Rex Murphy: A matter — I was going to write a little matter, but it’s not little at all — very much worth noting here is that a mass rally of big-rig truckers crossing the country, to go all the way to Ottawa in a Canadian January, is no minor undertaking. As I suggested in the previous column on this topic, a lot of what we have come to call protests commonly demand no more than hopping on a subway and heading to some downtown intersection, a squat on the pavement for a few hours, a blurb to uninquisitve reporters, and heading off to the coffee shop to post on Twitter.
This is different. It’s a protest that is taking work and time and real commitment. And it has emerged from people who hardly ever protest and certainly do not exercise protest as a hobby or routine.
As such it should be receiving much more detailed coverage, much more serious analysis, and certainly a respectful and full response from all our elected representatives than has so far been the case.
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