New Canadian Politics Thread

[Fred the Man]

Get him Not Murphy Brown!!!

 

[UWHabs]

Interesting thread about the state of the occupation

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

 

[hockeylover]

 

[leafman101]

So that’s why police need tanks and ARs. Truckers.

 

[hockeylover]

DeSantis and Paxton getting involved and a shitload of money from the States to disrupt major Canadian cities is a fucking joke.

 

[leafman101]

 

[hockeylover]

Jesus.

 

[LeafGm]

I think the answers another question I’ve had lately whenever I’ve checked out various Canadian subreddits and the subject of Pierre Poilievre comes up.

Whether it’s in a discussion about the convoys or about his bid for the leadership, there seems to be a massively disproportionate amount of commentary singing his praises and painting him as a serious, moderate politician with great ideas. Which is more than a little bizarre for a career politician who’s spent that entire career as the Conservative party’s attack dog and troll, and sort of a discount Canadian Ben Shapiro.

An astroturfing campaign in support of Poilievre being run by the MAGA scumbags bankrolling the convoys would seem to explain that phenomenon.

 

[LeafGm]

Jesus.

Police support for this coup d’état is really becoming explicit, isn’t it?

 

[MindzEye]

Jesus.

Well that's a bit on the fucking nose

 

[hockeylover]

 

[lecoqsportif]

Well that's a bit on the fucking nose

He’s toast.

 

[hockeylover]

 

[blkngldbabe]

I hope they jacked the shit out of diesel prices in the area.

 

[manny]

He’s toast.

Chief Sloly is good people. But he’s fucking this response up very badly.

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

Bring in the military and crack some skulls. Lol Which is most likely what they want.

 

[Wayward DP]

Bring in the military and crack some skulls. Lol Which is most likely what they want.

I mean if the protesters were anything but white this would have happened long ago

 

[lecoqsportif]

Chief Sloly is good people. But he’s fucking this response up very badly.

Afraid so. It hasn’t been a good look.

 

[UWHabs]

Chief Sloly is good people. But he’s fucking this response up very badly.

I saw another good twitter thread today which was basically "we never really expected stuff like this could happen here, so we have no preparations for it." And in some ways, you can kind of understand that. Like initially when we heard of the convoy, you assumed it would be a protest, maybe the truckers take over downtown for like a weekend with the protest, and then they go home. A pain, sure, but whatever.

But once they stayed, that's where the problems amplified. Because once they stay, and they dig in, then now it's not like the regular police force has the capacity to move them out, especially with so many of them just having to make sure things don't get any worse.

The issue is now to clear this out, you need to basically call in the army, and it's a military maneuver. Like, honestly, so much of my twitter feed is talking about this like a war zone. Like it's literally talking about "stopping the resupply", "taking things back a street at a time", etc... And yeah, calling in the army to take down a bunch of people with big trucks, massive stockpiles of diesel and fuel, yikes, that's a world of hurt.

Basically, they were too slow at the get-go to control and contain this, and now things are out of control. The fact that the opposition is not only supporting this still, but encouraging it, means it's less likely to die down. And it's not like Ford is going to be quick to help things out, so there's one less level of government who can help clear it out. My bro and his family live just outside of the core area, but they say they constantly have people going down their street since it's one of the few routes that these people use to refuel and stuff. They're certainly close to downtown, but still there's a lot of activity for a residential area with a bunch of kids and stuff around.