You may have noticed that, during the inquiry into the truckers' convoy, Pierre Poilievre is nowhere to be seen or heard. Susan Delacourt writes:
Police and politicians had many fierce disputes about the convoy, we’ve learned in often-fascinating detail over the past three weeks, but one thing they appear to have all agreed upon is that it was a public-security threat of major proportions.
Nearly two dozen witnesses have now taken the stand at Justice Paul Rouleau’s commission hearings in Ottawa. Many of them have been police officers. Not one of them has given backing to this idea that the convoy was merely a fun-for-the-whole-family adventure. “Devastating impact” and “a crisis in Ottawa,” were among the descriptive phrases used by retired Ontario Provincial Police superintendent Carson Pardy.
Poilievre has said nothing -- although he did have plenty to say during the protest:
As recently as June, Poilievre was also still insisting on social media “that Trudeau could have ended the trucker protest in one day, if he’d had the guts to listen to the people — and let them go back to their jobs.”
Like Poilievre, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doing his best not to be seen or heard. Perhaps that's because he's too busy preventing Ontario's education workers from striking -- which will be their legal right after Friday of this week. And he plans to use the notwithstanding clause to avoid any legal blowback to his legislation.
There's no mystery to these people. We know who they are. And we do ourselves harm when we elect them.
Image: The Toronto Star
