David Fenske

Engineer, hockey player, hunter, angler, sailor, farm boy, city-dweller by necessity. I am not a number, I am a free man!

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Tech companies on Bill C-22

• Shopify @Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke @tobi warned that Bill C-22 could become a “death blow to Canadian tech viability” and make Canada “essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.”

• Signal's @signalapp VP of Strategy & Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari stated, "In its current form, Bill C-22 would convert the everyday tools Canadians rely on into a sprawling, insecure surveillance apparatus."

• Apple @Apple Senior Director of User Privacy & Child Safety Erik Neuenschwander warned that Bill C-22 allows the Government of Canada to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products - “something Apple will never do.”

• Google's @Google Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Jeanette Patell warned that Bill C-22 “goes well beyond lawful access regimes in other G7 democracies, and risks creating new surveillance infrastructure that would introduce serious security vulnerabilities, undermine user trust and hinder our ability to innovate and offer pro-privacy technologies.”

• Meta @Meta warned that Bill C-22 could require companies to build or maintain capabilities that weaken encryption and that could force providers to "install government spyware directly on their systems."

• Proton VPN @ProtonVPN General Manager David Peterson warned that complying with Bill C-22 could conflict with Swiss and European privacy obligations. He said, “Complying with foreign surveillance orders without Swiss legal process is a criminal offence...We’ll defend our Canadian users and never compromise them.”

• NordVPN @NordVPN stated that “there isn’t a scenario in which we would compromise our no-logs architecture or encryption protections" and that it would consider limiting or removing its Canadian presence.

• ExpressVPN @expressvpn warned, “Legislation that mandates data retention or technical access, however well-intentioned, undermines the security that millions of users rely on."

• DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo stated that "if the bill passes, we will be forced to stop offering our VPN in Canada."

• Windscribe @windscribecom stated, “...they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens."

Privacy protects citizens. It also protects innovation.

Note: These statements were made before Bill C-22 was amended on June 18, 2026. In our view, those amendments did not meaningfully address concerns raised by tech companies, privacy experts, or civil liberties organizations. The companies above are free to tell Canadians whether the amendments have changed their assessment.

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

West meets East.

Four years ago, when @ChrisBarber1975, Jonathan, Zippy, and myself slowly made our way into Ottawa, we had no idea what would be awaiting us. We were excited, anxious and hopeful.

Unbeknownst to us until later in the day, we were just over 100km long and strong when we pulled into Arnprior the previous evening. Behind us in convoy there were truckers, pilot vehicles, mechanic trucks, tow trucks, doctors, lawyers, nurses, servers, day care workers, business owners, ranchers, farmers, oil rig workers, teachers, government employees, former law enforcement personnel, veterans, citizen journalists, housewives, homeless and the hopeless given hope anew. All walks of life, all demographics, all religions, all regions.

Canadians from across the entire country came together in our nations capital asking for a polite conversation with their elected civil servants about their numerous and valid concerns. They were ignored, maligned, laughed at, smeared, falsely accused of heinous behaviour and criminal activity, and, eventually, they became victims of the unlawful excessive use of force, the unconstitutional freezing of their bank accounts, and vexatious lawfare. These good people have yet to receive as much as an apology for this unprecedented breach of their Charter Rights, let alone accountability.

On this particular day, however, we arrived on a freezing cold day to a warm welcome and a sea of flags. Everyone was riding the same tidal wave of hope on an ocean of darkness.

Canadians stood proud and full of faith. Canadian Truckers held the line to put a stop to nonsensical mandates.

And they won.

Our greeting:

[Camus @newstart_2024]

A deafening silence speaks volumes. At a historic press conference on Parliament Hill, constitutional lawyer Shawn Buckley revealed a stunning truth: not a single mainstream media reporter was present.

This wasn't just any event. It was the delivery of the third-largest paper petition in Canada’s 157-year history, a monumental grassroots effort by citizens demanding the protection of their fundamental right to access natural health products (NHPs).

