Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a shocking statement, asserting that the truckers—with whom he has been refusing to meet—hold “unacceptable views.” Actually, he said much more, calling the tens of thousands of truckers who came to Ottawa with an important message “a small fringe minority.” This followed the earlier baseless accusations of misogynism and racism that he levelled at the multitudes of freedom-loving truckers and their supporters. These accusations were directed at a large group of patriotic citizens who just want him to abandon the coercive and senseless tactics by which he is attempting to compel vaccine compliance.

His remarks were abusive and unfair. The fawning media who receive taxpayer dollars to promote the Liberal government’s narrative (not only on covid, but also on abortion, gender, carbon and censorship) have used every unfair trick in the book to paint the truckers and their supporters as disrespectful anarchists . . . but the truth is plain to all those who can read between the lines . . . or who look beyond mainstream media to find sources of real news.

The phrase “unacceptable views” is so revealing. Essentially, the PM was telling Canadians that his views are the only acceptable ones. Anyone who disagrees with him is unacceptable. That’s why his government is moving to impose bubble zones around every abortion facility in the country. Because to express a view that opposes the killing of the pre-born is “unacceptable.”

That’s why the PM and his caucus (and shamefully, every MP present who knew what Bill C-4 was about) voted—without even a dissenting voice—to make it a crime to counsel an individual who wants to escape from an unnatural sexual lifestyle. Even a parent concerned about a child. Even a pastor caring for a troubled parishioner. Where once the Liberal party preached “tolerance,” “acceptance” and “inclusiveness,” the mantra now is to weed out those still clinging to traditional moral values, those who take God’s Word seriously, those who think the Charter of Rights and Freedoms still applies, those who think the freedom to make one’s own moral decisions is a sacred right. Those views are now “unacceptable.”

Not many years ago, there was a great hue and cry about “bullying,” especially in our public schools. Although, in fact, there have always been bullies pushing smaller kids around or tormenting those who were different in any way, the “woke” crowd, led by people like Mr. Trudeau, used the “anti-bullying” meme to advance the cause of gender confusion among vulnerable young people. If anyone questioned the program, they were accused of being insensitive to those experimenting with lifestyle choices and adopted identities.

Today, the bully who thinks he is holding all the cards has decided that it’s okay to shame, coerce, manipulate, threaten and punish anyone who dares to think for him or herself. If allowed to continue, this way of thinking will soon spell the end of the democracy that has taken centuries to achieve. In the days before the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, English kings did as they wished and presumed the right to control their subjects, to appropriate their lands, their crops, their wives and even their lives. There came a day when the barons had had enough and forced King John to sign the “Great Charter” that placed all men under the law, even the king. The Freedom Convoy Truckers in Ottawa, right now, may be playing the role of the barons in 1215. They’re demanding that the Prime Minister drop his autocratic role and divine pretensions and subject himself—like all Canadians—to the rule of law. The Magna Carta was the predecessor of many other binding documents, including Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, yes that part of our constitution that became law during the term of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Yes, the one that our current PM is violating every day (as articulately attested by the last living signatory first minister, the Honourable A. Brian Peckford).

When one occupies the highest office in the land, one may be tempted to believe in the “divine right of kings” and even to conveniently apply that to the “divine right of Prime Ministers.” That is, one may find it convenient to think and act is if one’s decisions are beyond question. “Because I said so,” comes to mind. That phrase may annoy a child when a parent uses it to end an argument. It may even undermine respect for authority when seen as a device to be used when there is no good reason, no obvious logic to justify an action or a demand. But it is a nation-destroying concept when used by the elected leader of a once-free country to overrule the common sense and personal choices of the men and women who grow the crops, drill the oil, haul the supplies we all need, care for the sick and . . . pay the taxes.

In one of his recent denunciations of those whom he dismisses as a “fringe minority,” the PM even alluded to the elimination of those whose views do not align with his. “Do we tolerate these people?” he asked in his angry diatribe. That sounds too much like the rightly-reviled maniac who stirred up hatred against the Jews in the 1930s. A ruler who seeks to create division, distrust and hostility between citizen-groups is a ruler who has lost his way. The all-too-obvious attempt by the PM and the mainstream media to try to paint the Freedom Movement as racist, anarchist and selfish is evident to most thinking Canadians.

In a democracy, opinions ought to be discussed and debated, not censored and criminalized. In open debate, ideally the best ideas flourish. But there are some views that ought not to be expressed so glibly and petulantly. They are the distorted views of an arrogant leader who seeks to elevate himself above the “supremacy of God and the rule of law.”

CHP Canada stands upon the foundation of biblical truth reflected in the Charter; and we stand in solidarity with all those defending our God-given rights and freedoms today.