{"id":1323051,"date":"2022-02-21T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1323051"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:55:22","slug":"stop-policing-thoughts-globalist-economist-magazine-turns-on-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-policing-thoughts-globalist-economist-magazine-turns-on-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Policing Thoughts\u2019 \u2013 Globalist Economist Magazine Turns on Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstop-policing-thoughts-globalist-economist-magazine-turns-on-trudeau%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1323051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234979692-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s crackdown on the Freedom Convoy movement has drawn criticism from the liberal-leaning <em>Economist<\/em> magazine, which urged the once-darling of the establishment to stop trying to \u201cpolice thoughts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Leading globalist weekly\u00a0<em>The Economist<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/justin-trudeaus-crackdown-on-protests-could-make-things-worse\/21807707\">warned<\/a> that Justin Trudeau\u2019s handling of the anti-vaccine mandate trucker protests threatens to destabilise the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the journal, popular among the Davos set, pronounced Trudeau was too slow in sending in the police to break up convoys that shut down \u201ccrucial highways\u201d and said that \u201cCanada\u2019s government is right to enforce\u201d vaccine mandates at the border to \u201cslow the spread of a deadly and highly infectious disease,\u201d\u00a0it also\u00a0said that \u201cthe truckers have every right to express their disagreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning their ire upon Trudeau, the elite mag wrote: \u201cA wise government would listen to them and respond politely, taking their complaints seriously and patiently explaining why covid restrictions, though onerous, are necessary for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin Trudeau has done the opposite. First, he refused to meet them. Then, seizing on the fact that a few of the protesters appear to be bigots, he attempted to put all of them outside the boundaries of reasonable debate by condemning \u2018the anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-black racism, homophobia and transphobia that we\u2019ve seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days\u2019,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Justin Trudeau\u2026 must be isolated by the democratic international community to show revulsion at his tyrannical actions in Canada against peaceful protesters, who have been trampled under horse hoof&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MxXOE13AsF\">https:\/\/t.co\/MxXOE13AsF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1495431802760187909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2016\/10\/29\/liberty-moves-north\">hailing<\/a> Trudeau\u2019s Canada as a \u201clonely defender\u201d of liberal values and displaying a \u201creassuringly level-headed\u201d approach to governance, <em>The Economist<\/em> blasted his government for seeking to impose \u201ctwo worrying changes to Canada\u2019s already illiberal hate-speech laws\u201d including the possibility of empowering the country\u2019s Human Rights Tribunal to issue fines upon those who use so-called hate speech and allowing individuals to preemptively launch legal complaints against those who they feel may say something hateful in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are both terrible ideas. <em>The Economist<\/em> has long argued that free speech should be restricted only under exceptional circumstances, such as when the speaker intends to incite physical violence,\u201d the magazine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s laws are already more restrictive than this, and the country\u2019s illiberal left would like them to be still more so\u2026 The proposed amendments would give illiberal activists legal tools to harass conservative religious folk, traditional feminists and many more besides, simply for holding views that the left finds offensive. Worse, it would allow some to be gagged before they speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada is not yet a rancorous or bitterly divided society. If Mr Trudeau wants to keep it that way, he should stop trying to police Canadians\u2019 thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We have officers from across the province and country here to help us; every person supporting this effort is proud to be here,&#8221; the police chief said, suggesting that there is little hesitance among officers about enforcing Trudeau&#8217;s trucker crackdown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WnAVsVJU69\">https:\/\/t.co\/WnAVsVJU69<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1495362888919400448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s response to the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d has also been criticised by the other end of the political spectrum in Britain, with Brexit leader Nigel Farage <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/1495100663486894089\">writing<\/a> on Sunday: \u201cI can\u2019t quite believe Trudeau\u2019s behaviour. I knew he was bad, but this is frightening. No better than China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others in Europe have also compared the Trudeau government to Communist China, including Cristian Terhes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Romania, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/20\/reminiscent-of-china-euro-mp-slams-trudeau-for-tyrannical-actions-against-truckers\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart London on Sunday that the\u00a0\u201ctyrannical actions\u201d taken by Trudeau should result in his government being \u201cisolated by the democratic international community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch scenes are reminiscent of China, whose government he wants to imitate, not to Western democracies,\u201d\u00a0Terhes said of the forceful policing taken during the clearing of the protest in Ottowa, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/law-and-order\/2022\/02\/21\/canada-police-confirm-probe-into-alleged-officer-texts-celebrating-trampling-protesters\/\">police horse trampling<\/a> of \u201cpeaceful protesters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s crackdown on the Freedom Convoy movement has drawn criticism from the liberal-leaning Economist magazine, which urged the once-darling of the establishment to stop trying to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}