Liberals would be foolish to celebrate Emergencies Act report
The Liberals will fête this decision and spin it as a triumph. This is foolish. Justice Rouleau’s verdict is no victory for the Liberals. If Canadians accept the ruling that does not imply agreement nor does it follow that they be required to read it as an exoneration for the government’s handling of the situation in general.
That citizens should have gotten vaccinated and that vaccines are a key reason we no longer are burdened with the intolerable misery of lockdowns should by now be beyond doubt. Canadians supported vaccine mandates in large numbers and were right to do so. But we should remember that at the time the messaging behind what was useful in stopping or slowing COVID was, at best, haphazard. Masks were alternatively unnecessary, then necessary. Meeting outside was ok, then it wasn’t, then it was again.
As such, we should not remember the trucker convoy explosion as an event in isolation. It was the final culmination of COVID lockdown frustrations and — and this is important — a government which despite being initially elected on a promise to unite Canadians has frequently sought every opportunity to divide them. Politics for politics’ sake and at the expense of Canadians was the spark that ignited a powder keg.
Amidst a chaotic last few years, it can be difficult to discern any consistent policy thread or goal within our current government. One element though, has remained intact and strong as ever: that opponents of government policies do not have legitimate objections, but rather are
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