>>15809057>it was related to the pandemic restrictionsFalse.
>COVID was just a convenient excuse for the Canadian feds to bust their assesThe excuse given was foreign and potentially Russian funding with a side implication of terrorism. Though the deputy PM has since refused to admit to her own government's written reasoning based on a since-retracted CBC article they used to invoke the Emergencies Act.
>The actual motivation was to appease corpos that didn't want their supply chains weakened.Possibly, though any supply chain issues ended up being far smaller than those from the first nations railroad blockades a year or two earlier. There's also the face of the government, of Cabinet, and of the PM, that was being lost. There was the chance that as things continued that the legacy media or somebody would slip up and their side would lose out more on messaging. Assorted livestreams showed a very different picture on the ground than that painted by government media allies.
>which was due in part to the media calling the Canadian government out on its bullshitI wish we had that. The best we can hope for is Rebel News, who while they do report on some otherwise untouchable subjects, often suffer from hyperbole in their commentary. Sometimes the Sun and the National Post balance their adherence to establishment vs hating the Liberal Party enough to get something decent but usually it's just another flavour of shit media.
>yes, outside of the West, they would have probably been killed, or at least had their jail time extended indefinitelyTrue, but the West should be better than that. The evolution of digital unpersoning without proper checks and balances isn't a good thing.
