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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The Corporate Takeover of Global Healthcare


By: Stewart Brennan 

(Last Edit: 2021 Feb 07)

One of the major casualties on the horizon in this on-going Global economic collapse through the fake COVID pandemic, will be “Healthcare” in nations with single payer systems.

The engineered collapse of our economies leaves our natural resources and social programs open to corporate pillaging by western oligarchs and private interests with deep pockets. The same thing happened to Russia when its economic system was torn apart by criminal greed during their economic collapse in the 1990’s. The pillaging of the nation only stopped when Vladimir Putin came to power and declared war on the oligarchs and rebuilt Russia from the ashes. Sadly, the nations of the west have no courageous leaders with enough nerve to protect their people from the thieves and monsters of the wealthy class.

My Russian friends tell me, what they remember most about that time, is that while political corruption and thieving oligarchs were looting the country, the economy collapsed, scarcity ensued, inflation soared, violence increased exponentially and people suffered greatly. Vladimir Putin put an end to all of that, and restored Russia’s economy and economic independence. Economic independence is frowned upon by the western economic cartel which is why the US & UK establishment do not like Vladimir Putin.

The same type of theft is happening now across Europe and North America as governments allow corporations and oligarchs to loot all of our economically depressed countries during a fake pandemic. The politicians who are pushing lockdowns are criminally responsible for their part in the destruction of our nations, and also for the untold disasters which have yet to unfold as a direct consequence…and those consequences are coming. There is no excuse for what they have done, they are 100% guilty of crimes against our communities.

The wealthy class in each country, with China a major player, have gone into collusion to usurp all economic veins of our communities. It is being done by totalitarian lockdowns through a fake pandemic in which China is a major player.

Proof of Collusion:

In a recent letter [01] by Randy Hillier, sent to Canadian Prime Minister, “Justin Trudeau”, and the subsequent provincial / territorial leaders and their opposition, Randy Hillier, laid out 11 crucial points showing the significant involvement and influence that the Chinese Government has within Canadian medical, scientific, business, and academic communities. He included a 40-page report [02] with a detailed analysis compiled by top professionals across Canada and the United states, many within the intelligence community that clearly lays out major criminal concerns.

Eleven Points:

1.Lockdowns Originated on the order of “Xi Jinping”, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and were propagated into Global Policy by the World Health Organization with little analysis or logic.

2. The Most Influential Institution for Covid-19 Models, self-described as “China’s Best Academic Partner in the West,” has been by far the most alarmist and inaccurate Covid-19 Modeler.

3. Deadly recommendations for early Mechanical Ventilation came from China

4. The World’s predominant, wildly-inaccurate PCR Testing Protocols are based on incomplete, theoretical Genome Sequences supplied by China

5. Predominant, excessive PCR Testing Protocols came from China

6. Studies showing Significant Asymptomatic Transmission, the only Scientific basis for lockdowns of Healthy Individuals, came from China

7. The CCP engaged in an early, broad, systematic, and global propaganda campaign to promote its Lockdown Response

8. Many prominent Pro-Lockdown Scientists show conspicuous Pro-China Bias

9. Many other influential lockdown supporters are both woefully unqualified to be advising World leaders on Pandemic Policy and often show conspicuous Pro-China Bias

10. Several top National Health Officials among the Nations are woefully unqualified and show conspicuous Pro-China Bias

11. Prominent lockdown supporters have proven unusually indifferent to the devastating consequences of their policies.

Moving Forward:

As I read and write about China’s history [03], what it has become and how it became what it is today, I can tell you with certainty that our governments will reject Randy Hillier’s letter and evidence because western politicians are all embedded with a global privileged class that are in the process of wiping out national economies around the world through this plandemic with China as their new economic engine.

Dominic Barton [04] who was appointed as Canada’s Ambassador to China on Sept 05th, 2019 by Justin Trudeau, is a member of this privileged wealthy political class I am talking about. Dominic Barton, known as Bao Damin in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian management consultant and business executive, whom after graduating, worked briefly as a currency analyst for N M Rothschild & Sons in London; Rothschild's financial advisory division serves British nobility, including the British Royal Family. Barton was also the Managing Director of McKinsey & Company [04a] an American International management consulting firm that caters to the wealthy by training and placing its people in high-level corporate and political positions around the world. More importantly, Barton previously sat on the advisory board of the state-run China Development Bank [05]. Working and advising the Chinese government is not normal especially for a Canadian? Until you understand what F.I.P.A. is.

Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement: (FIPA)

On September 9th, 2012, Canada signed a “Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement” [06] (FIPA) with China.
This treaty with China undermines Canadian democracy because it will give Chinese firms in Canada 31 years of “protection” from environmental, human rights or resource conservation measures they don’t like while companies and private investors gain the right to sue Canada in unaccountable private tribunals outside the court system. Canada is Under Siege. [07]

Trudeau’s Address to the World Economic Forum 2016 praising Dominic Barton



So, what we are going to see in the near-term future as a result of the deliberate crashing of our economies by this false pandemic is more economic control of our country by corporations, including Chinese corporations (ie: the Chinese Government) that cannot be challenged in the courts.

Heads in a Noose

The card that the economic cartel holds over our head in Canada is debt, which the wealthy and private banks control. The kind of control that leads to the destruction of the Canadian social system, especially the Provincial healthcare systems which will most likely be consumed by the economic cartels corporate branch of the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. The result of which will make healthcare unaffordable to an ever-increasing impoverished citizenry. I suppose that doesn’t mean much to US citizens who never really had a single payer healthcare system. However, I’m sure Canadians and Europeans see very clearly how Insurance companies and Pharmaceutical companies prey off of the US citizens where healthcare is not affordable and how pharmaceutical corporations are maneuvering governments to force lockdowns, and mask laws while pushing mRNA poisons as solutions on their populations. By the way, They are NOT vaccines! [08]


In this new unfolding dystopian world, governments rule like tyrants, everything is being destroyed; sports programs, schools, colleges, Universities, hospitals, clinics, small businesses, entertainment venues, and millions of jobs, while human interaction has been banned, spiritual gatherings broken up, curfews have locked us up under threat of massive fines and jail. Most of the population lives in fear, many are depressed or suicidal, and all of it because these rich sociopathic greedy puckers want to rule the world through their fraudulent corporate private banks!

