"Trudeau is dividing the country." These days, that's the mantra of the Conservative Party. Supriya Dwivedi writes:
Conservatives across this country have been trying their hardest to convince Canadians that the country is extremely divided because of vaccine mandates.
Maybe Conservatives think Canadians are either too dumb or lazy to look up our vaccination rates. Or maybe it’s because they assume Canadians are fed a steady diet of perpetual outrage in the form of commercial talk radio, tabloid print, and clickbait online content provided by Conservative proxy outlets like Canada Proud or The Post Millennial.
It’s impossible to tell why the Conservatives would try and suggest that Canadians are divided on the issue of vaccines, given that it such an easily disproven claim, as roughly 84 per cent of eligible Canadians are fully vaccinated.
But that is exactly what they've been doing:
Instead of speaking to — and for — most Canadians who have adhered to public health guidance and have rolled up their sleeves to get jabbed, Conservatives have decided to take their political cues from a group of people who have occupied the capital for the last two weeks and have in recent days clogged up major ports of entries, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in quantifiable losses to the Canadian economy.
Everyone is sick of the pandemic. And nobody likes having to deal with the virus’s impact on our daily lives. But Conservatives in this country are either too busy endorsing the world’s longest hissy fit, like Conservative leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre, or just readily throwing in the towel, like premiers Scott Moe and Jason Kenney.
In Conservativeland . . . you don’t get tons of likes and retweets for thoughtful, substantive policy proposals. But say that the prime minister is the greatest threat to freedom in the country, and watch your phone blow up with notifications.
You could vaguely call on the prime minister to end restrictions, like Kenney did. What restrictions, exactly? It doesn’t matter. Nor does it apparently matter that the bulk of pandemic management and restrictions are under provincial jurisdiction, and that the few areas of federally imposed restrictions for the general public — like showing proof of vaccination for domestic air and rail travel — only impact people who continue to refuse a safe and effective vaccine by choice. Those federal “restrictions” don’t actually restrict anything for the bulk of Canadians.
It's pretty clear what this is all about. It's about entrenching the rule of the minority.
Image: The Toronto Star
12 comments:
We are witnessing the total failure of our elected officials to govern and our police services to enforce the law of the land.
Governments have been exposed as mere tax collectors and the police collectors of speeding tickets.
That it took the president of a foreign country , USA, to convince Canadian officials to act
is disturbing and beggars belief.
TB
There is approximately 900,000 truckers and their supporters from one end of the country to the other including Newfoundland, holding this country hostage. While the rest of the world is waiting to see what will be the outcome of this farce, we people who have received our vaccine wait and wait and wait for some kind of solution by means of cooperation and discussion. Senseless people are just that, senseless. What do the truckers think would have happened if we (I remember it clearly in the fifties) had acted the way those truckers are doing during the polio crises? Perhaps if we had, half of those truckers would not be here doing what they are. Anyong
Point well taken, TB.
It's clear that a large number of the protesters aren't truckers, Anyong. But your point about the polio vaccine is well taken.
Yesterday an OPP officer used his police cruiser as a photo booth for Covid protestors .
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opp-cruiser-used-as-photo-booth-protesters-1.6348592.
In Alberta RCMP broke up counter protestors..
https://albertapolitics.ca/2022/02/small-group-of-edmonton-counter-protesters-manages-to-hold-up-noisy-pro-convoy-parade-for-close-to-an-hour/.
Is this Canada or the friggin USA?
TB
Owen don't forget to add in the failure? or complicity of Dugg, who obviously would rather be snowmobiling than governing. For the Ambassador bridge to be closed for over a week is a failure of everything and should be directed at Dugg Ford.
There was an injunction issued and proved to be totally useless, an emergency was declared and again showed to be nothing, as I have noted before if these stooges - truck drivers - were G20 protestors or on a picket line the disturbance would have been enthusiastically removed by those sworn to protect and serve.
These episodes surely makes me think that although we all believe in peace and good order the Police and their rulers have decided otherwise.
I confess I'm beginning to wonder, TB. Thanks for the links.
Everyone has been too late to this situation, Ben -- including me. I thought they would be gone after two days. I was wrong.
There are approximately 227,000 truckers with a shortage of 25,000 in Canada. My mistake…typing without looking. Anyong
And most of them are not in favour of what is happening, Anyong.
Is it not sad or perhaps ironic that some of us have shyly gloated upon the demise of the USA?
I confess to being one of them.
As a immigrant from the UK I have with smugness travelled Europe sporting the maple leaf.
I did this having explored and examined what it was to be Canadian warts and all for their is much to condemn.
After 48 years of a wonderful life in Canada I refuse to become American lite!
TB
We are better than this, TB. But, if we admire the United States and try to emulate that country, we'll lose our democracy, too.
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