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Mar 24, 2023·edited Mar 26, 2023

The art of the con, normally reserved for snake oil salesmen and the like, has already been tactfully applied to the Canadian “willing public”. Canadians do not wish to be informed that they are anything but conciliators, peace keepers and ultra-civilized purveyors of justice in the world. To be painted as naive and willing accomplices to the most repressive dictatorship in history won’t do. Canadians will be overjoyed to find they’ve done nothing wrong and that there is nothing-to-see-here and “we’ve got your back”.

Yes I believe the die is cast and this as in all the other Trudeau scandals will simply be added to the distractive pile. But, I really hope I’m wrong and Canadians will wake up from this nightmare and alter our trajectory away from Xi’s regime. Thank you Terry for being that persistent alarm clock!!

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Call me cynical but I don't think the solution is going to be found at the ballot box. The current system is entirely rigged. Plus, if voting could change anything they'd make it illegal.

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The reason there are so many Florida Man stories is that Florida has one of the oldest and most expansive sunshine laws in the world. Any police report that is filed is available to the public. You don't even need to request them. They're online.

I'm convinced the opposite phenomenon occurs in Canada. We trust in government, because we don't know what goes on in government. If there was more transparency there'd be less trust and more demands for transparency.

To say the leaks are causing distrust in intuitions is wrong about both the cause and effect. The distrust is not caused by the leaks, but their substance. And the distrust is not in the institutions, but in those running the institutions. We have not lost faith in democracy, but in the government's willingness to defend our democracy. A principle is only a principle if you hold to it even when it is against your immediate self-interest.

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Ditch Johnston. I nominate Glavin for Special Independent Rapporteur. If that doesn't fly, then at least I hope David Johnston is a regular reader of this newsletter.

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Thanks Terry. I can’t even voice how disappointed on the outcome I am. It seems to end this way all the time. I have zero faith in Canadians doing anything about anything. Their complacency is the very reason Canada is such an easy target. We are already as close as they come to being a communist country and if it’s left to the people of Canada to change the trajectory, there is no hope in changing anything.

All one has to do is look at how Canadians reacted to the protest in Ottawa. They Blamed the convoy and cheered on Trudeau. The protesters were fighting for what was stolen from them. Their freedom, jobs, and life. Canadians cheered for a tyrannical Government over those trying to stop the Corrosive and unnecessary theft of rights and freedoms and the governments massive over reach. Then there was what the government did to those who dared protest their tyranny as they froze bank accounts, property, and sent in the Jack boots. Canadians lapped this up, especially in Ottawa, where the ruling class are. Many Canadians to this day think what the government of this country did was right, regardless of the truth and the facts presented at the commission. Canada is already a Communist Country as the people have quietly become far to afraid of freedom and actually cheer on tyranny of the Government. There is another word for what they are but those who do not stand up for right over wrong, won’t stand up for anything at all. So we all shall stay prisoners in their making of a communist hell.

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I like the "comprador" term, but prefer the Comintern phrase for Western politicians aiding the Soviets while under the delusion they were advancing world emancipation: " useful idiots."

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The photo is priceless. Thank you Terry for all your hard work

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What has to happen is that all the facts need to be made known to the Canadian public and let them make their decisions individually and collectively. They can be trusted to come to the right solution if they are given the facts. The issue is that the Canadian main stream media and the paid Liberal party media suppress and don't disclose the pertinent facts. That is why independent journalism is co important.

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Canadians are the frog in the metaphoric pot of water and it's starting to get extremely hot.

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I'm praying for you guys. Some divine intervention can't hurt, especially when you've got Trudeau and his lackeys blabbering to friendly media outlets to distract from those people wheeling that Trojan horse thru the gates .

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Some time ago, I heard a Canadian academic interviewed about Canadian attitudes. He told a story about an American professor who’d done a study on Canadians many years before that. He concluded that Canadians were a naive and servile people who didn’t understand the implications of what was happening around them. At the time, the Canadian academic was offended and irate. But in the interview, he’d changed his mind. He felt that what the American professor said was correct. I agree with him. Canadians don’t understand. Or maybe it’s the academic and I who are wrong.

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Superb work! Thank you. I remember feeling proud of our country for establishing a relationship with China back in the day. It seemed then and it still seems to make sense that the world will be a better place if we all work in collaboration rather than isolation. So I’m thinking that all these Canadian politicians who snuggled up with China and continue to do so are motivated by the best interests of Canada. Perhaps they are preparing the ground for a relationship with China after the current despotic undemocratic regime is replaced. The flip side of course is that our political and corporate leadership has developed an unhealthy sycophancy when it comes to China as evidenced by our tepid response to the two Michael’s horrific incarceration, treatment of minorities, squashing of democracy in Hong Kong and its renewed support of the Russian enterprise. Bottom line is the Canadian ruling class remains, like the country, kind of naive, kind of full of itself and rather an embarrassment really… kind of like the people who elect and support them,

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As Chinese drones are shipped to Russia, I expect all good Liberals will join Russian forces to “denazify” Ukraine.

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Thanks Terry for your diligence and sense of duty. All Canadians are in your debt. It would appear the powers that be think the "rubes" can be browbeaten, condescended to and impugned without any type of accountability. I sincerely hope the authorities get to the bottom of this.

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"Fortified by family connexion, and the common interest felt by all who held, and all who desired, subordinate offices, that party was thus erected into a solid and permanent power, controlled by no responsibility, subject to no serious change, exercising over the whole government of the Province an authority utterly independent of the people and its representatives, and possessing the only means of influencing either the Government at home, or the colonial representative of the Crown."

Lord Durham's Report, 1838

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I believe that we need to continue sharing information. I have been GUILTY of plagerism. My high school English teacher would be ballistic. But what Andrew Burgess said. PEOPLE NEED TOGET INFORMED & MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. We can raise all kinds of money, print millions of pamphlets but if the information does not reach through the lemonaide forehead than what is one to do. So yes I will share information and i may be hurt in some way. I am ok with that. I want to contribute. I read & subscribe to good writers. There are many people that comment . There are many good voices & words. People that are never heard. People that could pierce some of those dull minds.

I never belonged to a political party until Justin Trudeau became PM. I was enraged. Since then much of my semi-retired life involves my fight against the Liberals & NDP.

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