Liberal MP Joël Lightbound lightly criticized some of the stances of Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday. Within hours, the peer and party pressure upon him led to his removal from his position as Chairman of the Quebec caucus.
Lightbound encouraged the Trudeau government to provide targets to lifting restrictions; he was not implying that public health measures should be lifted immediately. He also committed the cardinal sin against COVID by asking for epidemiological data behind restrictions to be published, so people can see the information determining what measures need to be in place.
Transparency is against the interests of those within the government who weaponize covid fear. The Liberal MP also spoke about the ongoing anti-mandate protests that started as a response to cross-border vaccine mandates, saying that messaging amid the demonstrations is dividing Canadians. WATCH:
“I fear that this politicization of the pandemic risks undermining the public’s trust in our public health institutions. This is not a risk we ought to be taking lightly. I have enough respect for my fellow Canadians not to engage in these easy and absurd labels.”
The response was immediate and severe. There can be no dissent from leftist orthodoxy.
Covid is pretty much over. And the libs cannot digest that…the lifecycle of the virus is nearing its end, so now desperation, not the virus, is in the air.
This guy committed a cardinal sin against corporate life…ya don’t criticize it or the leader of it.
They don’t care about COVID.
They care about losing “emergency powers” from their leaders to usurp individual rights. They are about losing the sense of personal power they get from attacking and shaming people who disagree with in public. And last but certainly not least, they are tantalizinly close to seeing their ultimate fever dream come true…….and that’s seeing the full force of a federal government and intel communities used against their political opponents. Their continued masking and pushing the vaxx is just them playing along like actors in a script.
China Joe is doing the exact same thing here in the USA. That report by the DHS saying that anybody speaking out against the Gov. is a terrorist. They want no opposition.
It’s like The Savings and Loan Crisis in the 1980s. All those years the banks had the cameras pointed in the wrong direction!
stand by..China will transport a stronger varient to US when our Olympic team returns just before China invades Taiwan…Russia and Ukraine are a diversion…
our Olympic athletes SHOULD be put in quarantine upon their return…there is a reported new variant on the loose in China already so they need isolated and let it burn out
Yes, Omicron Covid is clearing out of Canada just as it is from the United States. Logic would say that they can cool it with the “mitigation”. Yet Turdeau doesn’t want to…
Key question is WHY? Why won’t they drop a mandate for a vaccine that doesn’t work on a virus that’s fading away!
We all know the answer. It’s not about the virus it about control. Totalitarian control.
Truth is what we say it is. Jump this high or don’t eat or work. “Vax” your child even though it may kill them. You aren’t allowed to drive because you’ve already driven 10 miles today, we must save the planet.
It was shared that the idiot has ordered 10 shots for every Canadian..maybe that is what is being protested also.
March to the drumbeat or face the consequences!
Surprises me this communist didn’t understand his orders first time around.
Looks like Joel was actually a true believer! stupid – stupid man…
I appreciate his standing up . . .
“Welcome to the fight, now I know our side will win.”
Citizens of the world are getting organized against the vaccine mandates. Israel and Europe each are scheduling a Freedom Convoy:
Here is Europe’s message:
Won’t it be something that a bunch of dumb uneducated Truckers (what the elite think of them) are going to flip the world on its head.
It wouldn’t be the first time. Many elite are pylons, sitting in judgement and expecting everyone to respect their space. Once they have been outmaneuvered, they settle down like domesticated animals and chew their cud.
Cud-chewing domestic animals generally are slaughtered. Just sayin’.
JUSTICE
The truckers control it all, they control the food supply.
The elites should never, ever, ever have “ poked the bear “.
Where are the Americans?
Donating and later, organizing our own convoy. I understand that the US truckers don’t want to upstage their Canadian brethren so they are holding off starting their run for a while to let the Canadian truckers have their glory day in the hot sun.
Remember the woman who reminded Trudunce that traitors are hanged? That would make great TV!
Cookie Post!
Now we’re beginning to see the real, and original meaning of politically incorrect. Only, in the old days, those who were non-PC had a pattern of never being seen again. Same old, same old.
We all watch the events in Canada, since they are the heroes leading this fight against tyranny. They highlight how most people share the same goals. They want to be free, willing to work for what they have, but then want to be left alone. I don’t believe that principle changes from continent to continent. The Canadian Freedom-Fighters are sacrificing for all of us. The “elites” (spit) may or may not recognize that, but the rest of us do. Pause, reflect, and pray. The truckers humble me. They need our support, and will receive it.
