Of course the so-called budget bill, stuffed to the gills with non-budgetary items as such, has multiple political purposes, but one of them is clearly to limit dissenting voices within parliament itself and to usurp parliamentary power and transfer it to cabinet – as can be seen, for example, in the new environmental regulation proposals. This is a significant undermining of parliamentary democratic legislative procedure, but equally disturbing are two other recent repressive tactics that smack of other repressive regimes witnessed in history.
Can there be any doubt that both the proposed further criminalization of wearing a mask at a lawful assembly the aggressive CRA assaults on legitimate charities are unequivocally designed in essence to stifle dissent? This is obvious even to the mainstream media for a change. But perhaps what is most perplexing is what seems to be the utter complicity of a significant number of ordinary Canadians who . . . → Read More: Politics and Entertainment: Repressive Tactics Smack of History