I feel like the average opinion here in Canada is that it’s justified- but personally I think it was (within the laws of Canada) unjustified, and setting a lot of concerning precedents.

I can barely find anything about it other than these two articles now- but these two articles detailing the government doing the same to a leftist critic, since, had been particularly worrying that I remember them to this point still-

https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/senior-citizen-exiled-from-canada-after-exposing-prime-ministers-racism-and-nato-in-hong-kong

https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/going-public-canadian-senior-citizen-exiled-after-exposing-pms-racism-and-nato-in-hong-kong

Personally, I think it’s part of a broader concerted effort- in Canada, but across the west, to crack down on dissent- it might be fun for a while to laugh as it happens to chuds, but then you realize the reality of what it entails- people being left with no means of buying food or paying their bills, being left effectively stateless if they’re stranded in other countries, being extrajudicially silenced, smeared, and cut off from their incomes in the context of platforms like Youtube- all by the blatant acts of the state and those directly, undeniably involved in running it- and of course, you both know and see that the same and worse, they’re doing and planning to do to the left as well as whoever falls foul of the present neoliberal bigot or faux-progressive demagogue of the hour.

As an ethnic Chinese-Canadian (family not from the mainland probably since the Qing, sadly) who sees the direction things are headed racially over here (though how far is beyond me), as a leftist, someone who’s trans, technically an immigrant (family came when I was 2), etc… this shit greatly concerns me. I fully sympathize with the truckers and a whole lot of others of varying degrees of mixed feelings, disagreements, or outright wrongness, in this aspect- they came for them, and when it comes to the left, and to ethnic, racial, LGBT minorities they’ll come for us 1000x worse, and we all know it’s in blatant mockery of the supposed “laws,” “checks and balances,” twisting and turning the truth inside and out till they have a way to strangle people with it or execute them by a court of manufactured public opinion and extrajudicial corporate stoogery alike.

I’m mostly, or outright completely fine with such things happening where the laws are clear on the matter- China, for instance. You know where to tread if nothing else, I’ve experienced it in Singapore for a time (and even stepped out of place greatly while mindful of the fact and had to sweat about that myself) and bristled at it then- but this is anything but comparable; this is unjustified by the books (ie. abuse of power and breaking of pre-established norms) and carried out through the most shameless smears, fearmongering, and distortions of reality, as well as backdoors dealing. And when that is possible, anything is possible. (Considering this is lemmygrad, presumably everyone already knows it was always already possible. But government actually taking the step to do it, in broad daylight no less, is another far more worrying matter)