Most people want to make a good impression to seduce their interlocutors. This is even more true for politicians.
Protests and occupations have made them look pretty bad over the past few days. The hesitations of the authorities caused disorder and embarrassment among the citizens.
The premiers of Canada and some provinces are trying to regain control of the situation. Election deadlines are looming.
Even the Conservatives, federally and in some provinces, felt compelled to waver in the final hours.
This does not guarantee that everything will change.
Justin Trudeau
The Prime Minister of Canada is the king of the blunder and he has demonstrated it on several occasions.
His laissez-faire approach to a vociferous minority has encouraged the excesses of the ultra-right and their more than questionable actions.
The invocation of the Emergency Measures Act suggests that he wants to straighten the bar, however he adds few means to control these demonstrators with dubious objectives.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is in the same vein.
Conservatives also cooled their public enthusiasm for troublemakers, aware that they were damaging their image.
All this demonstrates the incompetence of the parties in power at the federal level in the management of conflicts!
Francois Legault
As for the Prime Minister of Quebec, one might wonder if the refusal to see the Emergency Measures Act applied in Quebec is only a maneuver to restore the image of his soft nationalism.
We also imagine that its accelerated “soft” of the last few days depends more on a decline in popularity in the Quebec region than on new scientific data.
If the economy has taken precedence over people’s lives on many occasions during the pandemic, it will now be the electoral ambitions of politicians that will dominate their decisions!