First time blogging in a while – I have scads of recipes and some nifty photos, plus another project car (and the saga therein!) to share. But first, I wanted to share with you a letter to my next door neighbours.

I will go into things in more detail later, but suffice it to say that I have moved with my family to a neat little bungalow which is right across from the local RCMP detachment. We have been here for over two years now, and it has been a peacable time. The RCMP make fine neighbours overall, as most internationally would expect of the Mounted Police.

(Sieggy the Hound has never been happier – he watches out the window at them constantly. He may think it’s T.V – the best cop drama ever for a houng dog! Sitting still with his head on the couch for hours, some movement, or bearing, or a change imperceptible to the human ear will make him bark at our neighbours, his long nose bopping against the glass. While I don’t know what our neighbours think of him, I can’t help but imagine that, after two years of fascinated study, they must have developed the sort of lopsided affection one has for anything notable and constant. Perhaps he even gives them a bit of cheer as they go out to do something in their vehicles which is no doubt challenging to do.)

Things in Canada have been fraught lately. You most likely have heard. Things have happened today and tonight which I am shocked to see and it has shaken me deeply. Canada, sleepy, icy, tree-ey, donut-ey, coffee-ey Canada, has become one of those trending streaming events – manipulated by mass media, politicians and others.

Now, I believe in the laws, as you will read, in those little pieces of paper. I believe that, if a law says X, then we do not violate X. If we don’t like it, we find out if we can change X. We do not create rules which violate X made by unelected officials. I don’t care where you stand on any health issues – to me, this is how it is done.

X => Paper with X on it => Must play by X or Change it According to Other Papers with Things On Them.

Otherwise, it’s not the law, it violates our law, and furthermore, such actions erode the rule of law which keeps democratic countries like Canada intact. It doesn’t matter the Why, or the WeHaveTo – it is an If => Then relationship to me. If you Violate Paper with X on it rather than Change it with Due Process, Then Our Nation Deteriorates. It could be over any topic, not just heath emergencies.

If => Then.

So, at any rate, as a result of this belief and pride in our pieces of paper, I have been proudly displaying my own nation’s flag on my car, since the Truck Convoy began. I love my Country and am proud of it, the Maple Leaf is my flag, and I believe in the pieces of paper which make us all safe in Canada. These pieces of paper have protected me and my family… and now that most of them are swept into indeterminate limbo by the Emergencies Act, I am afraid. Afraid as so many billions in the world are afraid who live under harsh and unchecked leadership, or no leadership at all.

And so, I leave up my flag on my vehicle’s grill, and the words I have written in the winter muck on my rear window:

Read the Charter of Rights, Read Bill S-201, Freedom for All, Bitchute.com

(Bitchute.com because I see videos from my own friends and relatives on Bitchute that by no means have made it into the mass media narrative. We all know know prime time news is edited, but wow, it comes with a lot of butthurt when it happens to you and yours! I don’t recommend it to try, if you can avoid it.)

The lack of videos of peaceful (if loud!) protest – or Honkening – have contributed to the State of Play in Canada since Feb 14, 2022. It allowed Trudeau to have the Governor in Council proclaim the Emergencies Act is now in force. If your eyes just crossed there, don’t worry – most Canadians had to take a crash course on Canadian Power Structure 101 this past month. What I mean to say is, the whole scope of the gathering in Ottawa was skewed into a reason to make our nation the dictatorship it could always have become at the decision of a true jerk. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way to Trudeau per se, just that most Canadians who understood how Canada actually works as a Commonwealth with the Queen of England as its actual head of state know that it would take a real jerk to pull that Emergencies Act card.

So, AAANNNYWAYYY, back to my point.

We live across from the RCMP. Our neighbours.

Across the street in the little bungalow, I just watched hours of footage of policemen intimidating, beating and using horses against our own citizens. I’m not sure where are some of my mates are or family. Since Valentine’s Day (and I do mean this when I say, Thanks, Jerk, you ruined Valentine’s Day for Canada for like, ever), I could be taken away for having my own nation’s flag on my car, if someone decided I was looking a little too terrorist-ey.

It’s a big SUV. It looks pretty badass, but also fits a certain Profile which, well, see above. This taking away business is no longer a meaningless concern.

Some would say, take it down, and quickly.

I refuse to let little men make me afraid of my neighbours. I went over to the quiet, empty detatchment a little while ago (about 1 am our time) and cried. Cried for Canada, cried that, as appears de rigeur for a certain class of real jerk, symbols which have united my neighbours and myself for years are now twisted out of all recognition. The Canadian Flag. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

So, I write this letter to my neighbours, and to all the RCMP tonight. I want you to know what I think of you, after seeing today’s events in Ottawa. This is not war. This is not conflict. This is me being proud of Canada, and of you.

February 18. 2022

Dear Neighbours:

Things are getting rather bad in our nation’s capital, and no doubt in other areas of the country these past few days. Forces beyond any of our control could make it easy for all of us to become afraid – of the future, and of each other.

