Rex Murphy: Rich in the sense that issue after issue is mingling with this ever-swelling protest, greatly broadening from the original impulses that brought it about. It started around mandates and triple vaccines as they affected a single industry, but it is now so much more. It is among other things, a contest over civil rights; the guttering of the Charter; about Canadian politics as seen from the metropolises of central Canada versus the view from the always less regarded concerns and sensibilities of rural and Western Canada.
Also, as it has evolved, it has given form to the deep divisions of class and economic standing made starkly manifest under the COVID lockdown regimes — a brutal rebuttal of that silly mantra that “diversity is our strength.” Not when diversity takes the form of one set of Canadians having it rather better than another set. And certainly not when one set, those at the lower end of economic security, mount a protest and receive contemptible denunciation from the prime minister and some of the higher elements of the Canadian press.
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