Well said, Enough.
The Canadian truckers have won a place in history and in our hearts.
Off to the gulag!!!!
Again, to any Canadian with common sense this could immediately bring another million or so over to the Conservative side as what appears to be any questioning of the left is considered out of bounds and especially if one asks to see hard data to support their wild claims.
This is turning into the Little Dutch Boy as too many lies I mean holes are popping up in the dyke for the left to keep plugged.
Whatever you do… don’t ask for the data.
Nor even asking for a friend?
Especially when asking for friends…….
Massive red pill!
Bogeyfree: Make that the Canadian side, rather than just the Conservative side. The liberals in Canada renounced their allegiance to Canada a long time ago. The liberals are allied with the One Worlders who see Canada as nothing more than a source of raw materials, compliant labor, and back doors to the the last great holdout, the U.S.
Need a published list, naming the tactical goon squad “just doing their job”… confronting the peaceful truckers…
These confrontations are designed to provoke violence
What he is really saying there is what many DIMs here are saying:
WE ARE LOSING.
WE ARE IN SHELLACKING TERRITORY.
He knows, in his heart, his bones, and in his very skin….
And if i may say so, it’s what your truly wanted all along, and why Trump created such a stir. The little progs aren’t THAT difficult to beat, but unlike the pathetic rino quislings, you just have to fight back!
The “pathetic Rino quislings” are the real enemy.
It is ONLY thru their enabling, thatvthe Dems make any progress, in marching us to tyranny.
When being mugged, don’t get so distracted by the thug standingvin front of you, demanding your wallet, that you are unaware of his partner, sneaking up behind to stab you in the back.
Pelosi and Schumer are NOTHING without McConnell and McCarthy, consistently stabbing us in the back.
And what happened the last time the dims knew they were losing? Or when they had no answer to a strong America with a strong economy?
The CCP released the virus on us and the DNC took all branches of government, by hook or by crook.
My belief that this ends peacefully no matter how many truckers in all countries get involved is seriously waning as evidenced by the DHS statement.
Food for thought…
Sue every dammed school that doesn’t comply. Hold them criminally accountable if they do not uphold the court’s ruling.
In case anyone missed it, the unions and school boards have not paid much attention to court rulings. They continue to demonize any child not wearing a mask.
this is war so SUE
They had a court rule against Pritzker’s school mandate in IL and he said he will still enforce it….taking cues from the “Big Guy” I guess
Cut the money cow
The psychos of Loudon will continue on, they truly believe they own the children.
Yet Saskatchewan is allowed to end the mandates? Why? I smell something suspicious about one province being allowed to end the mandates. Saskatchewan is in the heart of Canada, it produces probably most of the meat and grain for the country. That’s also where a lot of oil is produced. It’s geographically, economically and strategically important to keep the populace from revolting. The Achilles heel of Canada, so to speak. Shut down those east-west highways passing through Saskatchewan. Now.
Really not that smart to piss off the farmers that grow your food. Nice crops you have grown there. Be a real shame if grain silos were contaminated, or heard somewhere those silos are really flammable
Health is a provincial jurisdiction. It is not about being “allowed”. The people of Saskatchewan elected the Saskatchewan Party to look after the peoples’ interests. Premier Moe measured the mood and made the decision.
It’s a bit of an accident I imagine, that Pr. Moe is more reasonable than Pr. Kenney.
This man stood up against tyranny. He may have done so for political expediency or principles. It doesn’t really matter in the end. It is out there. He has repented, and unwittingly or not thrown sand.
His post was quite terse.
Hope soon he comes out swinging.
Clarification: By swinging I mean fighting for the truth. (Not swinging by a rope.)
It is nice to see someone on this forum who doesn’t automatically look a gift horse in the mouth. I am glad he did it for any reason.
Thank you.
His almost immediate removal is the main reason not many people have much faith in the liberals views. They are never open for discussion, nor are they open for another opinion. I was always trained to listen to both sides before making up my mind…….that is what most people do, doesn’t make any difference which side of the fence you happen to be standing on really. Sort of like getting a shock from an electric fence; you are gonna get the shock, whichever side you are touching it from…..even my children learned that is little kids.
