Canadian Deputy PM Laughs About Her Totalitarianism in Disturbing Display – Opinion

Canada’s crackdown on Freedom Convoy is underway, both in Canada and the financial sector. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that he will implement the Emergencies Act against truckers and terrorists. This includes the power to immediately freeze accounts in Canadian banks without any due process.

The first signs of this are being seen, according to Deputy PM Chrystia, who thought it was just funny. That’s before she started wildly twitching, which seems to be a thing she does often. Perhaps that’s part of a medical condition, but it appears Freeland just has panic attacks when speaking in public.

Deputy PM Chrystia freeland: “The names and addresses of individuals as well entities and crypto wallets were shared by the RCMP and financial institutions. Accounts are now frozen, and there will be more.” pic.twitter.com/iA69DbRJl1

— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) February 17, 2022

It is both disturbing because she speaks with such flippancy about the acts and because they are so totalitarian.

“De-banking” has become a term to describe the act of the government colluding with the banking system to target individuals with “adverse” political views. We’ve seen various examples of that over the years, but the push to punish people for wrong-think financially has really gained steam over the last year or so. To intimidate or silence, Canada uses terrorist financing laws to ban bank accounts. Is it worth opposing government officials who can steal your life with a stroke of the pen?

It is surprising that these authority officials seem to not be afraid of doing the right thing. There will be no consequences for their actions, and certainly, the media won’t hold them accountable. In fact, they can apparently count on the author of “Liberal Fascism” to whitewash the whole thing as not preferable, but also Not bad at all.

I think Trudeau is a putz. But totalitarianism is a word with like a meaning you can find in a dictionary. https://t.co/aQLnlDpocl

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) February 17, 2022

Yes, the word “totalitarian” does, in fact, have a definition. Per the Oxford dictionary, here’s what it is.

Refers to a centralized and dictatorial system of government, which requires full subordination to its state.

Trudeau and his cohorts what are they doing? Well, they are centralizing their power to act in a dictatorial way in order to demand subservience to the state’s will. This sounds very totalitarian. Now, I realize bad-faith actors will want to quibble over the details, claiming that other parts of Canada’s system remain free from such interference, but doing so is incredibly obtuse. Modern political actions can be totalitarian in nature without being the equivalent of what happened in Soviet Russia or Hitler’s Germany.

What’s going on in Canada is not just sliding down a slippery slope. It’s strapping on skis and hitting a black diamond run — and that’s by design. The greatest threat to freedom of speech was going to come from using the banks to pursue political opponents. It should be alarming that we now see the first government-sponsored, large-scale steps towards normalizing this from a nation that claims to be free. What’s the limiting principle here? Any honest onlooker will admit there isn’t one. Trudeau is now free to crush any challenger of his will.

Calling that totalitarianism may make some soft-spined conservatives feel icky, but that’s exactly what it is. And rest assured that if Donald Trump had taken such action during the 2020 BLM riots, they’d be singing a far different tune.