On the bright side, not every tyrant is having it his way

Trudeau revokes his Emergency Powers Act” after national and international uproar. Because I’ve never paid any attention whatsoever to Canada until the Truckers Rebellion, I had no idea of its government structure. I’d assumed that they usually put a communist on top, with caribou and polar bears making up the legislative body, but no: there’s a lower House of Commons, and a more powerful Senate above it, with not a single ungulate or ursa among them. It turns out, only the House of Commons approved Trudeau’s power grab last week, and word got to Castro’s son that the Senate was going to reject it.

So he caved, and the RCMP has been advised that they should stop seizing peoples’ bank accounts, among other acts of oppression.

Of interest, perhaps, is that for all of our northern Papa Doc’s shrieking about insurgency, revolt and insurrection, not a single protester has been charge with a crime more serious than “conspiracy to commit mischief”. I know as little about Canadian law as I do its government structure, but that doesn’t sound like a crime that would constitute a national emergency justifying the revocation of the citizens’ rights of free speech and assembly (assuming there are such rights in the barrens).