A year after the "Freedom Convoy" took over the streets of Ottawa, trashed the city, and terrorized its residents — with current Tory leader Pierre Poilievre personally delivering them coffee and doughnuts — the Public Order Emergency Commission has released its verdict: The government's invocation of the Emergencies Act was appropriate.
"In my view, there was credible and compelling information supporting a reasonable belief that the definition of a threat to the security of Canada was met," Justice Paul Rouleau, the commission's leader, said in the report. "I have concluded that Cabinet was reasonably concerned that the situation it was facing was worsening, and at risk of becoming dangerous and unmanageable."
The report was also critical of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his do-nothing government: "I find the Province of Ontario's reluctance to become fully engaged in such efforts directed at resolving the situation in Ottawa troubling," Rouleau stated — a mild rebuke when you remember that Ford absented himself from the crisis by going on a snowmobiling trip, even posting photos from his vacay on social media.
So there. The only thing we'd quibble with is the Canadian press and its insistence that the convoy "truckers" were legitimate in any way. "The protesters were angry with the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements," the CBC says. Nope, nope, nope. That was their cover story. In reality, they were a bunch of slobby Canadian-style Trumpster types who hated Justin Trudeau and wanted to change the government, not by election but by force.
This crap has happened in three democratic countries now, in three different ways — the US, Canada and Brazil. When are people going to wake up? We cats HISS.
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