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You're just piling lie on lie at this point.

A coup attempt with no weapons and no violence. How does that work exactly? The foreign money angle has been debunked by none other than the RCMP and CSIS. Nice CBC talking point though.

The freedom convoy has absolutely correct that the jab mandates and lockdowns were far beyond their sell by date, as the issue had been heavily politicized for the sake of Trudeau trying to secure a majority.

by giantg22 hours ago|

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This is the first I've heard that called a coup. Was there and actual overthrow attempt?

by cmrdporcupine2 hours ago|

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It was clearly communicated by their leaders that they weren't leaving the streets until the government resigned (or "all pandemic measures dropped", which the fed gov't had no power to do as the majority were either provincial mandates or were forced on us by the US gov't)

Also the exact same set of people (and I mean, literally, look up the names of the leaders) tried almost exactly the same thing a few years earlier around carbon tax and environmental issues. But the government was stronger then and Canadians more united.

And yes, they had massive and well documented funding from American conservative lobby groups, in both instances.

by hylaride2 hours ago|

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That's not a coup. That's an illegal protest. They were all a bunch of self-centred idiots, but let's not give them credit for something that it wasn't.

by cmrdporcupine12 minutes ago|

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Illegal protest that involves the dissolution of an elected government, and the leader of the opposition hob-knobbing with them?

Maybe not technically a coup if there's an election held right after, fair. Let's just agree to call it "tried to overthrow the government."

by dismalaf2 hours ago|

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A coup d'état is when you forcibly overthrow a government AND install someone else illegally (usually yourselves). Asking the current government to resign isn't a coup by any definition.

by cmrdporcupine2 hours ago|

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Yes, that's why they had PP bringing them donuts and coffee