As Buckley articulated, this is a story in itself. Why does a nation need to create a "Health Charter" simply to entrench rights they already have? Why did a cross-country tour, fueled by volunteers and filled with standing-room-only crowds, garner a media blackout?

Buckley calls it the "dog that didn't bark"—a crucial clue from Sherlock Holmes pointing to a deeper truth. He asserts that Canada is in the midst of a "spiritual war" over bodily autonomy, where Health Canada's censorship of truthful health information about NHPs is a pivotal piece of the puzzle. The goal, he warns, is to force everyone into a rigid "allopathic model" that serves Big Pharma and strips citizens of hope and choice.

The absence of the press confirms the establishment's fear: if the public knew the full extent of this overreach, "it would bring down the entire system."

This is a pivotal moment. The fight for the freedom to choose how we care for our own bodies is happening now, and it’s being led by the people.

This is not just about vitamins. It’s about freedom.

STAND WITH SHAWN BUCKLEY. Support the Natural Health Product Protection Association (NHPPA).

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Ostriches Executed for No Good Reason
The children are watching.
“ On Friday, “professional marksmen” in Canada gunned down almost 400 ostriches. Birds that were clearly disease free; just more victims of the Canadian government’s totalitarian overreach. Deja vu- “the truckers rally.”
Read more at:
https://t.co/arfkfGC398

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS VIDEO

Shawn Buckley from the Natural Health Product Protection Association just gave one of the most powerful speeches in Ottawa fighting for our right to access natural health products.

At 19:54 of this video will BLOW YOUR MIND.

CANADIAN 🇨🇦 HEALTH ON THE LINE

[Franco Terrazzano @franco_nomics]

End ALL corporate welfare!

When politicians are risking your money instead of their own you might as well send them to the casino.

Canadians need a No More Business Boondoggles Law to outlaw corporate welfare.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

Read it and weep, snowflakes. The lies are exposed, the facts don’t lie, and people across the world can see the truth.

The question remains: when will you stop lying to yourself and others, and start thanking your fellow citizens for fighting for your freedom?

“Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, organizers of the most successful protest in Canadian history, kept their cool, kept the peace and brought national unity, patriotism and common sense back to Canada after the pandemic – this, despite the sustained efforts of the most aggressively controlling, divisive government the nation has ever had. They achieved this under intense pressure and at great personal cost.

They’re national heroes, and the persecution waged against them is destroying trust in the Canadian judicial system, though the judge involved does not seem to realize it. Justice Perkins-McVey said in court that if she discharged the defendants, it would “undermine confidence in the administration of justice”.

But it’s quite the opposite…

There was another ironic moment at the sentencing. The judge announced, “Politics has no place inside this courtroom” – yet the trial has been widely viewed as nothing more than the political vengeance of Doug Ford and the Ontario government.

If it weren’t for politics, Lich and Barber would never have been arrested, let alone put through jail time, solitary confinement, loss of employment, years of drawn-out, costly legal proceedings, onerous bail conditions and emotional strain…

This means the public is paying twice – once as taxpayers, with money intended to pursue real criminals wasted on a political vendetta – and once again, voluntarily, to support the brave people who stood up to ask for an end to lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

This is the same public that already gave $24 million to the truckers to help them go to Ottawa and protest vaccine mandates and lockdowns: $24 million that never reached them, because politicians colluded with fundraising sites and banks to freeze the money, debank the protestors and doxx the donors, all without a court order. No criminal charges have been laid in Canada, to this writer’s knowledge, against the perpetrators of these deeds, though they damaged national institutions far more than any protest ever could.

Justice Perkins-McVey is right to be concerned about confidence in the administration of justice. Many Canadians share her concern. Sadly, her handling of this case has done little to dispel their fears.”

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

The crisis was our government’s unprecedented, unscientific, draconian response to a public health issue.

The result was the destruction of livelihoods, our economy, and our trust in “democratic” institutions.

The government was the disease.

The truckers were the cure.

