Looks like Canada has its own version of the Oathkeepers/III%er’s:

https://apple.news/AoDUPxBDzSY20P0C-r70bEQ



Much, much more at link, including details about how the this insurrection is being run like a military operation, with supply lines providing fuel, food and other necessities, including saunas.

This report raises numerous questions:

Why has it taken two weeks for this information to be reported?

Was this insurrection an actual failure of Canada’s intelligence agencies, or did they deliberately turn a blind eye?

Are the police truly “under resourced” to handle this crisis, or are they unwilling to enforce the law against their former colleagues?

If Trudeau ends up calling in the military to resolve this crisis, will they obey his orders?

Has this insurrection been funded by anyone connected to the January 6 insurrection?

Is this insurrection by former police and military actually a slow motion coup?

Hyperbole? Perhaps, perhaps not.

When a small (a few hundred) well organized, well funded (*cough* ElonMusk *cough*) mob of anti-democracy thugs with heavy trucks can occupy and terrorize Canada’s capital for two weeks, and cripple cross-border commerce, without consequences (oh sure, there’s an injunction against horn honking, and a lawsuit, yet, the chaos continues), what does that say about the strength and stability of Canada’s democracy?

Local officials state they cannot direct the police response (who does control law enforcement?)

The police say they don’t have the resources to handle the crisis.

Doug Ford twiddles his thumbs.

Justin Trudeau expresses Susan-Collins-level of concern in a speech scolding the “protestors”.

Canadian media give polite bothsiderism coverage to the occupation (“residents can’t sleep, shop, or work, but the small minority of unvaccinated truckers do have a valid point to make”).

Maxim Bernier’s ultra-right People’s Party of Canada (PPC) got around 5% of the vote nationwide in last fall’s election, and didn’t win a single seat in Parliament, yet they are the loudest voice in this debate right now. The tyranny of the minority is alive and well in Canada.

What would the response be if ISIS, the Proud Boys, or Putin decided they wanted to cripple Canada’s economy and block law abiding truckers from cross border commerce? This disruptive chaos is Steve Brannon’s wet dream, and I’m sure he and his gang are learning well how to astroturf the next insurrection.

This was a complete failure on the part of Canada’s intelligence agencies to anticipate the potential impact of this convoy, which was planned for months.

Two provinces have already acquiesced to the terrorists’ demands and lifted all COVID restrictions; more are sure to follow. Will Trudeau cave and lift the vaccine requirements for cross border truckers?

Supposedly, Parliament is set to “debate” proposed responses to the crisis…too little, too late.

If Trudeau won’t take immediate steps to end this tyranny of the minority, including calling up the military through the Emergencies Act, then IMO NDP leader Jagmeet Singh should call a vote of No Confidence and force a new election.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/07/why-to-delay-a-mark-meadows-indictment-bannon-is-using-his-contempt-prosecution-to-monitor-the-ongoing-january-6-investigation/

Marcy makes a great case why DOJ isn’t indicting Meadows now, brings the receipts, and some cases, the receipts for those receipts.



Much, much more at link.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/02/while-tv-lawyers-wailed-impotently-doj-was-acquiring-sidney-powell-and-rudy-giuliani-and-probably-mark-meadowss-communications/



Much, much more at link, including breakdowns on each of Powell, Rudy and Meadows legal issues and the evidence that has, or will be obtained.

Because if all the reporting on the WH meetings re: seizing voting machines is true (and it appears there are multiple documents and testimony corroborating the reports), they are all going to prison.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/01/i-do-share-information-rudy-you-never-read-your-emails-you-never-read-your-texts-sidney-powell-purportedly-said-while-plotting-a-coup/

Meadows, Flynn, Powell and Waldron (who authored the draft EO) can stonewall the committee, yet it appears there is enough documentary evidence and testimony from other witnesses to put them all away.

Some have been screaming for over a year that Trump and the coup architects should have been locked up immediately, but it’s just been a little over a week since SCOTUS forced the release of Trump’s records. In addition, high ranking Pence staffers have just testified today and in recent days.

Trump’s unhinged rally meltdown over the weekend should serve as proof that things are on the right track.