We need new political labels. That much has become clear amid Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s crackdown on the truckers’ revolt – the now weeks-long protests by truckers and their supporters, in Ottawa and elsewhere, against Covid vaccine mandates.
This week, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, for the first time in the law’s history, allowing banks to freeze the accounts of anyone associated with the protests with no need for court orders. Deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland added that the government was expanding rules on ‘terrorist financing’ to cover cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding sites. The vehicle insurance of anyone involved in the protests can also now be suspended, and police have been given new powers to imprison or fine protesters.
As disruptive as some of the truckers’ tactics are – the point of protest, after all, is to cause disruption – this is a remarkably authoritarian move, made by a ‘liberal’ prime minister desperately trying to defend his authoritarian Covid policies. Since then, outcry from the international liberal set has been conspicuous by its absence. Perhaps it isn’t authoritarianism when photogenic centrists do it.
Here we see Trudeau’s Canada following the example of Biden’s America, a ‘liberal’ government blithely casting dissenting citizens as a domestic-terrorist threat. But just as shameful – and revealing – has been the response from the supposedly pro-worker left. Leftists who claim to crave working-class revolt have been keen participants in the smear campaign against the truckers and their supporters.
Make no mistake: the so-called Freedom Convoy is a remarkable assertion of working-class power. Truckers from across Canada have descended on the capital to oppose vaccine mandates, and the threats to their livelihoods that they entail, drawing support from vaxxed and unvaxxed alike. Workers are refusing to do what they were told, and have brought the supply chains they work every day to a halt.
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To paraphrase….
First they came for the Truckers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trucker. Then they came for the ordinary Canadian supporters, and I did not speak out— Because I was not an ordinary Canadian supporter. Then they came for Conservatives, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Conservative. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.