What becomes clear in the western nations is the rise of “Totalitarianism” through total economic control and enslavement of the population by a wealthy class determined to enforce their dystopian world view through their corporate, banking and political ownership.

The Loss of Our Healthcare:

Today, hospitals and clinics throughout Canada, the US and Europe are reported to be at their breaking point by mainstream media yet amateur video footage from around the world shows a different story (See here [09a] and here[09b]). I can also confirm that hospitals are NOT overburdened from my own experience [09c]. Virtual Doctor appointments and prescriptions are the rule of the day and they will continue long after the economy has been destroyed.

Activity within the hospitals will either be cancelled or strategically planned (as they are now) with less activity and thus less need for employing Doctors, nurses, and hospital staff thus reducing costs which the government in most countries pay for through government budget money “borrowed” from private banks owned by the wealthy class.

Here’s How they Will Destroy our Healthcare System

As the costs of the COVID shutdown continue to be paid by borrowed money (240+ Billion in Canada), the IMF and financial institutions like the ECB (depending where you live and what banking families control your currency) will tell your government(s) that in order to escape higher interest rates on their borrowed money, they will have to sell off government-controlled health care programs to "Private" interests. ie: Pharmaceutical corporations and insurance corporations so they can reduce government cost while stating they will better manage the program. Doing so it will be said, lowers the governments economic burden and allows governments to continue borrowing money at a low interest rate for their national budgets which will need to be paid back with compounding interest [10].

Once the healthcare system is handed over, they will do what all corporations do, cut services to reduce costs and begin charging to make a profit. Costs will then be associated with all services which will go through an online evaluation. These costs will go up incrementally but will begin marginalizing large portions of the population who will not be able to afford healthcare simply because they are either no longer employed or are working for lower wages and can’t afford it…which is where the insurance companies come in and condition your healthcare coverage on the amount you are able to spend if you have any money at all.

If you don’t think they’ll touch your healthcare, think again. Right after the recession in the 1990’s [11], the IMF told Canada to reduce its hospital capacity by 30% and the government complied.

At the 2021 World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Russian President, Vladimir Putin spoke [11a] of declining incomes in developed nations with rising education and healthcare costs.

“In the past 30 years, in a number of developed countries, the real incomes of over half of the citizens have been stagnating, not growing. Meanwhile, the cost of education and healthcare services has gone up. Do you know by how much? Three times.”

“In other words, millions of people even in wealthy countries have stopped hoping for an increase of their incomes. In the meantime, they are faced with the problem of how to keep themselves and their parents healthy and how to provide their children with a decent education.”

While this fake pandemic continues, the unemployment rate will continue to skyrocket, massive amounts of capital will be wiped out, populations will be under lockdowns and curfews while the wealthy class go about their lives uninterrupted.

Incidentally, those that control the banking institutions and mega corporations never worry during an economic crash because they simply own the institutions that create the money and the political means to make laws in their favor and thus the courts by virtue of upholding those laws. In the end, ie: at margin call, their banks and corporations get it all.

Those that will feel the mortal stabs of economic hardship are you, me and everyone that works to make our communities run.

Conclusion:

The continued refusal by government officials to look into the facts presented by Doctors, specialists and professionals regarding lockdowns, masks, PCR testing facts, Influenza and the proper solutions, shows without a doubt our governments collusion with not only the Chinese Government but also with the Western Economic Cartel of Banks and Corporations.

This accusation is not only for the eyes and ears of Canadians but for the people of all western nations that are under the same assault.

Corporate Control

The structure of a Corporation is top-down rule, it does not care about the environment, community or the people that work for them. All they care about is the bottom line and profit margin for their shareholders. It is totalitarian in the governance of its workers and as it gets larger becomes economically political.

Corporations that exist in capitalist societies, eventually grow to the point that their owners or majority stock holders can control societies, especially when collusion is made by those who have the majority of shares in thousands of companies. The governance of the country is then run by the economic and political power these entities harbor, including the institutions they endorse with funds such as “The World Health Organization” under the arm of the United Nations, who can, with one false pandemic statement, decide the fate of global economics.

China was molded by those within the western economic cartel who provided China with the initial funding, corporate migration, resources if needed and markets for their economic rise as the most technologically advanced, economically stable, most populous and most totalitarian nation in the world today. China is not a communist country as many seem to believe, it is a totalitarian nationalist socialist country with an iron fist that emerged out of the internal struggle of the Communist party [03] with western imperial help.

China is an economic monster that our western wealthy class together with western politicians have created. The wealthy political class in the east and west have merged and are about to launch a new dystopian global economy.

The "Economic Reset" [12] that is coming in 2021 will merge all nations into a new global corporate totalitarian paradigm that will control every aspect of our lives, and impoverish our nations unless we do something to put a stop to it.

If you are just as concerned as I am, here’s one way to fight back, join Randy Hillier’s fight at the following link (Randy Hillier Letter & Report [13]) For those in other countries, download the report and copy / edit the letter for your own representatives in your country.

I encourage all Canadians to contact your provincial or territorial representative

However, we can also play the devil’s advocate and say that China could at any moment, decide they no longer want to be in business with the western economic cartel…then where does that leave everyone? Who would be able to stop them once our countries have been economically destroyed?

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LINKS:

[01] Randy Hillier’s Letter
[02] Research Report
[03] China’s Rise (Part 1) Internal Struggle
[04] Dominic Barton Canada’s Ambassador to China
[04a] McKinsey & Company

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

The Reset of Canadian Society and the World

 


By: Stewart Brennan

Source: Alternative Views

The Great Reset [01] will not just be a global financial one, it will also be a reset of society with a sharp curve in freedoms including freedom of movement and freedom of speech where censorship will become the norm. Hell, it's already here! A second round of lockdowns are happening all over Europe, the commonwealth of countries and North America just as I said would happen in an article I wrote in August 2020 titled, “The COVID 2nd Wave Will Tear Our Communities Apart”[02]. All the OECD nations have continued their COVID collective madness by going into full clamp down on their citizens, province by province, state by state, nation by nation. The draconian laws they are imposing on citizens are destroying the fabric of our societies and economies as small business takes the full hit while the major corporations that are part of the economic cartel all get a green light to continue operating.

