Truckers’ Protest: The Post Mortem

By Colin Alexander —— Bio and Archives--February 21, 2022

These conclusions appear to follow from the Canadian truckers’ protest in Ottawa:

There was some justification for the truckers’ demand for the reduction or elimination of Covid mandates. Other free and democratic countries have done that. So how is it fair that truckers, once regarded as essential workers, were targeted with new restrictions when Covid’s winding down?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have defused the situation by meeting with the leaders instead of provoking them.
Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson and Police Chief Peter Sloly were incompetent in allowing hundreds of trucks to arrive downtown. The military historian Basil Liddell Hart wrote of the importance of learning from history so as to avoid making the same mistakes over and over. Why keep repeating failures of preparedness ahead of potentially troublesome demonstrations known well in advance to be on their way—as the Americans failed ahead of the January 6, 2021 riot in Washington?
The invocation of the Emergencies Act is unconscionable overreach as a remedy for a fiasco caused by ineptitude at all levels of government.

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