Canada's Liberal government wants to regulate internet content and deputize social media companies to enforce "hate speech" bans (with a low and murky threshold for what "hate speech" is). I hope @elonmusk takes a stand against this.
Andrew Lawton
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Andrew Lawton
@AndrewLawton
Member of Parliament, Elgin—St. Thomas—London South
- At her inaugural press conference, Alberta Premier @ABDanielleSmith says the unvaccinated are "the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."
- I've decided I'm going to start answering questions my wife asks me like a politician. "Did you empty the dishwasher?" "Let me be clear. I support clean dishes. I have always supported clean dishes. It is imperative that the dishes off of which we eat are clean."
- One thing to note is that the mask mandate in Ottawa is basically dead this weekend. Virtually no masks worn in hotels, food places and stores, and staff have either given up trying to enforce or don't actually care.
- Freedom isn’t fringe. Pass it on.
- Amusing sidebar: hotel at which I’m staying in Ottawa is full for first time in two years. Trucker convoy is doing more for the economy than most governments!
- As more provinces do away with vaccine passports, I'm seeing people tweet that they won't be comfortable going to restaurants without them. Great – you can choose to stay home. You can't impose your fear on others who are ready to get back to normal.
- I'm in my hotel room listening to the freedom convoy outside, which is now blasting "Mambo No. 5" for the third time in an hour.
- Remember when Twitter banned anyone sharing the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story because of its "hacked materials" policy? Odd that no one seems to mind journalists tweeting about donors to the Freedom Convoy – information they have because of hacked materials.
- “They think we’re going to be out of here in a couple of days? No no no no. This is just starting,” convoy spokesperson Benjamin Dichter says.
- Convoy critics point to high vaccination rates as evidence the truckers and their supporters are a fringe minority. The fact that 90% of Canadians have been vaccinated and we're still in lockdown with myriad restrictions is why people – including the vaccinated – are protesting.
- Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans boasts at the World Economic Forum about the development of an "individual carbon footprint tracker" to monitor what you buy, what you eat, and where/how you travel.
00:00 - BREAKING: Judge orders Freedom Convoy fundraiser and organizer Tamara Lich should be released on bail, overturning previous judge's decision to keep her in custody.
- This is a hilarious self-own. On a Davos energy transition panel, the moderator asked World Economic Forum guests to raise their hands if they had an electric vehicle. JUST FOUR of them did.
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