Very little to say since the trucker convoy.
Despite that Trudeau’s frightening invocation of the Emergencies Act drew, and continue to draw, sharp and nearly universal international condemnation, in Canada CBC and CTV have stood loyally and propagandistically by him. They lie repeatedly to their viewers and readers to protect his actions. All of the Canadian MSM does.
When I lived in Chile during the dictatorship of Pinochet, there was more press freedom and diversity of opinion than there is presently in Canada. Seriously.
Everything I’ve read and heard suggests this is only the beginning. One person rules this country now. Whatever else remains is an insult to even the most degraded definition of democracy you could find. This Substack can’t really exist in a country where reprisals for written opinion are real and are being actively applied. I’ve already found out how unfree and dictatorial the Canadian post-secondary system is. I don’t want to stick around here long enough to get punished again by ever-encroaching authoritarianism.
I am ending Portesaintmonty, with gratitude for your readership and with a quote from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1941). Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell. Darkness at Noon at Arthur Koestler. Required reading if you truly wish to know where the gravity of present events leads.
“All our principles were right, but our results were wrong. This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but wherever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people. But they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested?
“We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves.”
And finally, yes, it is true, I have written songs, have recorded rough demos of the songs, and beginning next week me and the band are in the studio making a record. If and when I re-appear, I will no longer be writing my obviously errant and misguided opinions, I will be singing them.
Que dios nos bendiga a todos por todo lo que vendrá.