Susan Delacourt: ‘Freedom’ has been a weaponized word. The Emergencies Act report finally tells us what it means
“Freedom” became a highly charged political word in Canada one year ago, shouted from trucks blockading border points, bouncing off the walls of buildings in an occupied capital city.
The finding justifies what was done to clean up the mess, but not what caused the mess itself — the toxic partisanship, a failure of policing and federalism and yes, a warped idea of freedom, caused by the pandemic, populism and rampant misinformation being sprayed over social media. “I wish I had phrased it differently,” Trudeau said, agreeing with Rouleau that he may have fed the rage by describing the protesters as a fringe minority.
“There was credible and compelling information supporting a reasonable belief that the definition of a threat to the security of Canada was met,” the commissioner wrote. Poilievre had a lot more to say about Trudeau than the Rouleau report at his news conference, which is probably a sign that the Conservatives are keen to put this whole chapter in the past. He did not accuse Rouleau of designing his findings to appease the government, or criticize the commission itself as illegitimate, which will be the view in many quarters where sympathy for the convoy runs high.
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