Using vaccine mandates as a political wedge in the 2021 federal election was a very bad idea.
Roughly 15,000 protesters and 3,000 trucks had begun what has been called an “occupation” of Ottawa that wasn’t broken up until Friday, Feb. 18, when a complex multi-agency police operation cleared the streets. Tow trucks hauled away 21 vehicles, and 70 people were arrested. Justice Paul Rouleau is expected toSign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
But then, on Aug. 12, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said federal employees, Crown corporations and federally regulated industries such as cross-border trucking, trains and airplanes, would fall within the new rule: vaccines would be mandatory. Three days later, the federal election was announced.
And there were enough nasty people, misogynists and racists, who were quite happy to rise to the occasion and insinuate themselves into the truckers’ protest leadership. And they did well, exploiting and manipulating the righteous fury and growing frustration of working people who were tired of being lied to and lied about. And there was a good bit of mayhem. Border crossings were blockaded. And life in Ottawa, for a while there, was barely tolerable.
It isn’t inconceivable that Rouleau will find in favour of the Trudeau government’s decision to suspend the ordinary operation of the law across Canada for several days last year, but his word won’t be the last. The CCLA is challenging the government in court. A case could be made out that even if the Emergencies Act thresholds were not met, it was still, in its way, necessary, but not because the protests presented any grave threat to Canada’s national security.
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