This time the OECD governments are using a rise in false positive COVID tests as the reason to destroy their people and their nations. Not only are the tests inaccurate[03a,b](see here and here) and produce false positives but these false results through the massive testing they are pushing on the public is being used as the reason to shut down society.

Why do our governments and mainstream media not provide evidence of this so called, serious pandemic? Do you see a stream of ambulances rushing down your streets? Are your Hospitals overflowing and burdened by a plague stricken population?! Or do you just believe what you are told by mainstream news and government? Where’s the professional proof and why are they locking us down!? Why are doctors, professors and professionals being censored when bringing the real facts and figures to light?![04] (See also here[05] and here[06])

CANADA

Incremental steps to a full totalitarian dictatorship continue to roll out in Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced [07] that his government has tapped the Canadian Military [08] to administer unproven and highly suspect vaccines [09] to the Canadian population. Vaccines that come from “for profit only” pharmaceutical corporations that have been given immunity from prosecution [10] by our government! Do you really trust these people?! I mean, prove to me that these vaccines are NOT dangerous! They can’t! Which is why they gave these corporations immunity from prosecution and rubber stamped their approval.

As mentioned in some of my earlier posts, those who refuse these very dangerous vaccines[11] will not be allowed to participate in community. Everyone's personal medical files are now online as I discovered and wrote about in my last article “Draconian COVID Laws Strangling Quebec Healthcare”[12]. Once they decide to remove the lockdown, there will be conditions imposed on the population. It’s fairly easy to assume that those who’ve had the unsafe shot will be allowed a “new normal” life, those who did not get the shot will remain in lockdown. They will use medical files which are now online to confirm if you received the vaccine or not. If you do not accept the vaccine, you will not be allowed to participate in society. That means, no concerts, no movies, no sports, no schools, no work, shopping, grocery stores, banks, government buildings etc. Nothing! Why are they forcing the vaccine on Canadian society by the Military?! Think about that! Do you think this is a conspiracy? Well it is a conspiracy, a real conspiracy which is an attack on our individual constitutional rights, freedoms and our communities!

We're all under surveillance in today’s online and cell phone world, a surveillance which is going to become worse. We are actually already there by virtue of the draconian COVID mask laws, lockdowns and mass censorship on people and communities. But as this BS COVID-19 operation continues to unfold, we will see each country become a sector or unit in this global reset and new world order that is being imposed by a consolidated economic cartel. (See World Economic Forum[01])

Government Dictatorship Expanding:

Buying Non essential items has become illegal in Manitoba[13] for the entire population, that means its illegal to buy Christmas presents which means no Christmas for the Children of Manitoba!! Let me tell you, I lived in Manitoba for two years (2007 to 2009) and saw how deeply disturbing the divide was between rich and poor. I lived it. Manitoba governments at every level are oppressive towards its people and are in bed with corporate interests. The population has suffered through massive poverty through low paying jobs, high inflation on housing, rent, food, energy and they are taxed on everything but the air they breathe…Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister should be tarred and feathered and then run out of town by the people of Manitoba for what he is doing.

In Ontario and Quebec, the Provincial governments of Ford and Legault are just as totalitarian and fascist as the Manitoba Premier, with their COVID legislation. (Ontario [14] & Quebec [15]) Where laws are made to close down all small businesses but allow the major corporations to remain open!

For example, only big corporate restaurants are allowed to open but the little guy is squashed and forced to close under severe penalty of the law where an army of police will descend on these family businesses, close them, fine and arrest the owners.

Adam Skelly of Adamson Barbeque, the working class restaurateur who defied Toronto’s pandemic lockdown, was arrested[16], handcuffed, and taken away by Toronto police. He was released 30 hours later on a $50,000.00 dollar bail!! with strict bail conditions imposed by Toronto's medical officer of health who ordered Adamson BBQ’s locks changed, the building seized and that Adam Skelly must stay 200 metres away from Adamson Barbecue. He cannot operate or direct any business except in accordance with Ontario’s Reopening Act. He is forbidden from communicating on all social media platforms and must obey orders and laws handed down by Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams and Toronto’s medical officer of health, Dr. Eileen de Villa. Adam Skelly will appear in court again on Jan. 4, 2021…his fight continues.

If that’s not totalitarian governance, I don’t know what is…all across Canada Draconian laws are being implemented with severe retaliation by authorities including massive fines[17], jail and violent arrests.

Adam’s fight continues but it’s not his fight alone, it is OUR FIGHT!

If you don't see the abuse of power[18] then you’ve been indoctrinated into a totalitarian plot much the same way the people of Germany were in the 1930’s. It's people like that who allow totalitarianism to grow and take hold in a nation.

Every atrocity in history happened because the public gave away their freedoms to the state which promised safety from some orchestrated menace. THIS is such a time.

I will also point out that when totalitarianism was defeated in the past, those who were the instruments of violence all claimed that they were just following orders…

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO FOLLOW ORDERS! NOW IS THE TIME TO DISOBAY ORDERS AND PROTECT THE PEOPLE AND OUR COMMUNITIES!

All the WWII soldiers that served to protect our countries from fascism must be rolling in their graves!

The Economic Reset of 2021

The coming economic reset in 2021 will embrace, push and activate a 5G microwave soup that will, in essence, bathe you in deadly microwave radiation and put you behind electronic bars. In other words, you will not be able to go anywhere without the states knowledge. You’ll have zero freedom without privacy, you will not be allowed to complain about it because if you do, you will experience the belligerent side of totalitarianism, the degree of which will depend on how defiant you are and how sensitive the topic is for the state, (Think China)…just ask independent news journalists or whistleblowers about their past and current experiences such as Bradley Manning or Julian Assange! Hell, ask anyone on the street all over the world protesting their lockdowns!

The only humans that will have total freedom are the economic cartels puppet masters and their governing sector politicians who own controlling shares of everything on this planet… and they are NOT nice people as you must attest to by now!

Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss and don’t bother getting on your knees to pray, for it is not going to go away…you’ve all been fooled again.

China Rises

China rises without the western styled lockdown, mostly because China had already taken their citizens freedom away years ago…where questioning the state will forbid a citizen to travel or depending on sensitivity and exposure, provide a citizen with a one-way ticket to their penal system or whatever comes next after an execution for not obeying their “LAWS”.

China has been embraced by the World Economic forum as a model that the western economic cartel will put in place to lead the next century. Hell, China has been given most of the western manufacturing capacity and the energy to power itself into being! None of it could have happened without the blessing of the economic cartel, and your successive governments through the corporate and banking economic system that has controlled the economic direction of the world for the past 300 years.

5G & The Digital Future

China has already turned their country into a digital police state, but so has the west through mega corporations, social media, mainstream media and governments connected to the western economic cartel. The article, “Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID”[19] written by Lydia Khalil are exactly what the economic cartel are implementing all over the world through the COVID-19 operation. The end result will be a world population controlled by a Digital New World Order where all of your information, medical records, banking information, social media history, and activity will be recorded and available 24-7, with strict laws prohibiting speech, movement, actions and defiance to government dictates.

The reason we are seeing the long duration of this COVID event in the west is because, the west is 2 years behind China’s 5G technology. A technology that is not completely in place in North America and Europe yet but is rapidly going live in China. 5G and AI technology with their invasive operations will end our freedom and privacy. The “Fourth Industrial Revolution”[20] declared by the World Economic Forum is what will power the dystopian future if left in the hands of the governing tyrants…here is your job creator in the west with a massive re-education program now currently taking place in schools and on the streets streamlined through by the draconian COVID laws being implemented throughout Europe and North America.

The old U.S. economic reserve currency shoe is about to fall with a new economic system already up and running…and waiting…when combined with the COVID-19 operation you get the perfect storm for transformation from old to new, but with a Chinese styled totalitarian governance which has unfolded on our western communities through a series of intrusive government laws and dictates.

The new economic reset planned by the global economic cartel, that is found in detail on the “World Economic Forums” website is going to consolidate everyone into its digital matrix. Say goodbye to your privacy and your freedoms, your owners have spoken and they don’t like anyone that disobeys them…just ask anyone that has defied their mask and lockdown laws.

Fighting Back

James Corbitt recently said [21], "If you are advocating for lockdowns, you are complicit in tearing families apart. You are complicit in inflicting untold suffering on millions of people around the world. You are complicit in casting the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies into even further grinding poverty. You are complicit in murder." Yes, I would have to agree with that statement, because its true.

For all of you fearful covid freaks who get a dopamine high by all the fear mongering, there is something more dangerous coming your way, it’s called totalitarianism and its being rolled out under the guise of COVID-19 laws that will not disappear as the moral ethical leadership in our communities have. Draconian governance is going to stay long after the covid operation has been completed, and yes, a New World Order will rise by your dependence on a system that has you in a cage of fear. Our only chance to stop this tyranny from stomping out freedom, independence and community forever is to stand up and fight! Defy everything they throw at us! Refuse their lockdowns, their mask laws, their gathering restrictions, their business closings, their protest restrictions, their mandatory testing, and their pseudo-vaccines! Put your fears aside and Join us to save our communities and way of life! A revolution has begun in almost every western nation and it must grow if we are to defeat totalitarianism and those in power that wield it to destroy our communities.

The public has not been included in any type of future planning. We are only to obey draconian laws and accept what they have in store for us…they are supposed to do what “we say”, not the other way around. So, demand a seat at the table. Fight for your future! Defiance to the unjust laws imposed on our small businesses, communities and way of life is our duty as citizens! Fight for your children, grandchildren and the many generations after who will be forever enslaved if we do not act now. END the LOCKDOWNS and OPEN UP SOCIETY! Now is the time to rise up! Rise and FIGHT!

[22] Protest in Toronto Nov 28, 2020


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LINKS:

[01] The World Economic Forum: The Great Reset

[02] The COVID 2nd Wave Will Tear Our Communities Apart

[03a] Landmark legal ruling finds that COVID tests are not fit for purpose. So what do the MSM do? They ignore it

[03b] A global team of experts has found 10 FATAL FLAWS in the main test for Covid

[04] Council Meeting Privately Recorded in EDMONTON Alberta Canada With Dr Roger Hodkinson

[05] Epidemiologist Dr Knut Wittkowski - 'There is no fundamental difference between the flu and COVID'

[06] Doctors Sharing the Truth that Your Masks Do Not Protect you from Coronavirus

[07] Trudeau Turns to Military to Distribute Vaccines to Canada

[08] Ex-NATO mission head tapped to lead Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout

[09] Dirty Vaccines – Every Human Vaccine Tested

[10] Exempting Big Pharma from COVID-19 Vaccines Liability

[11] Vaccination – Basic Concerns

[12] Draconian COVID Laws Strangling Quebec Healthcare

[13] Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is the “Premier Who Stole Christmas”

[14] Ontario Government - COVID-19: Orders & Bylaws

[15] Quebec Government - Instructions and directives (COVID-19)

[16] Adamson BBQ'S Adam Skelly Arrested

[17] Massive Fines

[18] Ontario’s Abuse of Police Powers

[19] Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID

[20] The Fourth Industrial Revolution

[21] What NO ONE is Saying About The Lockdowns

[22] Protest in Toronto Nov 28, 2020


Monday, November 5, 2012

Division is the Tool of Choice by the Ruling Class in Quebec and Canada



Photo By: SFBrennan Art

Written By: Stewart Brennan

Governing policy has never really changed much in Quebec or Canada, regardless of perception of who makes the laws or controls the wealth.

The fact is, that the people from all the provinces and territories within Canada are controlled by an elitist group that hold power at every level of government, where legislation is used to divide and conquer via cultural and language divisions.

Keeping our communities at each others throats is the tactic used by those that control the wealth, especially when attention begins to focus on what they are really doing.

Consider that every law that is passed, by any level of government, works in favour of someone or some company that is either bent on aquiring or selling something that is not theirs or is to protect them from liability from past legislation that gave them control to buy or sell something that was not theirs.

Division has worked well for the Elite Across Canada.

Let us remember that it isn’t the little people that rule but those that control the money that rule. The people of Canada have been enslaved to serve a system put in place by the wealthy of this and other nations. The “Oligarchy” controls all aspects within the system and has cornered every market while quelling the resistance against them.

What we are told to do is go to our subservient jobs, pay taxes, and follow every law imposed on us regardless of its tone. To resist is to be imprisoned or threatened by the security system they have put in place. Ideally, the Police force is used for their own protection and not the protection of society as the lessons from the G20 meetings in Toronto, or the Student protests in Montreal clearly illustrated.