[Jason Lavigne @JasonLavigneAB]

🚨BREAKING: After 3½ Years, Crown’s Case Against Csaba Vizi Collapses in Just 6 Minutes🚨

Timeline of the Csaba Vizi Case – Collapse of the Crown’s Prosecution

February 19, 2022 – Arrest and Charges

Csaba Vizi, a trucker participating in the Ottawa Freedom Convoy, was arrested during the police operation to clear downtown Ottawa.

He was charged with four offences:
- Resisting arrest
- Mischief (two counts)
- Disobeying a court order (the “no-honking” injunction)

Vizi alleged that despite kneeling and attempting to comply, he was assaulted by police during the arrest, leaving him with injuries. (Video attached below)

Before September 25, 2025 – Charges Narrowed

Over time, two charges were withdrawn by the Crown: the resisting arrest charge and one mischief count.

By September 2025, only two remained:
- Mischief (single count)
- Disobeying a court order

September 25, 2025 – Charter Ruling

9:15 AM – Justice Macfarlane delivers his decision on the defence Charter application.

- “Vacuum of evidence”: no arresting officer testified, no video of the arrest, and no clear evidence of who arrested Vizi. (Note: The arrest video exists; it was of his beating. Presumably this is why the Crown didn't provide it as evidence to the Court.)
- The arrest was ruled unlawful, making the subsequent search unlawful.
- Seizure of Vizi’s driver’s licence deemed an unreasonable search.
- s. 10a breach: Police failed to explain the alleged court order adequately.
- s. 10b breach: Inconsistent evidence about access to counsel.
- s. 24(2): Video evidence obtained through these breaches was ruled inadmissible.

With no evidence left, the Crown still failed to withdraw. The matter was adjourned to October 3 to determine whether a trial would proceed.

October 3, 2025 – Acquittal

9:45 AM – Court convened to decide if a December trial would move forward.

Early confusion: No Crown was present; defence counsel, Ms. Magas, and Vizi (via Zoom) were already in place.

9:57 AM – Fill-in Crown Wlodarczyk arrived.
9:59 AM – Judge re-entered.
10:00 AM – The Crown conceded, stating they would call no further evidence and requested an acquittal.
10:01 AM – Justice Macfarlane entered Not Guilty verdicts on both charges.
10:05 AM – Court concluded.

The collapse of a case that dragged on for more than three years was over in just six minutes.

Key Takeaway

The Crown pursued this prosecution, despite a glaring lack of evidence, repeated Charter violations, and a failure even to call the arresting officer as a witness.

Mr. Vizi endured years of stress, legal battles, costs, and uncertainty — only to have the court find that there was never enough evidence to justify a trial. The Crown arrived in court unprepared, disorganized, and unable to meet the most basic evidentiary standard.

Justice was delayed for years, then delivered in a matter of minutes.

Here is the arrest video 👇👇👇

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

I’ve had a lot of people ask about the lyrics I rewrote for Folsom. I had a lot of fun with this one. Here you go.

🎶🎵Ottawa Prison Blues 🎵🎶

I hear the trucks a comin, they’re rolling round the bend,
I ain’t seen the sunshine since Wellington.
Well I’m stuck in Ottawa Prison, time keeps dragging on,
But them big rigs keep a rollin, down on Wellington.

When I was just a baby, my daddy told me, hon,
Always be a good girl, don’t take no sh*t from anyone.
So we went to Ottawa city, way down eastern town.
And they nabbed us on a mischief,
Because we wouldn’t back down.

I bet them politicians in their fancy condo suites,
Were cheering CBC & Global, waiting on their UberEats.
Well they say I had it coming, they say I can’t be free.
But them people lost their freedoms,
And that’s what tortured me.

Well if they free me from this prison, if the PMO was mine,
It wouldn’t be a crime to shout out “Hold the Line!”
Now I’m far from Ottawa from Ottawa Prison,
That’s where I want to stay.
God bless them Canadian Truckers,
Who honked our blues away.

[David Fenske @DavidFe9909]

@ctochor

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Canada - This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's in the text of Bill C-8.