I sit across from you with the Canadian flag on my vehicle. The disturbing thing is, rather than being a sign of solidarity with you and the work you do, you may have noted it as being a sign of a dissident.

Please believe, that it is a sign of solidarity with you, my neighbours, and with the country in which we all live. Please believe that every happy Canada Day any of us has ever sent goes into the display of our national flag, along with every ideal of what it is to be Canadian. A significant part of that ideal is ensconced in you, the RCMP.

At this time, my display of our flag is a sign of solidarity with our provinces and territories as one people. It is an acknowledgement of good people like you who work hard – and it is very challenging work you do – to keep the peace in our area every day.

As a former First Responder and someone who has worked closely with RCMP officers for Coroners’ work and Search and Rescue, I have seen a tiny portion of what you encounter. As a citizen who has been protected by you in the past, I would like to thank you for having defended me and my family, and defended our right to live peaceably on our own land for as long as we did. In the end, bigoted, intolerant people chased us away and we left for our own safety; but I remember you well visiting us in the trees, and doing what you could to keep the peace over the years.

I know that, technically, your oath is not to Serve and Protect, as American television teaches us up in Canada. Yet the RCMP do so every day. I know that, in order to keep the Queen’s peace, sometimes no one is left happy… but you attempt to leave those you visit with their basic rights intact, and their own space in which to enjoy those rights.

Our flag is on my car because I believe in the work you do daily, and the rights you help all of us to keep. I believe firmly in the pieces of paper the government has made over the years – Bill S-201, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and others. I believe- and this is not necessarily correct, I know- that these documents are the foundation upon which our country, that country which we have become, that country which we all together want to be, is based. Perhaps not in chronological order, but I believe it is at the heart of the ideological nation of Canada. I believe that the RCMP would not do what they do each day unless you felt this, as well.

The Emergencies Act is supposed to be girded round by one of these papers – the shining diadem of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It is not your job to defend the Charter, as many in the United States swear to defend their Constitution.

I hope you will however, use the Charter as your North Star in the coming days and weeks. I do not mean to tell to you what you already know, but must say it for my own sake to you, my neighbours –

Please be mindful that our Canada walks a razor’s edge this February. We are all on this edge, and all of our children and our generations, our trees and our resources, our animals and our oceans, besides. You have an unique opportunity as RCMP to balance the dire potential energy encapsulated within the Emergencies Act with the fundamental rights given to us by the Queen in 1982.

Things are happening in this country over the past two years that I thought I would never see, as I am sure you would agree. Some are heartwarming, some ideologically challenging, some are unprecedented. It is these last which require your most careful consideration. Please continue to do the thorough investigation into all sides of the issues placed before you in the coming interval. You have used these skills with dedication since we became neighbours, and as an organization, for as long as the RCMP have been Canadian Ambassadors. Please always, as I know you do, compare next steps with the pieces of paper upon which our parents, and our children, hope to build their futures. It is only paper without you and your thoughtful, accurate application of its contents.

Please, always remember the Queen gave us these Charter Rights herself – to you and your children, to everyone in Canada. I respect your work, and wanted you to know that I honor your daily efforts in E Division. It is my hope that these shadows which pass over us as we work and live under the Canadian flag may pass due to the light of mutual respect.

May God have mercy on us all, and may He do so through the continued compassion we all show to each other every day. I am afraid this night, but two things of which I am not afraid are to proudly be Canadian, and to live next to you.

Please continue to be safe.

Sincerely,

Clyde MacGregor

and your biggest fan, Siegfried the Plott Hound at the Window.

*moment or two of thoughtful contemplation*

So, that’s my update, and my story tonight. I refuse to be afraid of my neighbours. I refuse to send anything other than love and respect their way. Love and respect is all we have. It is what makes those pieces of paper come into existence, and those make life together possible.

Think what you will of me, conjecture away, but as long as Bill S-201 is in place, no one is legally bound to have to take a genetic test or declare a status based on their health in order to perform tasks of life, earn a living and more. As long as the Charter exists, most of what Canada has endured for two years was utterly out of the bound of our law.

Canada is lucky to have these papers, and others, and I will not give them up without making a stand. Not a fight – fighting won’t solve anything, it will only give the eyes of mass media fodder for their narrative. No, only a stand based on love and respect, and education, has a hope of keeping those remarkable papers intact.

I need those papers to be safe in Canada, so does my wife and family. You may not think it, but I tell you-

You Need Them, Too.

It is for the sake of all those papers that- even for the ones which irritate some of us- our nation was crossed by multitudes and hot-tubs, parties and free food were brought forth.

Pray for your countries and learn about them while you still can. Do so not to fight, but to revere, celebrate and love every little thing that gives you what peace, equality, safety and security you have in your corner of the world.

Pray for my neighbours in love, and pray for Canada.