Last Week Today Episode 165 Show Notes for Monday, September 9th, 2024
Two of Coutts Four Sentenced to Six & 1/2 Years in Prison, The NDP Cancels Liberal Partnership, Bill C-293, Slowing Down Immigration, the Two Travel Mandate Cases & Inhalable Vaccines.
Two of Coutts Four Sentenced to Six and a Half Years in Prison
Two of the Coutts four, Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert, have been sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison for their role in the Coutt’s border blockade in February 2022.
The blockade halted traffic at the border crossing for two weeks in 2022 to protest COVID-19 rules and vaccine mandates and was part of a series of large protests in Ottawa and across the country.
Those protests led Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act, essentially a declaration of martial law, on February 14th, 2022.
The men were charged after RCMP found guns, ammunition and body armor in trailers near the blockade and were charged with a variety of crimes including conspiring to kill RCMP officers, firearms charges and mischief.
As outlined in the September 9th, 2024 CBC News post, “Two men get 6½-year sentences for roles in border blockade at Coutts, Alta.,” the two were convicted last month of multiple charges including mischief over $5,000 and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace. Olienick was also convicted of possessing a pipe bomb.
In both cases, the main charge of conspiring to kill RCMP officers was dropped.
As outlined in the August 6th, 2024 Freedom Forum post, “Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert Found "Not Guilty" of "Conspiring to Kill RCMP Officers" during 2022 Truckers Convoy,” the charged the two defendants were convicted of certainly didn’t warrant their sentence.
They were given credit for four years times served for the time they each spend in jail awaiting trial. They are both expected to spend another two and a half years in prison.
In February 2022, four Canadian men were arrested on allegations that they conspired to kill Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers.
According to the November 30th, 2022 Calgary Herald post, “Some Coutts protesters wanted to alter Canada's political system, court documents say,” the plot was part of a wider plan to alter "Canada's political, justice and medical systems.”
Two other members of the Coutt’s Four, Christopher Lysak and Jerry Morin, we released from jail on February 6th, 2024 after pleading guilty to lesser charges and receiving sentences equivalent to “time served.”
Morin pleaded guilty to to the lesser charge of 'conspiracy to traffic firearms' while Lysak pleaded guilty he lesser charge of “possessing a licensed and registered handgun in a place that was not authorized.”
The February 2022 Trucker Convoy protests are generally considered to have broken the back of the vaccine mandates and lockdowns in Canada.
It’s also expected that Olienick and Carbert will both appeal their decision. Stay tuned.
Also in the News this Week
The NDP Cancels its Governance Agreement with the Liberals.
The NDP has ended its governance agreement with the ruling Justin Trudeau Liberals.
As outlined in the August 9th, 2024 CBC News post, “The NDP is ending its governance agreement with the Liberals,” the deal “was the first such agreement at the federal level” amongst national political parties.
The supply-and-confidence agreement struck between the two parties in March 2022 committed the NDP to “supporting the Liberal government on confidence votes in exchange for legislative commitments on NDP priorities.”
The agreement came only one month after the Justin Trudeau Liberal government was forced to back down from ongoing vaccine mandates and lockdown edicts by the various protests of the Canadian truckers in Ottawa and Coutt’s Alberta.
The agreement was considered essential to maintain the minority Trudeau government in power and gave the Liberals a majority in Parliament.
The deal breaking might not even be a real or even all that consequential.
As outlined in the September 8th, 2024 Canadian Press post, “Bloc Québécois looks to make deals with Liberals as NDP ends agreement,” one of the government’s options is to make a deal with the BQ, which holds 32 seats in Canada’s Parliament. With eight seats more than the current NDP, the BQ is well positioned to support the ruling Liberals until their mandate runs out in October 2025.
The September 7th, 2024 CBC News post, “How the NDP's deal with the Liberals died,” noted that neither NDP Leader Singh nor Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really want to call an election this fall.
As outlined in the August 9th, 2024 Toronto Star post, “Jagmeet Singh tells Justin Trudeau not to call a fall election and instead recall Parliament,” the NDP leader is:
…challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to recall Parliament and refrain from calling a snap summer election as all parties prepare for a federal campaign that is widely expected to start soon.
In a letter to Trudeau that was obtained by the Star on Monday, Singh pledges his New Democratic Party is “ready to work” with the Liberal minority government on legislation both leaders have deemed important — stalled bills to ban conversion therapy and eliminate mandatory minimum jail sentences.
He also says the NDP wants to ensure emergency benefits for the unemployed aren’t cut and that Ottawa has a “national vaccination strategy” to increase COVID-19 inoculations before “another wave of sickness and death” crashes over the country.
Given that no one really expects an election nor any change in the status quo anytime soon, this story might just end up becoming a tempest in a teapot.
