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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is out of control – jailing peaceful protestors, freezing their bank accounts, and falsely accusing Jewish member of parliament of ‘standing with people who wave swastikas’

Christians need to denounce Trudeau’s totalitarianism and the dangerous playbook peddled by the World Economic Forum

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 9, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Our world is heading in a very dangerous direction.

Rather than demonstrating a commitment to the protection of the rights of their citizens, the leaders of many Western nations appear far more interested in following the playbook of the World Economic Forum – and Trudeau’s Canada is all in.

Over the past week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made it clear to the Canadian people that opposition to his political views absolutely will not be tolerated.

Trudeau has committed grave violations against the rights of Canadian protestors by assuming unprecedented emergency powers.

He has even cruelly attacked the entirety of his political opposition, including a Jewish Member of Parliament, by claiming they are standing “with people who wave swastikas.”

Despite Trudeau’s clear violations of the rights of Canadians, most leaders in the West and most of the establishment media have been largely silent about – or even supportive of – his actions.

In fact, Trudeau’s actions are in keeping with the prevailing agenda of a large and growing segment of the Western world. Both Israel and the United States have their own versions of the Emergencies Act that Trudeau invoked in Canada – so it can happen there as well at any time.

As the West increasingly turns its back on many of the biblical values upon which it was built, it is opening itself up to increasing totalitarianism.

People who understand the connection between freedom and faith in God need to denounce Trudeau’s totalitarianism in all its forms.

Indeed, if people around the world don’t boldly and peacefully stand up for their values and freedoms in the public square, what Canada has become is what the world will become – and the descent of our world into totalitarianism won’t stop there. 

A demonstrator holds a sign criticizing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on one hand and a Canadian flag in the other in support of truck drivers protesting Canada's vaccine mandate during the truck convoy, Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: USA Today Network via Reuters)

WHAT IS GOING ON IN CANADA?

Massive anti-mandate protests – inspired and led by the “Truckers Protest,” also known as the “Freedom Convoy” – have been taking place in Ottawa and across Canada in defiance of the overreaching COVID policies of the Canadian government.

Large numbers of truck drivers began these protests to express their opposition to Trudeau’s mandate that they must be vaccinated if they are to cross the U.S.-Canadian border – even though 84% of Canadians and a vast majority of truckers themselves are vaccinated.

While sparked by Trudeau’s vaccine mandate for truckers, the protests found support from large numbers of Canadians. The protests were thus not limited to the trucker vaccine mandates but on protecting the rights of all Canadians who have had vaccine mandates and the accompanying vaccine passport system imposed upon them. 

Yet rather than listen to or reason with the protestors, Trudeau has done nothing but actively divide the Canadian people.

Canadian police officers face off with demonstrators protesting against pandemic restrictions in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 19, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

He has refused to meet with the organizers of the protest, or to consider their request that the federal government of Canada scrap its vaccine mandates and vaccine passport system (as is already being done by many countries across the world).

Instead, he has smeared the protesters, condemning the Freedom Convoy protestors as a “small fringe minority” who hold “unacceptable views.” Trudeau suddenly decided that they needed to be done away with, thus invoking the “Emergencies Act” last Monday. By doing this he chose to resort to tactics typical of despotic regimes’ treatment of political opposition: deceit and brute force.

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Elliot Kaufman noted that this act – which has never been utilized previously – gives the Canadian government “the power to prohibit travel, public assemblies and use of any specified property, to force people or companies to render essential services, to impose fines and imprisonment for violating any of the emergency rules, and to use the military as police.”

But that’s not all.

Kaufman goes on to point out that Trudeau has decided to use additional powers, including “directing financial institutions, without court orders, to freeze personal and corporate bank accounts connected to the protests.”

Since police began arresting the Freedom Convoy protesters last Friday, nearly 200 protestors have been arrested and over 200 bank accounts have been frozen.

This Tuesday, Canada’s House of Commons voted to extend these emergency powers.

TRUDEAU ACCUSES JEWISH PARLIAMENTARIAN OF “STANDING WITH PEOPLE WHO WAVE SWASTIKAS“

In an attempt to justify these measures, Trudeau has attacked his political opponents as racist extremists, without any evidence supporting such claims.

In the Canadian Parliament last Wednesday, MP Melissa Lantsman, a member of Canada’s Conservative Party, spoke in opposition to Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Lantsman called out Trudeau’s treatment of the Freedom Convoy protestors, using Trudeau’s own words from 2015: “‘If Canadians are to trust their government, their government needs to trust Canadians.’”

Conservative Member of Parliament Melissa Lantsman speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 2, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Yet now Trudeau calls these protestors “‘misogynistic, racist, women-haters, science-deniers, the fringe,’” she continued. “[This is the] same prime minister six years later, as he fans the flames of an unjustified national emergency. So, Mr. Speaker, when did the prime minister lose his way? When did it happen?”

Trudeau responded by accusing Lantsman – a Jewish woman and a descendant of Holocaust survivors – of “standing with people who wave swastikas.”

Several MPs called on Trudeau to apologize for his comments, yet Trudeau refused.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo: Adrian Wyld/Pool via Reuters)

IS THIS THE FUTURE OF WESTERN LEADERSHIP?

Is the future of Canada, a supposedly free and democratic country, to follow the model of Communist China?

Is this the future of Western leadership?

Can a leader who bitterly attacks his opponents as racists and extremists truly be called “tolerant?”

Can a society whose government assumes the power to freeze the bank accounts of peaceful protestors without criminal charges truly be called free?

While Trudeau paints himself as a champion of the oppressed, he has chosen to forcefully persecute “a fringe minority” (in his words), segregating this group from the rest of society, all for declining to receive an experimental shot which even the director of the CDC admits does not stop the spread of COVID.

While Trudeau portrays himself as a “liberal,” he has refused to protect the basic rights of Canadians to speak freely, to make their own medical decisions, and to protest peacefully.

Even former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford, the only surviving drafter and signatory of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, has vocally opposed the Canadian government’s violations of that charter regarding COVID shots under the pretext of public health. 

A DANGEROUS PLAYBOOK

Yet Trudeau is not alone in his political ideology and strategies.

It is clear from the silence of Western leaders, and from the lack of criticism by establishment media outlets, that Trudeau’s policies are but a preview of the brave new world desired by much of the leadership of the Western world.

Trudeau is following the exact same playbook being used across the globe:

  • Declare a crisis

  • Construct a narrative around the crisis

  • Push the narrative via establishment media

  • Use the narrative to consolidate power

  • Slander, censor and persecute all those who oppose the narrative 

This strategy has been used across the world in response to the pandemic time and time again.

Supporters and truckers front the Parliament Hill during a protest in downtown of Ottawa, Canada, on February 12, 2022. (Photo: Mohamed Kadri/NurPhoto)

TRUDEAU AND THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Political and corporate leaders across the planet have made it clear that they see the pandemic as an opportunity to radically change our world.

Most notably, this was explicitly stated by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Schwab’s organization hosts a yearly gathering of politicians, bankers, business titans and more in Davos, Switzerland, to facilitate and strengthen what he calls “public-private partnerships” – that is, to foster greater synchronization between nation states and corporations, in order to carry out an increasingly unified global agenda. In addition to its yearly conference, Schwab’s organization exerts a significant influence over the political and corporate worlds through its “Young Global Leaders” initiative, in which Justin Trudeau was involved.

In 2020, Schwab publicly called upon world leaders to recognize the pandemic as an “opportunity” to enact a “Great Reset” of capitalism:

To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a Great Resetof capitalism.”

As a “Young Global Leader” himself, Trudeau and his government appear to be heavily influenced by the agendas of the WEF. Trudeau echoed Schwab’s vision in a 2020 speech to the UN, in which he stated that “this pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.”

In a 2017 interview, Klaus Schwab boasted of WEF's influence in global politics, saying that “we penetrate the cabinets” of world leaders.

He specifically mentioned the influence of the WEF on Trudeau’s government: “Half of [Trudeau’s] cabinet, or even more...are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.”

In fact, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is on the WEF’s board of trustees. It was Freeland who recently announced that the Canadian government is working to make some of the recent emergency powers permanent.

Furthermore, Schwab lavished praise upon Trudeau at a conference in Davos in 2016, which was focused on what Schwab calls the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

Schwab says that this “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” characterized by rapid technological developments (artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, etc.), will change not only our world, but humanity itself, and will lead to “a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological identities.”

During the 2016 conference, Schwab held up Trudeau as a shining example of what leadership should look like in our world’s digital future: “I couldn’t imagine anybody who could represent more the world which will come out of this Fourth Industrial Revolution.” 

Schwab also expressed his excitement that Trudeau would “represent a new, open Canada.”

Is today’s Canada the “open Canada” which Klaus Schwab envisioned?

Are Trudeau’s authoritarian tactics representative of the future of politics which the WEF seeks to bring about?

Is the oppressive and invasive digital vaccine passport system representative of the coming digital world which, according to Schwab, Trudeau, himself, represents? 

Canadian Police officers confront protestors in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 19, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

TRUDEAU’S CANADA: A CAUTIONARY TALE

As those who value the freedoms that have been passed down to us by previous generations, we must look to Trudeau’s Canada as a cautionary tale.

We must choose leaders who are dedicated to upholding truth and defending human liberty, rather than those who seek to transform our societies into technocratic regimes – regimes run by unaccountable scientific and political “experts,” who manufacture and exploit crises in order to centralize power and crush all dissent.

Furthermore, we must keep a close watch on our leaders’ fidelity to the agendas of organizations like the WEF.

If we want a future in which the truth can be spoken freely, we must speak the truth now.

If we want societies in which the God-given freedoms of men and women are protected, and in which our God-given values are cherished, we must not compromise when corrupt governments step outside their rightful bounds.

We must peacefully oppose such tyranny and live as those who know that the authority of Christ is higher than any government.

We must elect leaders who refuse to conform to the agendas of godless international institutions, but who will instead cherish and fight for the truths, values, and freedoms so many in the West have died to defend.

ALL ISRAEL NEWS is committed to fair and balanced coverage and analysis, and honored to publish a wide-range of opinions. That said, views expressed by guest columnists may not necessarily reflect the views of our staff.

Jacob Leonard Rosenberg is an American-Israeli, an Evangelical Christian and the son of the founder of ALL ISRAEL NEWS. He writes about the intersection of science, technology, individual liberty and religious freedom.

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