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June 8, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 4 minutes reading • 97 comments It may come as no surprise that author Derek Smith seems to have some conservative tendencies. Photo by Amazon Canada
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Book number one on Amazon Canada is currently a parody children’s book that criticizes Justin Trudeau’s response to Freedom Convoy.
How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom – modeled on Dr. Seuss’ classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas – follows the ordeal against a Trudeau-style leader who was tortured by freedom-loving trucks invading his capital.
The incumbent “prime minister” is portrayed as a grim politician (“his brain was three sizes smaller”) who plans to seize the liberties of Canadian citizenship in a way similar to the Grinch’s plans to steal Christmas from Whoville. In true Seusian style it is written in an anapest tetrameter.
“From coast to coast, truck drivers drove through the snow and their small numbers continued to grow. Then one day a truck driver appeared in the city, with thousands behind them for miles around, “said a passage describing the arrival of the convoy of freedom.
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It was written by Derek Smith, a Calgary-based full-time father of three, formerly best known online as a retro video game streamer.
As of Tuesday afternoon, “How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom” was the number one best-selling book on Amazon Canada.
In a recent interview with Maverick Media, Smith attributed the review to the conservative Canadian YouTube channel Clyde Do Something, which caused enough of the book’s influx to move it past the title of the bestseller, a novel by Colleen Hoover.
“I decided we were going to hit number one in our category, but I didn’t think we were going to hit number one in Canada,” he said.
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Smith told Maverick Media that he was reluctant to discuss politics around his children, but was a strong supporter of Freedom Convoy, a protest against the mandate that established a week-long blockade in downtown Ottawa. Smith said he was “heartbroken” by the final outcome of the protests, in which many organizers were 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 book’s home page 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 people on whom these characters are based.”
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A second disclaimer is then included to dissuade lawsuits from Dr. Seuss’s mansion.
But Smith has definitely done his homework; all the usual punches for Trudeau are here. The prime minister can be seen drinking from a “drink box, a bottle of water something like something”. He uses the word “people”. He is depicted briefly in a black face. On one page, the Prime Minister looks lovingly at a framed portrait of Winnie the Pooh – an obvious alternate to Chinese President Xi Jinping (and a reference to Trudeau’s scandalous remark in 2013 that he admired China’s “main dictatorship”).
How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom is Smith’s second foray into politically inspired writing of fake children’s books. Going Brandon, published in October, traces the suffering of an unfortunate child named Brandon, who represents US President Joe Biden.
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The book joins the thriving online home industry of anti-Trudeau goods. On Amazon, this is best represented by the dozens of hats, flags, bumper stickers and shirts bearing the slogan “Fk Trudeau” with “u”, cleverly replaced by a maple leaf.
This may be the most famous Canadian in the world right now. A TikToker from the Ottawa region known as Tammyandtwins, she circulated in a two-minute video claiming recruits like her are actively searching social media to deny employment to anyone who sympathizes with anti-term protests. “Recruitment is watching, HR is watching, and we hate you, we hate you so much,” she said. Meanwhile, the strangely glowing eyes of the woman are probably the result of a digital beauty filter. Photo by TikTok / Tammyandtwins
IN OTHER NEWS
A school district in Ontario has expelled its only black guardian because he was not politically correct enough. On Monday night, the Waterloo District School Board voted to block trustee Mike Ramsey from meetings until Sept. 30 in what Ramsey told CityNews was an attempt to “silence” him. The June 6 vote only said Ramsey violated the Trustee’s Code of Conduct and did not make public details of the complaint, although Ramsey said it was related to his somewhat heterodox activities on social media, which included criticism of the county’s move to introduced “anti-racism” training in the curriculum. “They pretend to stand for diversity, inclusion and justice. But the irony of it all is that when a black person disagrees with them, they quickly put me in my place, “Ramsey told Waterloo Region Record.
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Canadian warplanes stationed in Asia continue to be revived by Chinese fighter jets in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called an “irresponsible and provocative” act. Last week, the RCAF CP-140 Aurora, operating from Japan, was so close to Chinese jets that pilots had to deviate from the road to avoid a collision (“quickly change their own flight path” is how the military put it). . China intends to harass foreign troops operating in their common proximity, and this is not the first time tactics have been targeted at Canada. In 2019, HMCS Regina caused Chinese fighters to pass within 300 meters of their noses while operating in the East China Sea.
After the platinum jubilee celebrations were over, Queen Elizabeth II wrote this quick note to her subjects. A note to Canadians who may have overlooked the 70th anniversary of their 96-year-old head of state; the British celebrations were greatly aided by the fact that the British received a four-day weekend from the event. Photo from Buckingham Palace
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