Bill C-293, the Pandemic Preparation and Prevention Act
Also in the news this week, Bill C-293, the Pandemic Preparation and Prevention Act, the law that NDP leader Singh want to work with the Trudeau Liberals with to insure becomes law, has almost passed its final hurdle.
As outlined in the June 7th, 2024 Rebel News post, “NDP-Liberal cabal pass ‘pandemic preparedness’ bill, no inquiry into COVID upcoming,” the bill passed its 3rd reading in the House in June 2024 and currently awaiting Senate approval.
Not everyone approves of the bill. The September 8th, 2024 Freedom Rising advocacy group e-mail, “Say No to Bill C-293 Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act; IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED,” notes that the legislation is inadequate in many ways.
In essence and according to Freedom Rising, the Canadian government is on the verge of passing legislation to create a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan WITHOUT first having an official review and analysis of the response to the last pandemic prevention and preparedness plan used against COVID-19 during the great pandemic of 2020 – 2022.
Before any plans are made of how to respond to a future “pandemic” there must be an independent review of the various government’s response to the COVID-19 “pandemic.”
Serious mistakes were made with COVID-19 including violations of fundamental rights and freedoms and the medical ethics of informed and voluntary consent. These mistakes must be acknowledged and rectified.
Other problems with the current legislation include:
The lack of even a general definition in the legislation of the term “pandemic.”
No provisions to address the overt violations of rights and freedoms that occurred due to government over-reach in response to COVID-19.
No mention of addressing the adverse effects caused by the “COVID-19 jabs” and other medical and public health interventions.
No clarity or intention to assess the “lessons learned” from previous outbreaks.
The “One Health Approach” referenced in C-293 has never been scientifically proven to be “central to preventing the risk of future pandemics.” The approach seems to be mostly a platitude, originating through the World Health Organization (WHO) and championed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) focused around international central control using “stakeholders,” tasked with “working together.”
The reliance on fraudulent diagnostic “tests” (PCRfraud.com) and worthless personal protective equipment (MaskCharade.com).
There is no provision for public input into the process of creating a plan for prevention and preparedness of any future “pandemic.”
There’s not been a lot of legacy news coverage of this legislation, which seems reasonable given that legacy outlets mostly defer to governments press releases in these sorts of things.
The legislation is expected to pass the final Senate hurdle by the end of the year unless activist groups like Freedom Rising can stop it.
Slowing Down Immigration
Ottawa is finally putting the brakes on both legal and illegal immigration into Canada probably because the issue enjoys wide support in Canada and the Trudeau Liberals don’t want to be completely destroyed in the next election.
The September 1st, 2024 Canadian Press post, “Liberal immigration pivot forces Canada to reckon with approach to labour shortages” provides a litany of talking points in favor of increased immigration even a s the government pulls back from it, if only because the legacy media and the elites favor immigration.
The August 30th, 2024 Global News post, “Visitors can no longer apply for work permits while in Canada,” notes that the federal government is tightens its rules for foreign workers over abuse concerns.
And, as outlined in the September 7th, 2024 Global News post, “International student enrolment down 45 per cent, Universities Canada says,” universities in Canada are warning that the impact from the federal government’s cap on international students visa’s will be “far greater” than what Ottawa aimed for.
Universities could even face bankruptcy.
For now, at least, that’s a price the ruling Trudeau Liberals are willing to pay to remain in the running for the next election.
The Supreme Court’s Two Travel Mandate Cases.
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear two Covid-19 travel mandate cases.
As noted in the September 3rd, 2024 Freedom Forum post, “Canada's Supreme Court has Refused to Hear Two Covid-19 Travel Mandate Cases,“ in both cases:
… the Federal Court held the issues were moot because the vaccine travel mandate had been rescinded after the cases had been filed and cross-examination had occurred, but prior to the court hearings” and noted that any“ decision (the court might make) will not have a practical effect and it is not worth the time and effort to decide the case otherwise.
But the Supreme Court of Canada is in error on this decision.
The vaccine mandates and travel mandates have been rescinded, but the legislation is still on the books and Federal government ministers have promised to reinstitute the legislation as they see fit, without consulting the people.
Given that the potential for reinstitution of vaccine mandates was on the table even when the original mandates were being revoked, the Supreme Court finding that to two court reviews are “moot” and “will not have a practical effect,” seems on the surface to be demonstrably false.
The Supreme Court must hear and judge the two vaccine travel restriction cases.
Any other court action goes against 175 years of Canadian jurisprudence. Any Supreme Court justice who forgets this simple fact should resign from the bench immediately.
Inhalable Vaccines
And finally tonight, we taking a look at the September 7th, 2024 Mongo Minds on Bitchute post, “INHALABLE VACCINES … INTENDED TO GET AROUND INFORMED CONSENT.”
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