https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/...delete-you

Article discusses how the banks and financial system are interconnected and how Trudeau used the system to attack those with differing opinions.

"...The Trudeau government declared a state of emergency, and using its emergency powers began to freeze the bank accounts of anyone they had reason to believe was blocking roads and bridges—including not just the truckers and other protesters themselves, but those who financially supported them. Rather than having to go through the very difficult task of physically moving semitrucks, and fining, ticketing, or charging those who blocked bridges and roads, the government gave a simple order—and with a few keystrokes, people associated with the protest were almost completely locked out of Canada’s financial system. Everything from paying mortgages, to buying gas, to getting a cup of coffee at a drive-thru became impossible for those that the government had deemed to be a problem.

What happens when a government is no longer required to do the very difficult, friction-filled work of finding people, writing tickets, arresting them, charging them, granting them due process, obtaining convictions, and jailing the guilty? When the government can bring a person’s practical participation in society to a standstill with the push of a button, it becomes silly to even talk about individual rights or due process. In the face of this new kind of push-button power, exercised at the whim of the governing party with zero legal oversight, individuals can simply be deleted from the system—even if, technically speaking, they are never charged with or convicted of a crime...."

Yup!

Scary stuff

Good article but my take is that it is a dollar short and a day late. This should have been written several weeks ago when the Canadian trucker protest was grabbing headlines, before all the other news cycle distractions.

My only other quibble was the author calling Canada a democracy. Loosely, maybe but functionally, no. Especially highlighted by Trudeau/Castro using his executive power to do what he did in freezing bank accounts. That doesn't happen in a democracy. Yet.

But the points made about how digital banking, info systems and the like make doing what Trudeau did easy and frightening remains true.

Good news! Prime Minister Trudeau has reached a tentative deal with the NDP that would allow his Liberal government to remain in place until 2025 -

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-...-1.6392756

(03-21-2022 09:13 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Good news! Prime Minister Trudeau has reached a tentative deal with the NDP that would allow his Liberal government to remain in place until 2025 -

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-...-1.6392756

When are you moving to Canada?

(03-21-2022 09:22 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(03-21-2022 09:13 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Good news! Prime Minister Trudeau has reached a tentative deal with the NDP that would allow his Liberal government to remain in place until 2025 -

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-...-1.6392756

When are you moving to Canada?

Ill buy his ticket

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(03-21-2022 09:48 PM)maximus Wrote:  

(03-21-2022 09:22 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(03-21-2022 09:13 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Good news! Prime Minister Trudeau has reached a tentative deal with the NDP that would allow his Liberal government to remain in place until 2025 -

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-...-1.6392756

When are you moving to Canada?

Ill buy his ticket

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I'll pay his moving costs as long as he renounces his US citizenship.

(03-21-2022 09:13 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Good news! Prime Minister Trudeau has reached a tentative deal with the NDP that would allow his Liberal government to remain in place until 2025 -

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-...-1.6392756

So does that mean Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will apply to become US States?

(03-21-2022 01:13 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Good article but my take is that it is a dollar short and a day late. This should have been written several weeks ago when the Canadian trucker protest was grabbing headlines, before all the other news cycle distractions.

My only other quibble was the author calling Canada a democracy. Loosely, maybe but functionally, no. Especially https://www.deccanherald.com/internation...90567.html by Trudeau/Castro using his executive power to do what he did in freezing bank accounts. That doesn't happen in a democracy. Yet.

But the points made about how digital banking, info systems and the like make doing what Trudeau did easy and frightening remains true.

I think Canada is every bit the democracy the US is.