“Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, known for his flamboyance, was caught on camera doing a pirouette behind the Queen in May 1977 as they took part in a G7 summit in London, England. Years after what many thought was a spontaneous event, one of Pierre Trudeau’s aides revealed that the gesture was planned and even rehearsed as a show of disdain for a palace protocol that separated heads of government from heads of state.”.Thus the Canadian Press reported in November 2015, on the eve of Justin Trudeau's meeting with the Queen, 38 years after his father..The image is a stark contrast to the recent attention and gravity given to the death of the Queen, all the while our PM and state media madly try to present themselves as upholders of all things institutional and grand in Canada in the wake of Poilievre's victory..So a brief refresher on our own piano-bar singing PM is warranted:.“Why are there so many women in your cabinet,” a reporter asked in 2015, and was met with the rehearsed and disdainful retort: “Because it's 2015.”.“Do you like my socks?” Trudeau asked the now former prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, at a 2017 meeting on the Trans-Pacific partnership. “Justin, we're not here to talk about your socks,” he was answered..Conflict of interest and applying pressure on behalf of SNC-Lavalin to the Office of the Attorney General, in the person of Jody Wilson-Raybould. WE charirty scandal. RCMP. Famously surfing on the the first of Canada's Day for Truth and Reconciliation..But the background to the vaccine mandate is perhaps the most blatant revelation of Trudeau's disdain for our institutions and for all Canadians..Rupa Subrayama reported last month a story that should have outraged all “follow-the-science” Canadians: “Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis.”.The two plaintiffs in the case, Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard — both British immigrants to Canada — were unable to visit loved ones in Britain when the curtain came down. With the mandates having now been dropped, they're now waiting to hear if the case will be dismissed or go ahead..The case revealed in the days leading up to the travel mandate the secretive “Covid recovery group” — the 20-member team with no experience in epidemiology among any of its members, yet tasked with issuing the travel mandate by cabinet, was begging for some evidence to support the upcoming travel ban..Court documents show a somewhat intense e-mail exchange between Aaron McCrorie, the associate assistant deputy minister for Safety and Security in Transport Canada (which houses the COVID Recovery team) and Dawn Lumley-Myllari, director general of Policy Operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada, less than two weeks before the mandate was set to kick in..McCrorie wrote: “To the extent that updated data exist or that there is clearer evidence of the safety benefit of vaccination on the users or other stakeholders of the transportation system, it would be helpful to assist Transport Canada supporting its measures.”.Four days later (October 22), McCrorie emailed Lumley-Myllari again: “Our requirements come in on October 30, so need something fairly soon.”.Trudeau announced the travel mandate on August 13, two days before calling the election, no doubt banking on the popularity of the mandate. The exchange above was two months later: Still no official scientific basis had been obtained by the department charged with creating the mandate..As Subramanya reports, “the evidence to justify the mandate was never handed over.”.Among other things, the court documents indicate a senior official in the prime minister’s cabinet, or possibly the prime minister himself, ordered COVID Recovery to impose the travel mandate, but the official who testifyed would not say who, due to “cabinet confidence.”.In a recent update to her article, Subramanya reveals in obtaining the relevant documents for the case they have found that “much of the material presented to cabinet has been redacted — pages and pages, indeed, of blacked out text.”.She asks, “If there was a solid scientific rationale for the mandate, why is this information withheld from the public under the fig leaf of cabinet confidentiality?”.And yet we were told repeatedly the mandate was based on science. We were told that those protesting the mandate were bucking science, the science justified massive firings across the country, the science justified coercing people into begging on hand and knee for religious exemptions, and the science justified keeping unvaxxed Canadians locked behind our own iron curtain unable to visit loved ones overseas..As Subramanya says, “In the days leading up to the implementation of the travel mandate, transportation officials — at the behest of Trudeau's cabinet — were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.”.And yet ... sober second thought?.Nope. Nothing but hubris..Recently, Trudeau issued his recent and predictable threat if we don't get to 80 or 90 percent updated vaccination, provinces will have no choice but to reissue restrictions. This, while Africa with low vaccination rates is bidding the pandemic goodbye and European countries, all with lower vax rates than us, are no longer trafficking in the same palaver..In fact, the rest of the world is pulling back on the vax and restrictions, some countries publicly engaging in scrutiny of what has been done to the populace these last two years — talking about short-term effects of the vax, the impacts of lockdowns as uncertain, highlighting natural immunity, and even in the case of the US Centers for Disease Control, showing that nearly half of COVID-19 hospitalizations are, in fact, fully boosted..But Trudeau keeps on surfing, showing off his socks, and pirouetting away while swinging the heavy hammer of The State over our heads.