The federal government is quietly giving itself a "kill switch" for your internet and phone.

One minister. One order. They can suspend YOUR service.

They claim it's for "cybersecurity," but the bill has ZERO protections for free speech, journalists, or citizens exposing government overreach.

Your platform, your voice, your ability to speak out—gone with the flick of a switch.

This is the moment to push back.

🔻 SHARE THIS.
🔻 TAG YOUR MP.
🔻 STOP BILL C-8.

[David Fenske @DavidFe9909]

@Martyupnorth_2 B. Central Canada is now actively hostile to Western Canada.

[Bruce McGonigal @bruce_mcgonigal]

🦆🦠 : UBC professor Dr. Steven Pelech explains that H5N1 has gone through pathogenic reassortment over 100 times on Canadian poultry farms, in just the last few years.

He also explains this is likely happening in the wild among migratory birds.

The H5N1 virus that infected the ostriches in Canada over 250 days ago, had it's origins in a US bio lab where serial passage experiments had been done to help the virus evolve.

It's a Gain of Function (GoF) generated virus.

Covid-19 was also a Gain of Function virus, from a lab in Wuhan China.

Until we start addressing the issue of lab tinkered viruses, we will be in very grave danger from the very institutions that are supposed to be protecting us from pandemics.

Remember folks, over 1 billion birds just migrated into the Southern portion of the USA and into Mexico, fleeing the cold North America winter that is rapidly approaching.

Tens of millions of those birds will be carrying strains of the lab generated H5N1 virus.

To date, only 1 person in Canada actually caught H5N1 since 1997 and they recovered.

So all of this is hysteria to deflect from the fact that once again humanity and our food supply has been put at risk, by a bio lab.

How many more times will Canadians & Canadian farmers be punished because of a lab tinkered virus?

Full 35 minute video can be found in link...

https://t.co/V5CwX42Ck9

[Nadine Ness @NadineGNess]

The ostrich situation in Canada exposes a much bigger problem with Canadian farming legislation, it’s a direct attack on open-air and humane farming.

Most people don’t realize that the eggs you buy at the grocery store, even the ones labeled “free range,” usually don’t mean hens get to go outside. At best, they’re kept in barns with no outdoor access. More often, they’re in cages.

Why?
•Quota rules & legislation: The system is designed around controlled indoor barns, making outdoor farming almost impossible.
•Cost & risk: The price of buying into the quota system is so high, no farmer can afford the added risk of outdoor flocks. If just one bird tests positive for disease, which is far more likely when they have access to wild birds, the government can cull your entire flock.

I don’t know of a single quota poultry farmer here who lets their birds outside. The system makes it simply too risky. This applies to ostriches as it’s the same legislation, demanding they all be killed.

The result is an industry where poultry, whether hens or ostriches, are almost always confined indoors, not because farmers want it that way, but because the system forces them into it.

How does this affect you, the consumer? You get a lower quality of food. If we know having no access to the outside affects us negatively, what do you think that does to birds? You get lower quality of food and lower levels of nutrition.

We can and should do better. Biblically speaking, we should be stewarding better the animals under our care. We should allow the animals to live in the way they were designed. While under our care, before becoming food, they should have the best life possible. Our government makes that impossible to do.

We need to do more than save the ostriches. We need to demand legislative change and abolish the quota system. We need to let farmers farm the way they want to farm and get the government out of farming.

[wastedcanadian @melissacare01]

