{"id":42715,"date":"2019-01-14T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42715"},"modified":"2019-01-14T06:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:13:11","slug":"the-tears-of-justin-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42715","title":{"rendered":"The Tears of Justin Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/14\/the-tears-of-justin-trudeau\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Tears of Justin Trudeau<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>On January 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swept into a non-violent checkpoint set up by the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en and Gidimt\u2019en clans of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation. Fourteen people were violently arrested in the ambush by the militarized colonial forces. The camp was set up by hereditary leaders to defend the ancestral lands of the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en and other clans from the unwanted incursions of TransCanada and its Coastal Gaslink pipeline. Following the incident Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had the temerity to extol the neoliberal scheme behind the incident as something that is good for the earth. In a speech to supporters he said:\u00a0<em>\u201cWe moved forward on the LNG Canada project, which is the largest private sector investment in Canada\u2019s history, $40-billion, which is going to produce Canadian LNG that will supplant coal in Asia as a power source and do much for the environment.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0After being pressed in a radio interview about the brutal raid Trudeau said of the arrests that it is\u00a0<em>\u201cnot an ideal situation, but at the same time, we\u2019re also a country of the rule of law.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Apparently he does not consider Article 10 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be law. It states:\u00a0<em>\u201cIndigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their land or territories.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0It may be difficult for ordinary people to choke out hypocritical, ahistorical fallacies without missing a beat, but the Prime Minister has a gift for spouting empty platitudes that fly in the face of reality and he isn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p>There is something familiar about Trudeau\u2019s lamentation on this\u00a0<em>situation<\/em>\u00a0as well as his appeal for the rule of law. This is because neoliberal leaders around the world have used similar justifications for the violence of the corporate state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tears of Justin Trudeau On January 7th\u00a0the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swept into a non-violent checkpoint set up by the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en and Gidimt\u2019en clans of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation. Fourteen people were violently arrested in the ambush by the militarized colonial forces. 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