I laugh at your analogy. Our sweet daughter, when she was a toddler, was fascinated by our woodburner. We watched her as closely as possible, but she was simply drawn to the flames. Finally, as difficult as it was, I saw her approaching the hot stove and let her find out that it was HOT!!! She never again went anywhere near the woodburner.
That only serves to cement the notion that the Quebec caucus is a bunch of communists.
Apparently “Je me souviens” must mean they remember how great it was to be Stalin..
There are two ways to interpret Je me souviens, as most know. The “I remember” one as you indicated “I remember Stalin, and he was lit!” There is the other meaning, which Lightbound appears to be tapping into: “I will not forget” in “I will not forget the fight to liberate Quebec and retain her French heritage. I will not forget the meaning of the word Liberte’. I will NOT forget!”
Oh yes I am quite aware of the original intent of the man behind Quebec’s motto. However, it is quite apparent that the politicians HAVE forgotten, given their departure from supporting true Liberté and their fealty to increasingly heavy-handed central government control.
Say one thing then pretend the rest of it is fine. He should suffer the same fate as the rest.
“I will speak for freedom. Following my speech for freedom I will voluntarily remove myself from power. I will not use my power to continue speaking for freedom.”
They all just walk out of office then go on talk shows as if that’s going to DO anything.
He was removed. He did not walk away.
When all is said and done, I think this product idea could be a big seller…
Front: “I survived the Great Reset…”
Back: “… and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.”
The back should be “And all I have left is this stupid t-shirt”
Add a few bullet holes in the back and it’s golden.
Back: “And I own nothing and I am happy! Just ask @KlausSchwab.”
Mr. Lightbound should run for PM of Canada. He has articulated better than any Conservative leader I’ve seen in either the US or Canada!
Sundance asked not too long ago, who in Canada could represent the middle of that country. Well, Mr. Lightbound has expressed a very sober and unifying message here!
“More humanist approach, with more reason and hope.” – Mr. Lightbound
Bravo!
Mr. Lightbound makes many good points, but he either doesn’t understand that the pandemic is merely a cover story for the globalists’ grab for control, or else he is afraid to say it out loud.
What he did say, hasn’t been said out loud by anyone in Canada that I know of! I have to give him great credit for his remarks which has gotten him cancelled but the people are with him. He’s one to watch
Unfortunately he joined with nonsense about racists flags and right wingers from America. So, in other words Canadians are not capable to of standing up to the bullies by themselves? They need Americans to egg them on? Just ridiculous. The last part of his speech was good but I am disappointed that he accepted and repeated the lies.
Here’s an interesting fact. I worked with a lady who was interning at the Florida Public Service Commission in the mid-1990s from a former Eastern Block country, Slovakia, IIRC. She saw a Confederate battle flag display on a colleague’s desk (they weren’t considered evil and racist back then) and pointed to the battle flag and said very clearly: “This is the flag of a people who wish to be free.” Many former Eastern Block nations used the Confederate Constitution as the basis for their nations’ constitutions rather than the U.S. Constitution.
“Humanist” is a red flag word for me.
What’s sad is that Lightbound, as a Liberal MP, humbly offered a respectful, well-reasoned blueprint that Trudeau could have used to resolve this whole thing without violence or losing face. It would have been a “come let us reason together” moment that could have brought the country together — and Trudeau could have endorsed it since it came from a liberal. Instead, this poor guy was immediately hounded to step down. Pathetic.
over the target do not let up
Things are getting scary it looks like Government will push violence and kill to save a life from COVID or Climate change, it is now just a power struggle that won’t end pretty.
The governments have laid the cards on the table for all to see. There is no going back for them, it is all or nothing.
Should they end up with nothing, destruction, devastation, and outrageously hi inflation will the the trail they leave behind.
In Ottawa on Saturday and Sunday I was shocked at the French turnout.
This will not be good for liberals from Quebec. They will be infuriated. Trudeau just ticked off the wrong group of people.
Great news. Trudeau is his own worst enemy.
DD
Many people think Maxime Bernier is the “natural” leader of Canada…
Dan: Your discussion made me think of one example.
Anyone here watch “Letterkenny”? The town redneck farmers decide to
go on a fishing trip to Quebec and wind up having a flaming war across the
lake with a bunch of french Canadians, who were their mirror image. Just in
blue flannel, instead of red.
