© FacebookPublic protest Ottawa • Canadian trucker and pet
The city of Ottawa issued a tweet aimed at the Freedom Convoy protestors,
threatening to confiscate their pets on top of all the other measures aimed at them.
The notice put up on the official Twitter account reads: "Attention animal owners at demonstration If you are
unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost. After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished."
To be clear, the text "your animal will be considered relinquished" means in no uncertain terms that the animals will be put into the city's animal shelter system.
This did not go unnoticed in the response tweets to the original notice. "What happens after the animals are 'relinquished'? You put them down?" read one reply tweet by journalist Chris Tomlinson:
It's no secret that animals tend not to have very good outcomes once they disappear into the shelter system. Looking at the big picture,
according to the American Humane society's website,
56 percent of all dogs and 71 of all cats who enter shelters wind up being euthanized.Perhaps more alarmingly,
only 15.8 percent of dogs and a mere 2 percent of cats wind up being reunited with their original families.
Comment: Lowering the boom, Ottawa is resorting to theft and blackmail rather than negotiate. Trust your pet to the pound? See what can happen:
According to
The New York Times:
Tension built throughout the day as the authorities issued a stream of warnings, saying that once they move in to clear the streets of the capital city, the protesters face arrest, seizure of their vehicles, loss of any pets in their trucks and cars, revocation of their drivers' licenses, fines — and up to five years in prison if they bring children to an unlawful demonstration.
From
The Countersignal:
Position statements issued by the Ottawa Humane Society reveal that they may unilaterally euthanize any animal that they deem to be "not suitable for adoption." Arbitrary behavioral and health tests would be used to make the call.
These decisions about the life of a trucker's pet would, thus, be made without their consent or knowledge while they are imprisoned for indefinite periods of time via the Emergency Powers of the Trudeau regime.
What is true at every shelter is that when you surrender a dog, what happens to him is completely out of your hands.
It isn't clear what length of time Convoy supporters may face if arrested for peacefully protesting, but the government has been clear that it could be up to one year in prison, in addition to a possible $100,000 fine.
This move, while despicable, should come as no surprise, as authoritarian regimes often resort to such measures when under stress.
As it stands, all Canadians continue to be held hostage following Trudeau's invoking of the Emergencies Act, with Canadians' who happened to support the Convoy financially being threatened with the possible freezing of their bank account. Dogs are just the latest target for a government in shambles.
The latest in authoritarian overstep:
Ontario government staffer out of a job after $100 donation to Ottawa blockade, crypto wallets seized, bank accounts frozen after GiveSendGo hack
Comment: Lowering the boom, Ottawa is resorting to theft and blackmail rather than negotiate. Trust your pet to the pound? See what can happen:
According to The New York Times: From The Countersignal: The latest in authoritarian overstep:
Ontario government staffer out of a job after $100 donation to Ottawa blockade, crypto wallets seized, bank accounts frozen after GiveSendGo hack