Video: Peaceful Protesters are attacked after singing Canadian National Anthem on Queen Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2010)



Video: Violence erupts as Riot police attack student protest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2012)

Put in our place.

When the population protests government decisions, there is complete silence by the mainstream media on the real issues surrounding the protests and a deafness towards the peoples complaints by an out of touch Parliament. They have our best interests at hand or so they tell us.

We are then told that to change the decisions they have made, we have the democratic right to make change through the political process and choose one of the parties the Oligarchy bankrolls and parades in front of us…does anyone really think there is a mainstream political party that has not been bought and paid for?

The power structure that governs us politically, socially, and economically in Canada are decidedly parasitic against everyone and are the root causes of all the economic hardships we endure and will continue to endure if something is not done. The establishment controls the wealth and power by their ownership of all the banks, land and major corporations. We are just pawns to be used in a Banking Kingdom and Fife.

One of the illusions given by those in control is that our local, Provincial, and Federal tax dollars go into taking care of the community…however, we are never allowed to know how much they collect, or where the money is spent. To make things worse, corrupt government allowed our Central Bank to give away the power to issue money.

The Bank of Canada gave away the issuance of the Canadian Dollar to privately owned banks who then started to “Loan us our own money”, PLUS, we had to pay our own money back to them with interest! This little known fact happened in 1974 under the watch, of then, Canadian Prime Minister, “Pierre Elliot Trudeau”. However, this practice of thievery was known by all other political parties and allowed to continue by every Governing Provincial and Federal Governments since.



Video: Canada Issued Debt-Free Money From 1935-1974

The “National Debt” and thus “Provincial Debt” is controlled by a foreign group of elitest bankers who have taken control of all our wealth by charging us compound interest on money that was never intended for them to issue. Where before, when the Bank of Canada issued the money, we didn’t have to pay interest back because it was our own money being created by our own bank, and therefore controlled only by Canadians.

The Politicians will not return us to debt free money or even address it because they are owned by the corporate structures that control the very same avenues of theft. It does not matter which political party is in power because all parties are controlled by corporate and banking interests that run the entire power structure. Politicians will evade the banking theft question whenever pressed.

The compound interest that has taken hold of our tax dollars is the sole reason that we have soaring inflation, tax increases across the board, a loss in purchasing power, a loss of social services, increased unemployment, a rapid increase in poverty, homelessness, and rise in crime. The monetary system and those that control what has been in place since 1974 is directly responsible for our hardships.

Today in Canada we face a growing foreign takeover of all our infrastructure, wealth and resources by greedy interests. An outrageous example of this is the take over bid by Chinese "State Owned" CNOOC of the Canadian privately owned corporation NEXEN. (See video below.)


Video: China’s CNOOC has agreed to buy Canada’s NEXEN for 15.1 Billion Dollars

When there is no more money available to pay back debt, you lose everything of value that you have as a Nation.

Today in Quebec and Canada all our tax money is going to pay off the compound interest on the principal of a debt that is controlled by private foreign elitist bankers instead of going into the community. This fact is the sole reason why our country’s mineral and resources are being sold down the river to outside groups…here in Quebec the land and everything on it belongs to outside interests, it’s not ours…and that goes for those in Alberta, Ontario and every other Province and or territory.

The more indebted to the international banking cartel we become, the more intertwined we become in the grotesque international hatreds we see unfolding across the World. Our government has told us they have taken sides against people in other nations whom they have no business or right to interfere with. Certainly NOT in my name!!!

My plea to the Canadian people regardless of descent, origin, or status be it English, French, Jew, Muslim, black, white, purple or orange, it’s time to stand together as a unified community, as a nation, and stop the division being inflicted upon us by those that rule!

Common sense, respect, and tolerance to culture and language are expressions of unity and the tools that will free our society from this oppression we face. Standing together is our strength in battling all forms of division that the ruling elite constantly unleash upon our communities. We should be united in telling our government that “If you oppress one part of the community, you oppress all of it, and we do not support you!” We should not tolerate ANY attempts of division what so ever.

This is not a Liberal, Conservative, Separatist, or New Democratic position. It is a position of being a humanist, of having empathy for others, of mutual respect, and being what we hold deer in our hearts as "being Canadian"…To be free…really free.

It’s time to stand up and take back the control of our monetary system from the parasitic private bankers! It’s time to FORCE the government and mainstream media to back down! It’s time to change the system to one that is controlled by the people and not political representatives that cater to the wishes of the corporate few.

How Do We Make Change

How do we do it? We do it by creating direct democracy and establishing criteria that allows people to run for office based on experience in the fields that they hold. We do it by removing the private banks from control of our national currency. We do it by becoming the media, by being open to change, by becoming an economic block, and by our passion for equal rights, respect for one another and belief in the right to exist. We do it together!

No person or culture should be singled out and subject to a muzzle by fear mongering groups or individuals that base their paranoia in propaganda spread by an elitist group and their media, nor should we respect laws that force us all to conform to their racism in all its shapes and forms. No foreign individual, group, or nation should come first over the people of Canada!

Stewart Brennan

Back up Links:

