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June 8, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 4 minutes reading • 89 comments You may not be surprised that author Derek Smith seems to have some conservative tendencies. Photo by Amazon Canada
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Amazon Canada’s number one book right now is a parody of children’s books that criticizes Justin Trudeau’s response to Freedom Convoy.
How the Prime Minister stole freedom, inspired by the classic Dr. Seuss As the Grinch stole Christmas, he follows the trials of a Trudeau-style leader who is tortured by freedom-loving truckers who invade his capital.
The incumbent “Prime Minister” is portrayed as a tenuous politician (“his brain was three sizes too small”) who plans to seize the liberties of Canadian citizens in a manner similar to the Grinch’s machinations to steal Christmas in Whoville. In the true style of Seus, it is written in anapestic tetrameter.
“From coast to coast, truckers drove through the snow and their small marginal number continued to grow. Then one day a truck driver appeared in the city, with thousands of people behind them from miles around,” he says. a passage describing the arrival of the Freedom Convoy.
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It’s written by Derek Smith, a Calgary-based father of three who was formerly best known on the Internet as a vintage video game player.
As of Tuesday afternoon, How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom was the best-selling book on Amazon Canada.
In a recent interview with Maverick Media, Smith credited the ranking with a review on the conservative Canadian YouTube channel Clyde Do Something, which caused the book to rush past the best-selling headline, a novel by author Colleen Hoover.
“I thought we would get number one in our category, but I didn’t think we would get number one in Canada,” he said.
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Smith told Maverick Media he pledged not to talk about politics around his children, but he was a big supporter of Freedom Convoy, the protest against the warrant that set a blockade for a few weeks in downtown Ottawa. Smith said he was “heartbroken” at the final outcome of the protests, which saw many organizers imprisoned or financially ruined, and conceived the book in his defense. But he said he tried to write it without “malice” and would not necessarily recommend reading it to children.
Trudeau is never mentioned by name, and this may be for legal reasons. A long disclaimer on the front page of the book assures readers that “the views and opinions expressed in this book are those of the characters only and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of the individuals on whom those characters are based.”
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Below is a second disclaimer to avoid the demands of Dr.’s estate. Seuss.
But Smith certainly did his homework; all the usual tricks of Trudeau are here. The prime minister can be seen drinking from a “box of drinks, something a bottle of water.” Use the word “popularity”. It is briefly depicted with a black face. On one page, the prime minister looks lovingly at a framed portrait of Winnie the Pooh, an obvious replacement for Chinese President Xi Jinping (and a reference to Trudeau’s infamous 2013 comment that admired China’s “basic dictatorship”). .
How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom is Smith’s second foray into writing politically inspired children’s books. Let’s Go Brandon, released in October, follows the plight of an unfortunate boy named Brandon who represents U.S. President Joe Biden.
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The book joins a thriving online anti-Trudeau merchandise craft industry. On Amazon, this is best represented by the dozens of hats, flags, bumper stickers, and shirts that carry the slogan “Fk Trudeau” with the “u” artfully replaced by a maple leaf.
This may be the most famous Canadian in the world right now. A TikToker in the Ottawa area known as Tammyandtwins went viral for a two-minute video claiming that recruiters like herself are actively seeking social media to deny employment to anyone who sympathizes with protests against the mandate. . “Recruiters are watching, human resources are watching … and we hate you, we hate you a lot,” he says. Meanwhile, the woman’s strangely bright eyes are probably the result of a digital beauty filter. Photo by TikTok / Tammyandtwins
IN OTHER NEWS
An Ontario school district has fired its only black administrator because he was not politically correct enough. On Monday night, the Waterloo District School Board voted to block Councilor Mike Ramsay from meetings until Sept. 30 in which Ramsay told CityNews it was an attempt to “silence him.” The June 6 vote only said that Ramsay violated the trustee’s Code of Conduct and did not disclose the details of the complaint, although Ramsay said it was related to his somewhat unorthodox activity on social media. , which has included criticism of the district’s decision to introduce “anti-racism training into the curriculum.” They aim to advocate for diversity, inclusion and equity. But the irony of it all is that when a black person disagrees with them, they rush to put me in my place, ”Ramsay told the Waterloo Region Record.
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Canadian military aircraft parked in Asia continue to be rejected by Chinese fighter jets in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called an “irresponsible and provocative” act. Last week, an RCAF CP-140 Aurora operating outside of Japan was so close to Chinese planes that pilots had to deviate from the path to avoid a collision (“quickly change their own flight path “That’s what the military said). China is making a point of harassing the foreign military operating in its general vicinity, and this is far from the first time the tactic has been aimed at Canada. In 2019, HMCS Regina launched Chinese fighters less than 300 meters from its bow while operating in the East China Sea.
With the platinum jubilee celebrations over, Queen Elizabeth II wrote this quick note to her subjects. A word of note for Canadians who may have overlooked the 70th anniversary of the reign of their 96-year-old head of state; The British festivities were significantly helped by the fact that the British had a four-day weekend away from the event. Photo of Buckingham Palace
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