By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--February 16, 2020
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What was Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing when greeting Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Munich with a handshake that some people saw as bowing and scraping?
Standing Down. Standing Down from the non-indigenous activists shutting down Canada’s entire railway system—passenger and freight, by conveniently being out of the county.
What was Trudeau doing in Africa? Same answer: Standing Down by being MIA during a national crisis.BREAKING UPDATE: #ShutDownCanada EXPANDS BLOCKADE of 2nd Largest Rail Classification Yard in Toronto in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en “All train lines going Westward to Hamilton, London, New York & Michigan were blocked at 10am. As of 1pm, all North & North-West traffic to Sudbury, North Bay, BC and on to Wisconsin has also been blocked. “WHEN: As of 10am, Saturday, February 15, 2020. Action expanded at 1pm. “Toronto / Tkaronto: Supporters of Wet'suwet'en have blockaded trains leaving in and out of Macmillan Yard, Canada's 2nd largest rail classification yard in solidarity with Wet’suwe’ten land defenders, who are being forced off their land by the RCMP to make way for the Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline project.
“While CN has already shut down railways lines in Eastern Canada, this blockade initiated today shuts down railway lines going west and north-west. The Wet'suwet'en are not protestors, and neither are we - we are taking direction from Indigenous Natural Law, which has governed these lands for generations before Canada was formed. "A militarized police raid on Indigenous Wet'suwet'en living peacefully on their own territories is intolerable, and unacceptable. “Enough is enough, the whole country is waking up to the fact that there can be no business as usual when sacred lands are being invaded and Indigenous self-determination compromised. Our actions are in support of Anuc ‘nu’at’en (Wet’suwet’en law), which is the sole law that applies to the territories invaded by the RCMP, Canada has no legal jurisdiction, and no moral right. RCMP off the Yintah!"No mention in any of their media releases that the Wet'suwet'en people are 85% in support of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Not everyone is falling for the propaganda behind the outrageous railway blockade: Rex Murphy: ‘Climate zealots have taken Canada hostage. And our PM is missing in action’ (Rex Murphy, National Post, Feb. 13, 2020)
“I’m familiar with absentee landlords from grade school history. The concept of an absentee prime minister is a brand new one to me. “Justin Trudeau has been a week now waltzing around Africa while, day by day back here in carbon-tax Canada, the country is seizing up. For the same past seven days apparently, Canada has been under the administration of what the media insists on calling “anti-pipeline” forces.
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“Anti-pipeline is far too narrow. These are the anti-industry, anti-energy, anti-Alberta, climate-change save-the-worlders who have been harassing the country for years. “The difference is in the past week they’ve upped their opposition, and from one end of the country to another decided to muscle their way to a victory by a storm of blockades, protests, traffic obstruction, and in the case of Victoria, B.C., actually shutting down the people’s legislature. “Meantime PM I’m-out-of-the-country-again sends bulletins of feeble non-assurance from sunny Senegal. And such bulletins they are. “PM urges quick resolution …” As VIA Rail shuts down, and his own deputy prime minister is denied entrance to the Halifax mayor’s office, the globe-trotter PM “urges quick resolution.” “What’s to resolve? “Watching the police forces of the nation stand by in perfect impotence before eco-radicals? Making a joke out of the so-highly-touted rule of law while the country seizes up under pressure from zealots?"It is an old and venerable saying: they who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. That is so appropriate for climate-change protest politics. By insisting for their full tenure that “climate change” is “Canada’s No. 1 priority” the Liberal government has stimulated the current rage that is seizing the country." Meanwhile, while Mexico and the USA have officially signed up for the USMCA, Trudeau-led Canada is still dragging its heels.
“Governor General of Canada Julie Payette declared the dissolution of the 42nd Canadian Parliament on September 11, 2019 and formally issued the writs of election for the 2019 Canadian federal election. All pending legislation is scrapped upon any dissolution of Parliament, meaning that the USMCA implementation bill will need to be re-introduced in the 43rd Canadian Parliament which began on December 5, 2019. “On January 29, 2020, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Last Chrystia Freeland introduced a USMCA implementation bill in the House of Commons. On February 6, it passed the second reading of the House of Commons and was referred to the Standing Committee on International Trade.With Trudeau reelected in weak minority status with no mandate from the Canadian people, will his government lose a non-confidence vote, forcing another Canadian general election? Is Trudeau playing a delaying game on the USMCA until after the 2020 presidential election, in an effort to try to deny President Donald Trump reelection? Meanwhile, the sad truth for Canadians is that their prime minister has come on like an anti-America activist ever since his election, and seems to be in complete denial that he was only reelected in minority status. Now that Trudeau’s climate zealot surrogates are standing in protest against the nation’s entire railway system, he’s Standing Down by being MIA in other countries.
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