In defending federal management of the COVID crisis, and justifying some of the extreme measures adopted, many questionable statements have been made by the prime minister and other government spokespersons. But surely some of the most egregious of those statements were made by three federal ministers – Justice Minister David Lametti, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino – at an Ottawa press conference on Feb. 16.
At that conference, where the ministers sought to justify the invoking of the Emergencies Act, they described the border blockades and the ongoing occupation of downtown Ottawa as foreign-funded, foreign-organized attacks meant to undermine Canada’s economy, sovereignty, and democracy. Minister Blair saying, for example: “We will not let any foreign entities that seek to do harm to Canada or Canadians, erode trust in our democratic institutions, or question the legitimacy of our democracy.”
But suppose that sometime in the not too distant future, the Trudeau government is replaced by who knows what and that new government establishes “The COVID Commission: The Royal Commission on the Federal Government’s Management of the COVID Crisis.”
Its task would be to secure, via impartial and thorough investigation, answers to the many unanswered questions as to why the Trudeau government did what it did and to test the truthfulness of the many statements made by government spokespersons to justify the government’s actions.
In investigating the charges and statements made by the three ministers on Feb. 16, the Commission is most likely to find:
- That both the Freedom Convoy’s Ottawa protest and the border blockades were wholly planned and organized in Canada and primarily funded by Canadians, and,
- That the statements made by the federal ministers to justify the invoking of the Emergencies Act were not only unsubstantiated by concrete evidence, but largely false and misleading.
To the predictable blowback from the Trudeau government’s defenders that public opinion polls showed over 50% of Canadians supported the government’s decision to end the protests via invoking the Emergencies Act, the Commission might well take the opportunity to provide Canadians a much needed lesson on the use and misuse of polls.
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See Also:
(1) The persecution of Freedom Convoy donors is disgusting
(2) Why Canada Will Become a Dictatorship Under Trudeau (Old Column but true!)
(3) Canada Freedom Convoy: European Parliament member compares Trudeau to communist ‘dictator’
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