It’s time to end the sedition in Ottawa by enforcing the law and following the money

Mark Carney

Contributed to The Globe and Mail

Published February 7, 2022

Mark Carney is an Ottawa resident and former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

In our capital city, many people have been terrorized for more than a week. Women fleeing abuse have been harassed. Many elderly have been too afraid to venture outside their homes for groceries. Families have been deprived of sleep for days on end by the constant barrage of 100 decibel noise. Control over the city’s downtown core, which includes the Parliamentary Precinct, was ceded by the police and taken over by what the chair of the Police Services Board describes as an “insurrection.”

Canadians can be forgiven if they thought this would never happen in Ottawa.

The goals of the leadership of the so-called freedom convoy were clear from the start: to remove from power the government that Canadians elected less than six months ago. Their blatant treachery was dismissed as comic, which meant many didn’t take them as seriously as they should have. Certainly not our public safety authorities, whose negotiations facilitated the convoy’s entry into the heart of our capital and have watched as its dangerous infrastructure has been steadily reinforced – a policy of engagement that has amounted to a reality of appeasement.---More...

Mark Carney wrote an Op-Ed in the Globe and Mail during the trucker convoy, demanding that the government go even harder than martial law.

He's the one who proposed seizing bank accounts. +

He's an authoritarian thug: https://t.co/LfiXiR6Pb1 https://t.co/ryWwgz265u

— Ezra Levant ???????? (@ezralevant)March 16, 2026