I am a licensed Canadian Veterinarian with 30 years of relevant knowledge, skill set and experience.
In my professional opinion, there is no humane way to cull these birds due to their inherent behaviour:
Heavy mass.
Spindly legs that fracture easily. Prone to running without self preservation.
Very resistant to ammunition. Almost impossible to herd. Highly sensitive.
Poor target zones- size and location.
Easily triggered by noise and movement.
So, to humanely cull them in group numbers is virtually impossible. Meaning it would take high level skill to euthanize one humanely, let alone 396!
Again, in my opinion, there is no reason to cull at this point and every reason not to. Really good reasons not to.
Furthermore, the types of folks they have brought in to perform the cull are not animal welfare trained.
From an outside perspective, the current situation seems to be a case of injured ego at the individual management level (can’t back down mindset) and governmental loss of control to a non-Canadian oversight organization. Little to no sovereignty. (Zero SOE reason at present). Literally the CFIA should not be governed by a non-sovereign organization, who truly does not care about these birds’ welfare.
Those who could speak out are fearful to do so bc of potential loss of employ, licensure, livelihood and personal security- with good reason considering the unfairness we have seen and experienced throughout the past few years. Namely, severe penalties and incarceration for peaceful assembly and free speech rallying.
Canada is not the free and dependable country it once proudly was.
At some point someone has to point this out despite the personal risk. (There shouldn’t be any risk to do so, in a democracy.)

I, personally, am appalled and deeply negatively affected by these proceedings and can see the clear necessity to stop this unnecessary, traumatic cull from an ethical animal welfare perspective.

Public safety can be achieved through individual testing, observation for symptomology, isolation of any unwell individuals and possibly euthanasia of those that develop symptoms.
Certainly a widespread cull is only going to cause mass injury, mass panic, massive suffering.
The challenge is the species and its inherent behaviour. There are very few humane options for culling a large number of ratites at once.
Therefore management and individual testing is only humane option.
I would use a humane chute or gated graduated channel system to move them safely and calmly. Collect sample and release to sorting pens. The process should be as quick as possible.
My personal professional opinion is:
Humane treatment is paramount.
The cull is unnecessary at this point.
The governance needs to reconsider their position and see current shift away from necessity to cull. To understand that it is more beneficial to work with the natural immminity and preserve it for future use from a global health benefit perspective. The urgency to cull has long gone as the herd has self maintained its health.

“Transmission without symptoms is largely a fallacy”-Dr. Byram Bridle.

The birds are now geographically well contained and asymptomatic.
They contain recovered natural immunity antibodies -the best and most robustly protective type.
They could be an important reservoir of genetics and immunity for the prevention of an avian influenza pandemic. It is in the public protection interest to preserve this reservoir of antibodies.

Continued in comments

[Julius Ruechel @JuliusRuechel]

All it would have taken to resolve this issue is another test to establish if these ostriches are still, in fact, carriers of the bird flu.

But that would have undermined govt authority.

And possibly exposed that some (or all) of the remaining birds not only might not carry the virus anymore but even might have anti-bodies (a.k.a. acquired natural immunity), which would have thrown the entire basis of much of current public health (and CFIA's policies) into disrepute.

And so, someone's life work — and the lives of 400 ostriches — are being sacrificed on the alter of the State.

~ ~ ~

If a bureaucracy is incapable of grappling with nuance and bypasses science in order to defend its authority, then it's time to disband that bureaucracy.

If police insist on enforcing immoral and unscientific mandates to protect a bureaucracy run amok, then it's time to disband that law enforcement agency.

If the courts show themselves as willing to sacrifice nuance, fairness, morals, ethics, and scientific evidence in order to defend govt power, then the entire foundations of our justice system lie in ruins.

If our elected representatives, like opposition leader @PierrePoilievre , stay silent during the abuse of govt power and do not step in to rein in a broken system, then the entire basis of the legislative process is called into question.

And if the people themselves re-elect politicians who either participated in or stayed silent during this groteque abuse of govt power, then this raises existential questions about the viability of liberal democracy going forward.

~ ~ ~

And so, it was never just about the ostriches.

Although legality and justice are two separate concepts, when they fail to overlap it means the system is completely broken.

What 🇨🇦 is doing to these poor ostrich farmers in BC may be legal according to the letter of the law.

But it is anything but just.

What affects one sets a precedent for what can be done to us all.

[Kyle Kemper 💫 @kylekemper]

In a letter RFK Jr. opposes the unnecessary killing of 400 health ostriches and suggest studying them instead. @SecKennedy