So that parliament does not come under attack from the Capitol!

Friends around the world contact me to overwhelm me with questions about the trucker crisis that is crippling Canada’s national capital. This crisis does not go unnoticed; it is making headlines around the world.

It’s that Canada, with its young and cool Prime Minister, has the reputation of being a country of openness and peace. The country where life is good and where everyone wants to immigrate.

The nagging question that comes back to my friends, even if they are not antivax, is always the same. Why is this government with such a progressive reputation so closed to the idea of ​​allowing truckers to free themselves from vaccination restrictions, when more than 90% of Canadians are already vaccinated?

In my attempts to explain the complexity of the matter, I cannot help but think of the teachings of Barbara Coloroso. She was my guru of the 2000s, the woman who allowed me to get through my children’s teenage crises. I was a young single parent, and I wanted to raise my children away from my original culture, which advocated very strict education and physical punishment. I must admit that Barbara C. saved my life… and that of my children! So I was on the lookout for the American speaker and author of international renown in the areas of parenting, school discipline, non-violent conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice. In Montreal schools, parents packed in like sardines to listen to him. We drank in the words and the advice of the lady with the white hair. She did not offer us solutions to our problems, but she gave us the tools to better face the difficulties with our children and to raise them better.

According to Barbara Coloroso, there are three categories of parents, “brick-wall parents” (rigid and controlling); “Jellyfish parents” (very permissive and without structure) and “back-bone parents” (with structure and latitude for more creativity). Among his surviving phrases is this: “Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all the control comes from outside. »

You are going to tell me: what is the relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the trucker crisis? Well, I find that in crisis situations, the work of politicians comes oddly close to that of parents with teens in crisis. And if there’s one thing that Barbara C. advises us not to do with teenagers, it’s to denigrate them and make them understand that their “bobos” are not important! Listening and compassion are also important in politics!

Here, a good example of a “back-bone parent” type solution is the decision of the Legault government, which decided to back down on the compulsory vaccination of hospital staff when it realized that it risked losing 20% ​​of its nursing staff in hospitals already in a perfusion situation.

However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the trucker crisis and his “bashing” of their demands is closer to the “brick wall parents” way, which could lead us straight into a wall if he don’t change tactics, and quickly!

The situation has become dangerously escalated. We are no longer ahead of the Canadian truckers who have suffered from the pandemic. These men and women who spend their lives in their machines and who, for the past two years, have had to brave the forests to meet their needs, without being able to stop during the long days or nights of driving to sit down in a restaurant. Fed up is therefore legitimate, and demonstrations are completely acceptable in a democracy.

What is frightening today is the specter behind who wants to instrumentalize these demonstrations to bring us back to the American fractures between the Democrats and the far right. Their machine is well oiled, Fox News gets started. And many others, like Ted Cruz. A spectrum with shots that send shivers down your spine. We saw him grow up in the United States and become the monster that unites more than 70 million Americans who no longer believe in democracy. Its highlight: the assault on the Capitol, in Washington, on January 6, 2021.

This crisis in Ottawa is too serious for the police to solve alone. The Canadian government will have to use intelligence to defuse the crisis as quickly as possible…

When our democracy is in danger, abdicating so that the truckers obtain their demands against the vaccine passport is like the mismatched colors of our child’s socks. The most important thing is that he sleeps at the right time… mismatched socks are secondary, and we can live with them, Barbara Coloroso would tell us.

We are coming out of this pandemic well psychologically, physically and financially. In addition, we must not come out more divided!