Controlled Opposition Is the New Weapon: Don’t Be Led to Despair
By Peter J. Merrick, TEP® and Adrian C. Spitters, CFP®, co-authors of the international bestseller It Starts With Gold™ and the forthcoming book Guns, Gold & Land™
This analysis continues a series of long-form investigations published in The Merrick Spitters Reset Report™
Edgewood, British Columbia, is not just the site of a farm. It is the front line of a global test.
Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. is home to one of the largest, healthiest, naturally immune ostrich flocks in Canada. And today, it sits under threat of total eradication. Not due to an active outbreak. Not due to any present risk. But because two carcasses from a winter die-off tested positive for avian flu, months after they died.
Acting on that tenuous pretext, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) issued an order to destroy all 400 remaining birds, every egg, embryo, and even cryogenically stored genetics. No hearings. No trial. No due process.
At first glance, this appears to be yet another tragic overreach by public health authorities. But what has emerged in its wake is more insidious: a coordinated wave of defeatist messaging spreading across public channels, led not by bureaucrats but by voices claiming to be part of the resistance.
Controlled opposition is not a theory. It is a tactic. And it is being deployed now.
It always begins the same way. The figures speak out against the injustice. They name the truth. They point to the facts. They explain, with impressive clarity, how the birds are healthy, how natural immunity is being erased, and how the WHO and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) are steering Canada’s biosecurity policy through the “One Health” framework, a technocratic system of global governance over human, animal, and environmental health.
Then, with the public nodding in agreement, they deliver the kill shot:
“We cannot fight this. The UN controls our laws.”
“The courts are rigged. There is no point.”
“The only solution is to leave the WHO.”
It sounds radical. It feels brave. But it is not a strategy. It is engineered surrender. It tells Canadians to accept subjugation, to stop engaging, and to give up on the very institutions still capable of stopping this madness.
This is not accidental. This is demoralization, disguised as leadership.
The law still matters. And the CFIA’s order is not lawful.
Start with jurisdiction. The Health of Animals Act exists to regulate animals within the food chain. These ostriches are not being used for food, feathers, or commercial trade. They are a research population studied for their immune resilience and antibody potential. By applying food regulation laws to scientific animals, the CFIA is not protecting public health. It is trespassing into areas outside its lawful mandate.
More importantly, Section 1 of the Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960, affirms that every individual in Canada has the right to life, liberty, security of the person, and enjoyment of property. These rights may not be removed except through due process of law.
What due process permits the destruction of a private, healthy, cooperative, and non-commercial animal population without a hearing, without evidence of risk, and without proper statutory jurisdiction?
There is none. Which is why the order is being contested in court. And contrary to the narrative of surrender, Canadian courts have historically upheld the principles that are now being violated.
In Roncarelli v. Duplessis (1959), the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that public officials, no matter how powerful, cannot act arbitrarily or outside the scope of lawful authority. In Singh v. Minister of Employment and Immigration (1985), the Court upheld that even during emergencies, government actions must conform to principles of fundamental justice.
The precedent is clear: no agency has the right to destroy private property or life without due process, jurisdiction, and fairness. Yet controlled opposition voices refuse to speak of these remedies. Why?
Because their role is not to solve the crisis. Their role is to contain it.
Controlled opposition exists to channel outrage, absorb energy, and then misdirect it. They tell half the truth to earn your trust, and then they weaponize hopelessness. If they can convince Canadians that there is no point in fighting, no law to invoke, no system worth defending, then resistance dies before it even begins.
It is not a coincidence that their message always ends in paralysis. Their goal is not to win the battle. Their goal is to make sure you never join the fight.
They have no legal strategy. They do not organize court actions. They do not cite case law. They never mention jurisdictional limits, the Canadian Bill of Rights, or the dozens of ways Canadians can still use lawful means to defend their lives, their property, and their freedom.
They only sell fear, submission, and the false comfort of believing that “someone else” is already in control.
This is a trap. And it is time to spring it.
Canadians must refuse to be led into despair by voices masquerading as allies. There are concrete, actionable steps that can be taken now.
Challenge jurisdiction. Demand to know what law authorizes the CFIA to destroy non-food animals. If they cannot cite it, they have no authority.
Invoke the Bill of Rights. Property rights, life, and liberty are still protected under federal law. They have not been repealed.
Use case law that remains binding in this country. Roncarelli. Singh. Cooper. Baker. All affirm that public decisions must be fair, reasonable, and grounded in lawful authority.
And most of all, expose the defeatist narrative for what it is: a pacification campaign designed to protect the very institutions dismantling your rights.
What begins with ostriches in British Columbia will not stay in British Columbia.
If the CFIA succeeds here, if Canadians allow a precedent where an international directive overrides domestic law, where research animals can be destroyed without due process, and where courts are declared useless without being tried, this will spread.
The doctrine of One Health is already being adopted by nations around the world. Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are integrating global health frameworks into domestic law. If Canada falls silently, others will follow.
This is not just a local story. It is a global script.
But we are not extras in this production. We still have agency. We still have the law. And if we stop accepting the lie that we are powerless, we can still write the ending.
The cull is not about birds. It is about obedience.
Sarah and a second unnamed ostrich, both killed under suspicious circumstances following the CFIA’s cull order, are no longer alive. While the CFIA did not carry out the shootings, its order triggered a climate of fear and escalation that led to these deaths. Their loss is not the end of the story. It marks a decision point for every Canadian who believes in sovereignty, science, and the right to resist unlawful overreach.
Will we let those deaths be the start of a global precedent where natural immunity is outlawed, private property is expendable, and international agencies dictate national policy?
Or will we stop waiting to be rescued and start acting like a sovereign people once again?
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References
- Health of Animals Act
- Canadian Bill of Rights (1960)
- Roncarelli v. Duplessis, [1959] SCR 121
- Singh v. Minister of Employment and Immigration, [1985] 1 SCR 177
- Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works (1863) – Available via Canadian legal commentary
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH)
