Is the Regime in Canada Losing its Grip?
Connect the stories that appear separately, yet simultaneously, in regime media to get a clearer picture
They—the dominant elites in Canada, the political class, the interlocking interests of Big Pharma, state functionaries, and the media—are clearly worried that they are losing hold over the public. Not only has Trudeau's approval rate plummeted to abysmal proportions, dangerously low for the electoral survival of his party, but clearly 40% of adult Canadians have rejected the vax narrative and are not “dutifully” lining up for boosters, no matter how alarmist the regime media are sounding again. Trudeau, like other Canadian politicians, has had a tendency to conflate vax numbers with political support—and now he does not even have the vax numbers on his side as much as before. Those Canadians who are now resistant are no longer just the 10% of adult Canadians; they have grown to 40%—and that is just this year.
Regime media, in a rearguard effort, have been quick to tell readers what to think about Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre—whom they rightly or wrongly perceive as bad for the business of permanent pandemicism, as I have called it (i.e., the intersection of catastrophism and authoritarianism). They desperately want you to see him as tied to “far-right, extremist” elements. Regime media try to force, through association, the notion that James Topp is some sort of violent insurrectionist (and even if he had been, it would have been a totally understandable and legitimate position to take given what Canada has become—instead, in reality he is just a very peaceful protester). Was Poilievre cowed? The threat of a bad look in regime media is now the promise of a glowing profile among Canada’s majority of disenchanted victims of the lockdowns. Poilievre and his campaign gleefully doubled down: “The campaign never stated we wouldn’t meet with Topp or anyone else. We encouraged Canadians to continue to protest for their freedoms....Today I walked alongside military veteran, James Topp, who has travelled the country by foot for free choice. End all mandates. Restore our freedoms. Let people take back control of their lives”. In related news, the Conservative Party reports such a staggering surge in membership, with the numbers abundantly smashing all previous records in Canadian history. Whatever the Conservatives are doing, they are not coming out on the wrong side of Canadian public opinion—in spite of what regime media urge as correct thinking.
Thus, panic has set in with regime media, and with the regime itself. Another peaceful protester, Tamara Lich, is being persecuted further. She is being jailed for at least five more nights . What was her crime? She was seen photographed, on a Facebook page, sitting down after dinner with one of her fellow Freedom Convoy spokespersons. In Canada, such a “crime” merits extraordinary punishment. It is also based on a factual falsehood; it will be shot down even in compliant courts. The point was a petty one, to simply measure out some more pain to Lich. (I cannot resist pointing out here how popular the term “measures” was with Nazi officialdom: pain was carefully calibrated and measured out.)
How to bash the masses back into line? Quebec usually has some good pointers to offer. The attempt by some elements now is to revive fear. An editorial in The Montreal Gazette is demanding that collective masking be re-imposed, for the sake of the immune compromised (gone is the argument about “the common good”). While the Quebec government seems reluctant, they also seemed reluctant to further persecute the “vaccine resistant,” until constant hectoring from regime media apparently inspired the government to try to impose a Vax Tax, just four short months ago. Federal Canadian officials are stepping in to ramp up the fear: federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is telling Canadians they can no longer be called “fully vaccinated,” just “up to date” and—news flash—too many are not up to date: get boosted! Moderna, in response, says: “Thank you!”. Likewise, the federal government said “thank you” to Moderna for setting up a new production plant right in Montreal. Moderna is now seeking a “nod” from Health Canada to approve its new booster shot. With such nodding momentum, how can Health Canada resist?
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[Edited and updated from the Telegram archive]