1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact
Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day.
If the federal government can now freeze your bank account not just for donating money to a political protest but simply for participating in it, peacefully, where do you think it's going to stop? Seriously.
The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act. This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met. 1/3
A Thread: The best fart of my life was at a Hobby Lobby in Phoenix.
I had been out partying my balls off and drinking like I was Keith Richards’s grandkid. Partying had and eating street food at 3am drunk.
The next morning I was still sauced. We went and ate breakfast 1/
1. The first thing to know about the media is that they're lazy. They'd rather re-write a government press release than get up from their desk and report from the field -- especially when it's -20° out.
So they repeat Trudeau's lie that the truckers are racist and sexist.
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