Forgot if they got into a fist fight or not ( the Ottawans defamed Celine Deion),
but they made up after wards and bonded over a few beers.
Working class is working class despite any language barriers. It’s just up to
us to show the similarities, and win the ones sitting on the fence to our side.
I, too have been picking up on, from afar, that residents OF Quebec, many of them, support the convoy.
Perhaps they, too have had the election process gamed, and those “elected representatives of Quebec” do not actually represent the residents of Quebec?
I have visited some of the backwoods towns far from Montreal and Quebec City. I can’t believe the gentle farmers on their rangs tapping their maples and herding their cows want Marxism. They speak as normal human beings, concerned with weather and pestilence and whether their team’s going to win at hockey. The most memorable little town was Plessiville–self proclaimed as “La Capitale mondiale de l’erable.” World Sugar Maple Capital.
The Uniparty MUST keep french canada onside. When they revolt, buddy, it’s over for that coalition. Their panic is obvious here, and more will come. Let’s see what happens.
Remember when we would call out bullies?
Trudeau is a black face wearing bully who hides when confronted by protesters.
A young leader so detached from his citizenry?
Where has he been physically and mentally to be so far astray? On the world stage instead of the Canadian stage?
He better watch it as those truckers could easily turn their protest into a strike!!
And what’s the privileged, worldly boy gonna do then??
Or did he just have enough of their bullshit and knew what he would say would make his life a miserable hell with the other liberal leftist he works with.
Data and science to actually honestly reflect the data to support further lockdowns as Europe goes one by one Endemic… Good luck with that and he knew it.
Wise leftist will attempt to get ahead of the curve and hope citizens won’t go far back on freedom loss as they shift and support dropping restrictions that some never imposed and did much better overall.
Maybe he is just getting ahead of the curve and letting it be known he was with the ” French Resistance ” so as not to get his head chopped when the dust settles on this crapfest.
It’s completely lost on those who forced Lightbound out that their action strengthened his message a hundred fold.
I thought he left willingly, to apply even “more” pressure.
The article says “the peer and party pressure upon him led to his removal”
The usual boilerplate ‘resignation’ language does not suggest a voluntary departure to me, just decorum.
You mean like wants to spend more time w/family?
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Read their message on their donation of $18k.
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Their tractors are sexy. 😉
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I just donated, AGAIN and as a prank, I wrote in Marco Mendocino as the name I wanted it to show as, in the “credit banner”, while putting my name in the regular blank, and NOT checking the “don’t show my name” box, which is why the “show my donation under this name” box comes down
Well, sonofab*tch, THERE it is, “thank you to Marco Mendocino (the minister of Security in Canada, lol) right there in the banner.
And within 2 minutes I get an automated message from my credit union, wanting to confirm my transaction was legit; THAT transaction.
Uh oh, looks like I will be getting a visit from the mounties, or the Fibbies, no doubt at 4 am in full swat gear!
For a PRANK; Absolutely NO sense of HUMOR,…oh, well!
The Joke by Milan Kundera
I doubled my donation that GOFUKTHEMSELVES reimbursed plus the ChargeBack fee!
I stole TJ’s quote as a comment on GIVESENDGO’s donate page but I really don’t think he would object in this particular instance.
“There is no justification for taking away individuals’ freedom in the guise of public safety.” – Thomas Jefferson
HONK! HONK!
Well that just shows they will stop at NOTHING to force their will on the people of Canada.
How much does this suggest about this country?
For starters, if you don’t live in a “free state” plan to move starting now.
Interesting theory from Jesse Kelly that agrees with you –
Yes. They are talking about doing that.
I’ve mentioned this on this site before, when the supply chain problems started biting and they started blaming ‘Big Ag’ or Big Meat’ or whoever they thought might move the needle. They *want* hard times to use as an excuse for nationalization.
And after nationalization? Rationing. And ‘healthy’, ‘earth sustainable’ rationing. No more meat and milk and butter for the proles. You will eat your daily bowl of gruel (and no more than one) and like it!
Great. I’m going carnivore for health and this shizz starts. Guess I need to get a hawk trained up for squirrel hunting. Lord knows, I have enough squirrels on my place to feed an army of carnivores.
Just how long will these major corporations put up with declining revenues by having all of the cross borders shut down and Truckers not delivering any goods. They will eventually force SOYBOY out on his ass.
