Mark Carney's Imaginary Sedition
An ugly smear against the Freedom Convoy was supposedly 'beyond doubt.' Yet didn't get mentioned once in 9,100 pages of post-protest testimony.
Part 1: What Mark Carney Said About the Convoy
During the Freedom Convoy protest, Mark Carney wrote a 12-paragraph essay that was published in the Globe and Mail. Many of the protesters who’d converged on Ottawa during the final weekend of January 2022 “undoubtedly had peaceful objectives,” he admitted. But after the protest extended into a second week, he insisted matters had somehow magically changed:
…no one should have any doubt. This is sedition. That’s a word I never thought I’d use in Canada. It means ‘incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.’
A few paragraphs later, Mr Carney emphasized his point:
But by now anyone sending money to the convoy should be in no doubt: You are funding sedition.
Three years later, Mr Carney has a big fat problem. There’s a great deal of testimony on the record, under oath, after the fact about this protest. Testimony by police officers. By the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). By officials from three levels of government, all of which were hostile to the protest.
Over at the Emergencies Act Inquiry website, the 36 official transcripts of that testimony total more than 9,100 pages. I turned to Grok, X/Twitter’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool for help. Here’s what I wanted to know: How many times was the word sedition uttered in those transcripts?
Grok tells me it never happened. Not even once. Grok says it searched through those thousands of pages of testimony (in under one minute). On its own initiative it then searched the five volumes of that Inquiry's final report. And still came up empty.
The man who may soon be Canada’s next prime minister falsely accused the truckers of a very serious crime. He insisted there was no doubt that’s what was going on in downtown Ottawa.
No one seems to have taken him seriously. Not then, and certainly not eight months later, when a full-blown public inquiry commenced.
At the time of the Convoy, Mr Carney was a private citizen who had no reason to say or do anything. Before going out on that very public limb, he could have spent an hour actually talking to the protesters. You know, human being to human being. But there’s no reason to believe he did anything of the sort.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Mr Carney’s idea of leadership.
next installment: Court Jester Mark Carney
Mark Carney represents Canada's elite class, a member of what Thomas Sowell calls " the self-anointed class." His moral certitude makes him comfortable condemning all challenges to his opinion.
But my condemnation is less to him that the utterly deplorable Liberal party of Canada. They remain uncritical of Justin, the sleaze-bag and offer no apologies for supporting 5 years of political hell. Opportunist Jagmeed the snake is not blameless in the sordid tale of applied misery. as are any number of other politicians who had no qualms about being paid for doing nothing while the preditors destroyed a free country.
Fabulous catch, Donna!!!