismal abdication of responsibility by Canadian authorities in my lifetime if not since Confederation.
What started as a “false flag” scam has turned into rule by lawless mobs!
The Americans put in a requirement (months ago?) that no one entered the USA unless they were fully vaccinated. That makes sense, if you are an adult and are unvaccinated then by definition you are a threat to public safety and must be excluded. The Canadians to their discredit have only imposed this rule recently. The anti-vaxxer truckers then cry that they will not be able to get back into Canada. This is the “false flag” scam because only an idiot would say they could not get from the USA into Canada when they could NOT get into the USA to begin with.
So then these anti-vaxxers start their self-aggrandizing tour across Canada. Along the way, they broke countless laws and bylaws. For example, they camped overnight in the Vaughan Mills Plaza. This is expressly prohibited by York Region. As for the Region, they abrogated their responsibilities by doing nothing.
Once in Ottawa, they illegally occupied the downtown area. (Of course, it is illegal; if I parked my car in the middle of Wellington Street in front of the Parliament Buildings and got out and started yelling, I would be very quickly arrested and my car towed. And if I resisted arrest, I could only imagine what would happen next.) In so doing the mob stopped people from living and working in that part of Canada. As I read it, this is a violation of Section 6 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As you cannot use a law to justify a crime, this mob just forfeited the right to assembly, Section 2c of the Charter. In addition, there can be no claim of PEACEFUL assembly because their threats of violence against anyone who opposes them is well documented in the press. After weeks of terrorism on the residents, the response from the Ottawa police chief is “The lawlessness must end”. What a joke! All talk, no action, does not care about returning the city to civility.
In Toronto, hospital workers were advised not to wear scrubs in public. My understanding is John Tory said he could not guarantee the safety of those workers while walking to work. In this situation, would not any action, verbal or physical, against those workers be classified as a hate crime? Shame on you, John Tory.
On the topic of hospitals, today’s provincial hospital data gives 150 vaccinated (defined as two doses) in ICU and 132 unvaccinated in ICU. As well, 85% of Ontarians (5yr +) are vaccinated. If 100% were vaccinated, the ICU number would be 175 (150/85%*100%). This means the number of ICU patients would be reduced by 107 or 40%. Clearly, the problem remains to be the unvaccinated. And what do we hear from the Provincial authorities about THE problem? In a word – NOTHING.
As for the actions on the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, at the Emerson Crossing in Manitoba and other crossings, how can the illegal closure of the border by a lawless mob be tolerated? If this continues, there better not be any concerns raised about supply chains or any talk about inflation or interest rate hikes or talk of labor shortages when people are stopped from getting to the job.
So let me summarize – I do not want anything.
What I demand is the Canadian constitution be upheld and the laws of Canada be enforced.
If our “leaders” cannot do this, then come the next election my duty is that I will vote for whoever shall do this.
Yours truly, one of tens of millions of Canadians who are tired of feckless and feeble leadership.
me!