Wrecking Ball, Part 3

Member of Parliament thinks the imaginary was real.

Part 1: The Phantom Wrecking Ball
Part 2: Journalists Who Think the Wrecking Ball Was Real
Part 3: Wrecking Ball, Part 3

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NDP MP Matthew Green tries to justify the use of Emergencies Act by claiming there was a "crane with a wrecking ball" hanging above the street at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. But video shows a Canada flag

One last word about the phantom wrecking ball that Freedom Convoy protesters were accused of bringing to Ottawa.

I’ve previously shown how Jody Thomas, a senior government official, believes in this phantom. I’ve written about two journalists who said the phantom was real.

For bonus points, above is a brief video clip from October. In it Matthew Green, an elected Member of Parliament, talks about the wrecking ball as if it really existed. Below is a screenshot from the official transcript:

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Please note that Mr. Green is the joint chair of the Parliamentary Committee established to examine the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act. Eight months after the fact, a chair of that committee believed there was a wrecking ball.

In his words, a crane had been “set up in the middle of the street with a wrecking ball on it.” But that is a complete distortion.

1. There was no wrecking ball.

2. Rather than being a full-fledged crane, this was a flatbed truck equipped with a crane (which is used for loading and unloading goods from the truck).

3. It wasn’t parked in the middle of the street, but in the lane furthest away from the Prime Minister’s Office, closest to the north sidewalk.

4. Three of Wellington Street’s four lanes were full of Freedom Convoy trucks. This flatbed was one truck among many.

When Mr. Green made these remarks, he wasn’t engaged in a private conversation. He was conducting Parliamentary business. Rather than using sober, precise language, he chose the most negative, most prejudicial spin possible - up to and including talking about a wrecking ball that was never there.

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But wait, it gets worse. Those protesting in Ottawa cooked their meals outdoors on BBQs. The public donated food to the truckers non-stop: coolers full of meat, eggs by the flat. Since many of the protesters were barred from entering restaurants due to their vaccination status, they didn’t have a lot of options.

Rather than acknowledge this simple reality, in the above transcript Mr. Green calls the propane tanks that fueled these BBQs “incendiary devices.” People were “coming in with incendiary devices on the steps of the [Prime Minister’s Office] and Parliament,” he complains. He’s talking about the same propane tanks that are attached to the backyard BBQs of millions of Canadians.

Mr. Green is a member of the left-wing New Democratic Party. Once upon a time that party stood up for the working class. Today, it thinks the truckers should have been left to starve. Cripes.

Part 1: The Phantom Wrecking Ball
Part 2: Journalists Who Think the Wrecking Ball Was Real
Part 3: Wrecking Ball, Part 3