01. Canada a human rights slaughterhouse
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/canada-human-rights-slaughterhouse.html
02. Quebec to come down hard on those defying language laws
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/quebec-to-come-down-hard-on-those.html
03. Canada closes Iranian embassy, suspends diplomatic ties
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/09/canada-closes-iranian-embassy-suspends.html
04. Canadian Premier Harper skips UN General Assembly to get Jewish award
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/09/canadian-premier-harper-skips-un.html
05. Racist Attack by Radio Shock Jock Ruled not Defamatory
http://jimquail.com/2011/02/17/racist-attack-not-defamatory/
06. Quebec New Years Special draws complaints of Racism
http://rabble.ca/babble/central-canada/quebec-new-years-special-draws-complaints-racism
07. Court sides with Quebec DJ turned MP who made racist remarks against Hatian and Arab Cab Drivers
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/court-sides-with-quebec-dj-turned-mp-who-made-racist-screed-against-cabbies/article576433/?service=mobile
08. Montreal-area board considers making French mandatory in schoolyards
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1091534--montreal-area-board-considers-making-french-mandatory-in-schoolyards
09. Quebec French Language Schoolyard Ban on all languages except French
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/23/quebec-french-language-schoolyard-ban_n_1110929.html
10. PQ Accused of Political Takeover of Quebec Schools
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/11/less-english-and-more-sovereignty-pq-accused-of-political-takeover-of-quebec-schools/
11. Bill 78: Worst Law since War Measures Act
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/18/bill-78-quebec-protests-war-measures-act_n_1528309.html
12. Canada Issued Debt-Free Money From 1935-1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxD2-lQwYa8
13. G20 Stand-Off with Riot Police on Queen Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCiAqslAyA
14. The Crime of the Canadian Banking System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7HMt5MgsDg
15. Video: China’s CNOOC has agreed to buy Canada’s NEXEN for 15.1 Billion Dollars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaazutwgfc
16. Quebec Chamber of Commerce (See members)
http://www.ccquebec.ca/
17. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce (See Members)
http://www.chamber.ca/
18. Quebec: Huge protest supports striking students, denounces Bill 78
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/05/quebec-huge-protest-supports-striking.html
19. US-Canada “Terror Justice”: I Will Never Forget Omar Khadr
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/us-canada-terror-justice-i-will-never.html
20. Canadians call for increased state control of natural resources
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/canadians-call-for-increased-state.html
21. Allowing China's CNOOC to buy Canadian oil company would be treason, MP says
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/allowing-chinas-cnooc-to-buy-canadian.html

Friday, October 26, 2012

Quebec to come down hard on those defying language laws


 
People in Quebec protest the government's plan to toughen the province’s language laws (file photo).

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/26/268783/quebec-to-give-teeth-to-language-laws/

Quebec's new government is about to enable more strict enforcement of the language laws in the French-speaking Canadian province.

The Parti Quebecois provincial government plans to update the Charter of the French language, also known as Bill 101, which defines French -- the language spoken by the majority of Quebec’s population -- as the province’s official language.

Bill 101 was originally passed in 1977 to protect the French language in the province. It banned the use of English in public signs and posters. It also prevented immigrants from sending their children to English-speaking schools.

The newly-proposed version of the charter will give more power to the so-called language police to fine and supposedly bring to justice those who defy it.

It will also close down all English-speaking private bridging schools and require all businesses with more than 11 employees to use French in their communications.

The new separatist party, led by Pauline Marois, is fighting against, what it calls, the Anglicization of Quebec.

The Liberal leadership candidate, Justin Trudeau, said it was not necessary to toughen the language laws.

“I think we are revisiting old debates,” Trudeau was quoted as saying. “The majority of people in Papineau in Quebec City and across Quebec are focused on their jobs, the economy, health, and education of their children to participate fully in this era of globalization in which we live.”

Friday, September 21, 2012

New Quebec premier scraps tuition hike plan


 

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/21/262744/quebec-kills-tuition-hike-plan/

Newly-elected Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has reversed a planned tuition hike that touched off months of violent protests in Canada's French-speaking province.

Marois, who started her job on Thursday, delivered on her electoral pledge to reinstate the USD 2,220 tuition.

“The new government is now in place,” she told reporters after the first cabinet meeting. “I intend to act rapidly to offer results to Quebecers, starting today, Day One of our mandate.”

The former premier, Jean Charest, had planned to increase tuition fees in a bid to make up for the country’s budget deficit.

Marois said she will also cancel the Liberals' controversial anti-protest law, known as Bill 78. The draconian law, whose main objective was to restrict freedom of assembly, criminalizes students’ strike and sets rules for gatherings of more than 50 people, requiring organizers to provide an eight-hour notice of the itinerary and length of the event.

"These two decisions will allow us to return peace to our streets and to reestablish rights and liberties," Marois was quoted as saying.

The new premier’s move drew applause from student groups.

"It's a victory for justice and equality," said Martine Desjardins, president of the FEUQ university student association.

"Together, we have written a chapter in the history of Quebec. Together, we have just proven that we can stand up and reach one of the student movement's greatest victories," he added.

Ahead of elections earlier this month, Marois had said that if her party - Parti Quebecois (PQP) - won and was able to form a new Quebec government, she would call for a referendum on the separation of Quebec from Canada.

 

Friday, September 7, 2012

Quebec premier announces resignation after electoral defeat


Quebec's outgoing Premier Jean Charest

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/07/260220/quebec-premier-announces-resignation/

Jean Charest has announced his resignation as the head of Quebec's ruling Liberal Party and consequently the province’s premier, a day after the party suffered a humiliating defeat in the provincial elections.

Charest, who has been the premier of the majority French-speaking province for nine years, said on Wednesday that he had decided to leave politics in the coming days after consulting with his family.

"The decision was unanimous. I will leave my post as leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec in a few days, once a new government is formed," he told reporters at a news conference at the National Assembly in Quebec City.

Charest said he was stepping down without regrets. “I'm going home now. I thank you for the privilege that you gave me to enable me to be your premier."

On Tuesday, the 54-year-old lost his seat to Pauline Marois of the Parti Quebecois (PQ), who will become the province's first woman premier.

The PQ formed a minority government by winning 54 of the provincial legislature’s 125 seats. With 50 seats, the Liberal Party was relegated to the opposition.

The liberals started losing popularity after proposing a university tuition fee hike, which sparked months of massive street protests across the province.

The newly-elected prime minister has promised to revoke the controversial tuition hike.

During the electoral campaigns, Marois also promised that if elected, she would call for a referendum on the separation of Quebec from Canada.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Quebec provincial elections to begin


Major candidates for Quebec provincial elections, Coalition Avenir Québec party leader Francois Legault (L) Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois, incumbent premier Jean Charest (R)

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/04/259746/quebec-provincial-elections-to-begin/

Voters in Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec will cast their ballots in provincial elections, with a separatist party looking to return to power.

Voters in Quebec will head to the polls on Tuesday, amid rising frustration with the current government led by Liberal leader Jean Charest, who has been in power for about a decade.

According to the latest opinion polls conducted by Forum Research, the pro-independence opposition party, Parti Quebecois, was in the lead with 36 percent of the votes and the incumbent Liberal party stood at second place with 29 percent. The polls also showed that the Coalition Avenir Quebec Party (CAQ) received 25 percent of the votes.

Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois earlier said that if she won the elections for a new Quebec government, she would call for a referendum on the separation of Quebec from Canada.

Marois also pledged that she would roll back the government’s proposed tuition fee rises, if her party won the elections.

