Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in the news again. He officially announced his resignation.
What most Americans miss is that Trudeau is still prime minister. His resignation will not take effect until a new Liberal Party of Canada leader is elected in late March.
The message Prime Minister Trudeau wants to send is clear. If you disagree with me, I can keep you away for 10 years.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Trudeau “prorogated” Parliament. This is a move by Canada's feckless Conservative Party, which has thwarted several attempts to remove Prime Minister Trudeau from office through a motion of no confidence, to suspend him from any and all responsibilities that he may have had in the meantime. It is.
How convenient!
Especially since Prime Minister Trudeau continues to destroy innocent lives in what will become one of his greatest accomplishments: the vicious persecution of truck driver protesters.
recent victim
On Friday, January 10, the latest victim, 34-year-old father-of-four and former Fort Macleod, Alberta city councilor Marco Van Heugenbos, was sentenced to four months in prison.
His crime? It is acting as a peaceful liaison between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and groups that have blocked the border crossing between Montana and Coutts, Alberta in protest of Prime Minister Trudeau's coronavirus directives. RCMP monitored the intersection during the protest.
Another man charged in the same case, George Janzen, was sentenced to 90 days of “community service.” A third person, Alex Van Herk, has not yet been sentenced because he has fired his lawyer.
Van Heugenbosch, Janzen, and Van Herk became known as the Coutts Trio.
The Coutts Four
They should not be confused with another group of political prisoners downstream from this same protest movement. coots fourHe was recently acquitted of the heinous and fanciful charge of “conspiring to kill a police officer.''
The charges authorized Canada's highly politicized judicial system. 77% of members of its judicial system Prime Minister Trudeau's party appointee – Denied bail for these men and jailed them for more than two years before their trials began, even though they had no violent or criminal histories.
2 out of 4 people Tony Olynyk and Chris Carbert remain in jail on unrelated charges. Oddly enough, the judge delivered their sentences in a two-hour speech that focused primarily on the charges for which they had just been acquitted.
judicial mischief
Now, back to the Coutts Trio. What exactly were they charged with?
“Mischief.” Under Canadian law, this seemingly benign charge, which centers around crimes against property, can carry up to 10 years in prison.
The Trudeau government has specifically accused everyone involved in the largest peaceful protest in the nation's history of “mischief,” citing a broad interpretation of case law.
The message he wants to send is clear. If you disagree with me, I can keep you away for 10 years.
According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, this was so common in Stalinist Russia that there was a term to describe it: “cutting the tenor.”
Don't have a case? no problem
The trial of Messrs. Van Heugenbos, Van Herk, and Janzen, like those of Freedom Convoy's prominent “leaders” Chris Barber and Tamara Rich, was a farce, with no evidence of any wrongdoing by them. There was literally no evidence that he was involved.
From the beginning, prosecutor Steven Johnson made clear his intention to prove that the men on trial were leaders of a revolutionary movement.
He faces serious obstacles. The Coutts' protests were much like protests in Ottawa and elsewhere across Canada, organized spontaneously and without such leaders. Johnson then highlighted van Heugenbosch's well-intentioned efforts to act as a “leadership” mediator between protesters and police.
Despite his best efforts to prove Van Heugenbos guilty of the prank, Johnson was unable to prove any charges. He actually admitted that in his closing argument.. He then told the jury that they didn't really need to prove they were leaders for the jury to find them guilty, because the fact that they were participating in the protests was important. That's why, he said. That's enough to convict them.
The jury apparently agreed.
nice to meet you
Prime Minister Trudeau takes his carefully managed stance to U.S. cable news farewell tour, There is no mention of the Coutts Trio. They are not remembered, as is the failure of Prime Minister Trudeau's grossly incompetent and authoritarian coronavirus response.
Nor will you hear about Prime Minister Trudeau's disastrous policies on immigration and homelessness, and the untold damage he has done to Canada's economy, social fabric and reputation.
Meanwhile, Mark Carney recently announced his candidacy to replace Trudeau on Jon Stewart's show. Former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of CanadaThe Bank of England kept a straight face, claiming to be a political outsider.
Clearly, both men are more interested in appealing to American elites than their own citizens. Reading this should give you some idea of the likelihood that Prime Minister Trudeau will be tried for numerous crimes against Canada.
