You're right, Jodi, about the globalists not understanding basic human inclinations that the truckers had in buckets - compassion, respect, and love for fellow humans.
Glad you mentioned Bruce Pardy, I found his NCI testimony so helpful. Until then, I hadn't understood how the checks and balances on the administrative state have been diminished. It was a real eye opener for me.
btw, I'm grateful to know about the Haultain Institute, another Canadian source of critical thinking.
I really appreciated hearing your impressions of the Convoy, Jodi. As I listened, I felt a flood of emotions. I clearly remembered my elation at seeing the truckers head to Ottawa and then my trepidation, wondering what was going to happen. How it ended was so shocking, probably even more so for those like you bearing witness on the Hill.
So why did it have to end that way with the brute force of the Canadian state coming down on peaceful protestors? It would seem now that those upstart truckers were challenging far more than the Canadian state, although at the time, that's as far as I could imagine given the harsh lockdowns and vaccine mandates imposed on Canadians by all levels of government.
Two years later, I see things a bit differently. Katherine Watt’s legal research exposes the long game: in meticulous detail, she lays out the U.S. legislation passed over the last 40-plus years that facilitates a transfer of power from Congress to the U.S. Director of Health and Human Services and, in turn, the National Security Council and the Department of Defense (DOD) under a declared public health emergency (PHE). According to Watt, a PHE is in effect a National Emergency akin to a declaration of war that suspends the Constitution and enables the DOD to produce countermeasures under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) outside the commercial regulatory framework for investigational drugs.
So if the US declares a National Emergency with all its attendant consequences, what pressures does that put on the U.S.’s military allies and through what mechanisms? The WHO and its regulations, yes. But are there other avenues of pressure that we have yet to learn about that are military in nature? Was Trudeau encouraged or pressured to display a show of force? I’m curious because I've come to see Trudeau and the Emergencies Act as a surrogate for the U.S. military-industrial-bio-pharmaceutical complex, or whatever one wants to call it.
Thanks so much for listening, Margaret! Much enjoyed the discussion with Marco myself.
I think you're correct that the truckers challenged far more than the Canadian state, as evinced in the reception of their resistance across the world--before they even arrived in Ottawa. They shook the entire globalist strategy to its core in a way that had not been expected.
Thank you for informing me about Katherine Watt's research, I hadn't known about it. What I do know is that transfer of power from legislature to executive has been going on in multiple sectors in the US, not just health. It's the growth of the same administrative state that Bruce Pardy referred to in his NCI talk. I recall studying this process in the mid-90s at grad school in the US in a course on the presidency.
One idea I don't share (maybe from having worked in/with government in Ottawa) is that these bureaucrats are masterminds capable of pulling off multi-generational coups. It suffices to be "clever" with a morally shady bent and come into these institutions, which "discover" their misanthropist strategies as they go along). And there is also SO much about human beings that our would-be overlords DON'T know, it's almost funny. Case in point: the Convoy.
Thanks for the plug of the podcast. We do need more indeed. People wishing to share their stories and experiences of the Convoy should contact me. As the license plates in La Belle Province remind us, it is important to remember important things.
I have not thought of Gene Porter in a while. Thanks for the reminder. I only met him twice, and once was in a undergrad classroom when he came to Concordia to recruit students for his grad program. He and my Modern Political Thought prof., James Moore, were good friends. I almost went to Saskatoon, as I think I've told you, because of him.
Worth the trip, it would have been. He was a stellar teacher who helped students "put muscles in the cerebrum," as he put it, over decades. Jovial--but did not suffer fools. Does not, I should say! I heard from Dr. Porter in 2021 on an article I'd sent him a long time before. He and his wife had a discussion group that met every few weeks in the Ozarks.
I hope you get some contacts! And regardless, thank you for the conversation.
You're right, Jodi, about the globalists not understanding basic human inclinations that the truckers had in buckets - compassion, respect, and love for fellow humans.
Glad you mentioned Bruce Pardy, I found his NCI testimony so helpful. Until then, I hadn't understood how the checks and balances on the administrative state have been diminished. It was a real eye opener for me.
btw, I'm grateful to know about the Haultain Institute, another Canadian source of critical thinking.
I really appreciated hearing your impressions of the Convoy, Jodi. As I listened, I felt a flood of emotions. I clearly remembered my elation at seeing the truckers head to Ottawa and then my trepidation, wondering what was going to happen. How it ended was so shocking, probably even more so for those like you bearing witness on the Hill.
So why did it have to end that way with the brute force of the Canadian state coming down on peaceful protestors? It would seem now that those upstart truckers were challenging far more than the Canadian state, although at the time, that's as far as I could imagine given the harsh lockdowns and vaccine mandates imposed on Canadians by all levels of government.
Two years later, I see things a bit differently. Katherine Watt’s legal research exposes the long game: in meticulous detail, she lays out the U.S. legislation passed over the last 40-plus years that facilitates a transfer of power from Congress to the U.S. Director of Health and Human Services and, in turn, the National Security Council and the Department of Defense (DOD) under a declared public health emergency (PHE). According to Watt, a PHE is in effect a National Emergency akin to a declaration of war that suspends the Constitution and enables the DOD to produce countermeasures under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) outside the commercial regulatory framework for investigational drugs.
So if the US declares a National Emergency with all its attendant consequences, what pressures does that put on the U.S.’s military allies and through what mechanisms? The WHO and its regulations, yes. But are there other avenues of pressure that we have yet to learn about that are military in nature? Was Trudeau encouraged or pressured to display a show of force? I’m curious because I've come to see Trudeau and the Emergencies Act as a surrogate for the U.S. military-industrial-bio-pharmaceutical complex, or whatever one wants to call it.
Thanks so much for listening, Margaret! Much enjoyed the discussion with Marco myself.
I think you're correct that the truckers challenged far more than the Canadian state, as evinced in the reception of their resistance across the world--before they even arrived in Ottawa. They shook the entire globalist strategy to its core in a way that had not been expected.
Thank you for informing me about Katherine Watt's research, I hadn't known about it. What I do know is that transfer of power from legislature to executive has been going on in multiple sectors in the US, not just health. It's the growth of the same administrative state that Bruce Pardy referred to in his NCI talk. I recall studying this process in the mid-90s at grad school in the US in a course on the presidency.
One idea I don't share (maybe from having worked in/with government in Ottawa) is that these bureaucrats are masterminds capable of pulling off multi-generational coups. It suffices to be "clever" with a morally shady bent and come into these institutions, which "discover" their misanthropist strategies as they go along). And there is also SO much about human beings that our would-be overlords DON'T know, it's almost funny. Case in point: the Convoy.
Thanks for the plug of the podcast. We do need more indeed. People wishing to share their stories and experiences of the Convoy should contact me. As the license plates in La Belle Province remind us, it is important to remember important things.
I have not thought of Gene Porter in a while. Thanks for the reminder. I only met him twice, and once was in a undergrad classroom when he came to Concordia to recruit students for his grad program. He and my Modern Political Thought prof., James Moore, were good friends. I almost went to Saskatoon, as I think I've told you, because of him.
Worth the trip, it would have been. He was a stellar teacher who helped students "put muscles in the cerebrum," as he put it, over decades. Jovial--but did not suffer fools. Does not, I should say! I heard from Dr. Porter in 2021 on an article I'd sent him a long time before. He and his wife had a discussion group that met every few weeks in the Ozarks.
I hope you get some contacts! And regardless, thank you for the conversation.