Does anybody know if former Canadian PM’s get security for the rest of their lives like US Presidents?
This is their problem: The governments committed major crimes. They know we know. They will never back down from their positions. Backing down means they go to jail. However, in the end they cannot win. Everyday more people wake up, and are getting bolder in their convictions.
Joel, You must be new here!
O Canada!
Oh, Canada! 🤦♂️
Lefties eviscerate anyone that disagrees with their policy. We can’t even boot Kinzinger and Cheney from the party.
Never in the History of the World has there been an uprising of the People like this and it’s all because of the New World Order trying to take over.
They jumped the shark, the People want their sovereignty, we do not want to be ruled by the UN
The violence as he rightly states is the “violence of lockdowns”. The tyrants do not care about the “quiet, discreet suffering” they have created because they are not suffering. They have lost nothing. They are in charge. You do as they say. PERIOD.
Thank you sir!!!
The Globalist want us saying “Thank you, sir! May I have another?!”
How does Canada get out of this? Please God be with them.
Let them be as Scotland of old, the land of the eternal “NO!”
Something strange anyway. I’m seeing something strange with the like numbers also.
Something strange anyway. I’m seeing something strange with the like numbers also.
This is interesting. Hamilton transit union is going to fight the vaccine mandates
Join the truckers. They should defeat the soft spoken dictator.
His political career or likely any career is over. He had to know that, I give him credit, it would have been easy to remain silent.
Maybe there is a new party in the works. You never know…
Au contrair, he may have found his calling!
People rally to authenticity
But he will be able to look at himself in the mirror. The police as flunkies for their masters’ bidding? Not so much.
And if he has a family and children, he will be able to hold himself upright and look them in the eye, knowing he spoke the truth and has set them a good example. There is no price that can be put on either of those.
Leftists eat their own. How many thousands of Communist Russian military officers did Stalin have lined up against the wall and executed by firing squad!
I haven’t read the comments yet so don’t know if this was covered. But it is a provincial election year in Quebec. Though this guy is a federal member of parliament, Quebecers are very tuned into every political nuance involving their province.
Their Premier Legault had one of his ministers doubling doe on the mandates, basically forever. Supposedly to deal with any hypothetical ‘wave’ that they deem real. I’m not sure that’s a winning proposition. However, with past experience behind the Quebec curtain, public opinion could go either way.
French radio talk shows, TV, and tabloid print media have always been big there. Insulating the Francophone populace from the outside world. The internet now extends things.
Even though most are bilingual, their comfort zone is still through their version of the MSM. Who have always been overtly political. “Maitre chez nous” or “masters in our own house” has been a political slogan for decades.
So when a Quebec parliamentarian goes against the consensus, people pay attention.
Unfortunately he will quickly be demonized and ostracized. But hopefully a small crack will grow into bigger dissension. And he must represent others too, which is another thing to watch for.
Maybe they will wake up and realize that they are NOT masters of anything, the WEF and its little b!tch Casteaux are.
How many Canadian citizens even know this happened? 10%?
What I saw of Canada when I was living in Vancouver was a pretty information savvy population. I don’t know the rest of the country, but 10%?
The Quebec Minister of Health said today that the Vaxx Pass and Mask Mandate are here to stay.
And the people say “We’ll see about that.”
People should read “The Ordinary Men”. How oridinary became the executioner of Hitler regime. This event is bound to repeat again.
It was a fantastic speech with few exceptions. Perhaps the conservatives should hire him. 😉
It’s refreshing to hear a liberal politician who hews toward the classical expression of liberalism, which used to mean freedom and individual choice. Of course such a voice is anathema to the Globalist Left oligarchic mindset that’s come to dominate that side of the aisle now, but I expect that many, who lack the courage of this leader, entertain similar thoughts. What’s happening today represents a lurch toward totalitarianism that is opening the eyes of people previously asleep and turning forming adversaries into allies.
The Spirit of God, in his eternal wisdom, is fostering an awakening and people will have the opportunity to see and choose. Let’s pray that they, like Mr. Lightbound here, come to see and understand what is really happening.
Make Chinada Canada again?
It looks like an Ottawa police staff sergeant has pulled the “pin”…
They will blame food shortages on truckers….but everybody knows china turned off the taps, when they cut off pharmaceuticals the fun really begins.
Words from a police officer supporting the Freedom Convoy: