The ministers are blowing off their conversation as mere banter. But jokes about sending in tanks are psychologically telling
“You need to get the police to move,” he typed to Mendicino. “And the CAF if necessary. Too many people are being seriously adversely impacted by what is an occupation.” Mendicino, allegedly recognizing Lametti’s plea for army intervention as a joke, asked Lametti how many tanks he wanted. Lametti answered, “I reckon one will do!”The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit.
The Ottawa and provincial police forces didn’t really have plans or tactics ready for a well-funded, determined protest by the hinterland working classes; they hadn’t asked the question, “What if the trucks that keep cities fed and fuelled are ever used passively, in numbers, as a weaponlike he was joking when he described this as “an occupation.” Two visions of a national capital city came suddenly into conflict in a new way.
Within a fortnight of Lametti’s remark about tanks, the Liberals had declared a national public-order emergency and begun to take what used to be called “war measures,” even though convoy blockades of key international border crossings were already, at that moment, being dispersed. It was the first use of federal emergency law since 1970, when the War Measures Act was invoked against an outburst of actual political terrorism, murder and kidnapping.
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