Since February, students have been protesting against the hikes and the provincial government’s controversial anti-protest Bill 78. The protests later turned into a larger movement dubbed as the “maple revolution,” which reveals deeper social unrest.

 

Friday, June 1, 2012

No end in sight for Canada student protests as tuition talks collapse


Students protesting tuition fee increases on May 30, 2012 in Montreal

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/01/244072/talks-to-end-quebec-protests-collapsed/

Canada’s eastern province of Quebec is bracing for more mass demonstrations as talks between students and the provincial authorities aimed at ending months of anti-tuition hikes protests were deadlocked.

Four days of talks over the proposed tuition fee rises reached an impasse on Thursday after Premier Jean Charest’s government walked away from the negotiating table and refused to change its plan to increase university fees.

The talks were considered as the provincial government’s last chance for an immediate resolution to end the mass demonstrations that has swept across the country for about four months.

Student unions have asked for a tuition freeze but the government has ruled it out and passed an anti-protest law to limit student demonstrations across the province.

Student union leaders believed that the government had no intention to compromise with students to end the conflict, and that Minister of Education Michelle Courchesne only used the students as pawns in a political game.

“The Minister of Education said that for political reasons she could not accept a freeze on tuition fees,” spokesman for the student group CLASSE, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, said.

“The government is using the youth to make political gains. They only wanted to sit us down for a public relations move, for a political move, not to negotiate,” said Martine Desjardins, president of the Quebec federation of university students.

The student groups then called on students to pour into the streets of Montreal again on Saturday to voice their opposition to the government’s plans.

Over 2,500 people have been arrested since student protests began in February at over a dozen colleges and universities in Quebec.

The protests against tuition hikes spread throughout the country.

Thousands of people marched in Toronto On Wednesday in solidarity with protesters in Quebec.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International called on Quebec authorities to rescind the emergency law, which outlines strict regulations for demonstrations and conditions of heavy fines for students and their federations.

Two United Nations special reporters also voiced concerns on Wednesday, urging “federal and provincial governments of Canada and Quebec to fully respect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, expression and association of students affected by two new legislations.”


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Government Repression of Quebec Student Movement Sparks Massive Protests



By: Roger Annis

Source: Global Research

Quebec's student movement and the swelling ranks of its popular allies staged a massive rally and march in Montreal on May 22 in favour of the students’ fight for free, quality public education and against government repression. Estimates by some mainstream news outlets and by independent observers place the number of participants as high as 400,000. It was the largest social protest in Canadian history and amounted to a massive display of civil disobedience against a special law adopted by the Quebec government four days earlier that aims to break a more than three-month long strike of post-secondary students in the province.

Lead banners on the march read, “100 days of strike, 100 days of (government) contempt!” and “Block the sexist tuition fee hike!” A massive banner of the militant, CLASSE student association was carried overhead by hundreds of marchers and read, “May 22: This is only the beginning!”

Contingents of teachers, professors, high school students, public service workers and other trade unionists joined the march. Marchers bused into Montreal from across the province while people streamed into the city center from neighborhoods throughout the metropolitan region. French-language media termed the march a “monster” demonstration. Montreal's English language daily covered its front page with an aerial photo of the march and a headline reading “River of Red,” referring to the symbolic color of the student movement (symbolizing student indebtedness) that was omnipresent that day.

Leaders of the three largest student associations held an impromptu press conference along the route of the march. Léo Bureau-Blouin of the association of junior college (CEGEP) students (the FECQ) told journalists, “We are united today in this huge demonstration aiming not only to mark 100 days of the strike but also to denounce the Charest (Quebec) government and the course of events following its decision to choose repression over discussion...”

Referring to the draconian Bill 78 that was adopted by Quebec's National Assembly on May 18 and that effectively proscribes the right of students to strike and to protest, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, a leader of CLASSE, the largest of the student federations, told reporters that the law is “absurd and unenforceable. The proof of that is here today, where the street is speaking forcefully.” Challenging Quebec's minister of public security, he stated, “If the minister wants to be true to his law, he will have to levy fines on tens of thousands of people.”

Cops Wield Truncheons and Handcuffs

The students are on strike to block a proposed 75 per cent hike in post-secondary tuition fees over the next seven years. Many consider their fight to be one front in a broader struggle for a society of social and environmental justice.

François-Xavier Clermont, a student at CEGEP du Vieux-Montréal, told the Montreal daily La Presse, “We are fighting against the tuition hike, but we're also fighting against the Northern Plan (a proposal by the Quebec government to expand natural resource exploitation in the vast, north of the province) and against this corrupt government.” He continued, “We have succeeded in opening up a debate over the future of Quebec society. This is already a victory.”

The government of Premier Jean Charest has made an apparent about-face in agreeing to resume talks with the student associations on May 28. But this comes on the heels of a massive escalation of repression in the preceding days, so the government's intent is not clear.

During the evening of May 23, provincial and municipal police forces arrested 518 protesters in Montreal and 150 in Quebec City. Thirty six were arrested two nights earlier in Sherbrooke. The number of arrests in Montreal that evening exceeds those during the infamous declaration of martial law by the Canadian government in October 1970.

Police held the arrested Montreal protesters in buses overnight. The cops had declared an evening protest “illegal” under municipal regulations. One young woman who was detained told CBC Radio that police acted like “animals.” The detainees were denied bathroom access and one man who suffered a cardiac emergency was denied emergency medical treatment. The fine for the alleged offences is $634.

Commentators widely noted that while the arrests in Quebec City and Sherbrooke were done in the name of Bill 78, the eventual charges were for violations of municipal regulations or provincial traffic laws. The government is without doubt aware of the tenuous legality of its law. A two-front legal challenge to Bill 78 has been launched by lawyers on behalf of the student associations. They are seeking a ruling that the law is unconstitutional, which could take a year or more. More immediately, they want the Quebec court to immediately suspend the law's applicability.

Bill 78 allows for fines of student associations that could easily bankrupt them. It assigns criminal responsibility to the associations if they fail to control the acts of their individual members.

While there were few arrests during the monster demonstration on May 22, 113 people were arrested at the evening protest that followed. Some 2,500 arrests have been made since the onset of the student strike.

