TYRANNY ARRIVES IN CANADA

The War Measures Act has been deployed only twice in the modern history of Canada, and both times by the same left-wing family dynasty. Pierre Trudeau invoked it during the 1970 “October Crisis” in response to the Front de Libération du Québéc’s (FLQ) campaign of public mayhem, and now by the son in response to a legitimate protest against the government’s draconian Covid measures and mandates that have crippled the country. In neither case was a war footing necessary. In the first instance, as many believe, police had all the tools needed to track down and arrest the insurrectionists; a military presence was unnecessary. In the second, the willingness to meet with the truckers, to engage in dialogue, and to consider relaxing the Covid restrictions, as is now occurring in many countries and states around the world, would have been sufficient to defuse the situation. The current national disruption is mainly due to the prime minister’s impolitic intransigence.