Repression is Backfiring

The government is counting on a combination of threats, fines and police violence to quell and eventually discourage the student movement. But the opposite is happening – the protest movement is growing. The nightly protests in Montreal that students and supporters have been waging for 30 consecutive nights are now growing exponentially. Roger Rashi, a longtime activist with the Quebec solidaire party, reports that the nightly march of May 24 drew several tens of thousands of participants, ten or twenty times the pre-Bill 78 nightly numbers. What's more, multiple marches are taking place concurrently.

One of the inspirations of the spreading movement is “Angry Mothers in Solidarity” (Mères en colère et solidaires). Nightly, spontaneous protests by mothers in support of the students began weeks ago in working-class districts in the center of Montreal such as Rosemont, Villeray, and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. It began with the banging of pots and pans each evening from apartment balconies and streets, gradually emerging into street protests.

The “pots and pans” movement has now coalesced into multiple, nightly marches and is spreading like wildfire throughout the province. (RT Video Link).

Pots & Pans Protest: Angry Canadians make a bang


Timing and locations each evening are coordinated via Twitter. Thousands of mothers from the movement joined the May 22 March. “I march alongside the other mothers because I am one, but this is really about future generations,” Marie Christine Chabot, 45, a nurse, told the Montreal daily The Gazette on the May 22 march. “The more that education is accessible to everyone, the more society is likely to make the right choices. I see it in my work: People with more education smoke less, eat better, exercise more, and have less stress. We'd all be better off if people were better educated.” 

“It's important to show it's not just students out in the streets protesting,” Marie-Claude Gagnon, a social worker and founder of Mères, told the paper. “The symbol of mothers is a good one, and it also helps protect us in the crowd,” said Gagnon, whose children are aged 3, 9 and 13. “The police think twice about wading into a group of mothers and children.”

A new website invites people to post personal declarations of defiance of Bill 78 by posting a photo of themselves along with their written dedication. Called “Arrest Me, Someone!” (Arretez-moi, quelqu'un!) The site has more than 5,000 declarations and the number is growing.

Protesters of all political persuasions are also taking to wearing face covering, in defiance of a Montreal municipal law rushed into adoption May 17 and a similar law threatened by the federal government that makes it illegal to wear a face covering (mask) at a protest declared “illegal.”

A micro-brewery has placed its ‘Grande Noirceur’ beer on special sale. The name translates as ‘the great darkness,’ a term deeply embedded in popular culture that describes the years of rightist government in Quebec under Premier Maurice Duplessis from 1944 to 1959.

The brewery says its daily production is limited to less than 50 bottles in deference to the provision of Bill 78 that requires protests of more than 50 people to seek advanced police permission.

Trade unions, opposition political parties and the Quebec Bar Association have all denounced Bill 78 and called on the government to reach a negotiated settlement with the students.

Discussion Over the Future of the Struggle

The largest student association, CLASSE, is calling for defiance of Bill 78. That issue is being widely discussed among progressive social and political forces, including among members of the Québec solidaire party. The party has voiced strong support for the strike and its members have mobilized.

During the course of May 22 protest, CLASSE did not inform the police of its route for the protest that day, as required by Law 78. The two other large student associations as well as the large trade union contingents joining with them on the march did so. Nevertheless, the vast majority of demonstrators followed the lead of CLASSE in marching on the route of their choosing for hours through the downtown core of the city, including during the afternoon rush hour. The police were powerless to act.

Some student and union leaders quietly project an eventual, electoral outcome to the struggle over tuition fees and the broader issues it has sparked. The opposition Parti québécois, which is supported by most trade union centrals, sits well in polls. The bourgeois nationalist party says it would immediately repeal Law 78 if elected.

But it's not at all clear if the government can call an election. It has problems not just with the student struggle but also with a corruption scandal weighing heavily on it. Last year, the government was obliged to convene a special commission of inquiry into the close ties between the criminal syndicates that run much of the construction industry in the province and successive Liberal Party governments.

Coincidentally, the commission began its public hearings on May 21 and these will continue into the autumn months. Testimony is expected to be especially damning to the party and the current government. A recent poll showed 80 per cent of the population believes the Liberal Party to be thoroughly corrupt.

The Parti québécois is also threatened by potential revelations before the commission. The same poll showed 65 per cent of respondents say they consider past PQ governments to be tainted by similar corruption. The party governed the province for 18 of the past 36 years.

Support for the student strike in Quebec from the rest of Canada has been building, albeit slowly. Students and unions in Ottawa are organizing a solidarity action on May 29, to include a march across the Ottawa River into the neighbouring Gatineau region of Quebec. Ottawa students have already joined several actions in Quebec, including the May 22 march. Hundreds of people attended a solidarity rally in Vancouver on May 22. In Ontario, a student solidarity network has been formed to step up support action in that province.

Trade unions in Canada have provided financial support and contingents of activists came to Montreal for May 22, including Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan. News of the student protest is spreading around the world and solidarity actions have taken place in Paris and New York City.

On the other hand, support from the NDP, the federal party to which many trade unions in English Canada are affiliated, has been all but absent. Party leader Thomas Mulcair explains his party's silence by the fact that education is a provincial responsibility. However, Bill 78 is a massive violation of the rights and freedoms supposedly guaranteed by the Canadian Constitution.

In last year's federal election, the NDP became the official opposition party for the first time in Canadian history. Nearly 60 per cent of the party's MPs represent electoral districts in Quebec. They have apparently been muzzled by the party brass.

The student protest is beginning to worry business interests in the province. A string of large summer events and festivals, including a Grand Prix auto race next month in Montreal, draws hundreds of thousands of cash-wielding visitors each year. Already, hoteliers in Montreal say that bookings in May were down ten percent compared to last year.

In a delicious irony for striking students, a co-leader of CLASSE, Jeanne Reynolds, has won an award for academic excellence from the office of the titular head of the provincial government of Quebec, its Lieutenant Governor. Her “excellence” on the picket lines and in street protests, along with that of tens of thousands of student colleagues, is also winning awards – in the hearts and minds of growing numbers of working-class people in the province.

The Quebec government risks being swept away by a growing tide of human solidarity, with important repercussions for all of Canada. •

Roger Annis is a retired aerospace worker in Vancouver who recently spent time in Montreal reporting on the student strike. He can be reached at
rogerannis@hotmail.com

A legal defense committee for students and student associations in Quebec threatened with legal action has been established and can be reached at the following link. 

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