Posted at 2:00 p.m.
Incomprehensible
I agree, but it is incomprehensible that Ottawa has come to this. Empty or full cans are still circulating. The tents are still there! The money is still distributed to the truckers. The trailers are still there! The children are still there! Not to mention noise and pollution. A big prank. A failure on the part of the police to enforce the law.
Guy Blain
To wake up
I like your analysis and your insistence on highlighting the funding of this group. I dare to hope that the people of good faith who currently support the group of truckers will wake up after reading and understanding your column.
Gaetan Hebert
Doubts
I have some doubts: I doubt that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) gathered this information after the trucks invaded Ottawa. If the RCMP knew that American extremists were financing the convoy of truckers, how is it that nothing was done upstream to lessen this chaos? If the RCMP knew this information but withheld it, the situation is even more serious. If the RCMP properly informed the federal government of this information before the events and that the latter did not take it into account, this suggests a strategy either Machiavellian or inapt by Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. In any case, this chaos raises doubts about the capacity for governance and the sense of state of too many elected officials.
Christine Besson
Distinction
One must always distinguish between the error and those who are in error. You can hate mistakes, but not people. A principle that every government should know and that, unfortunately, the Government of Canada and its Prime Minister seem to ignore by its cavalier way of dealing with opponents of health measures.
Pierre Dupuis
Reconciliation not possible
You simply cannot reconcile with armed protesters who want to overthrow an elected government. These right-wing extremists must pay for holding the population and our democracy hostage. This is downright sedition.
Sylvie Fontaine
Instrumentalization
How to instrumentalize a crisis? In fact, how to create a crisis to keep power, like Jean Charest in 2012.
Jean-Bernard Dumont
Apply it, and quickly
The Emergency Measures Act is a very good thing, but now, it must be applied as soon as possible and severely, by stopping wanting to save the goat and the cabbage, as is common practice in Quebec and Canada. This is unfortunately what the demonstrators know very well, and they make the most of it. And they will structure themselves more and more. If we want to save democracy, it is high time to act.
mike lupin
Ontario’s Missed Chance
If the City of Ottawa, its police and Ontario with its right-wing premier had taken it seriously, we wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t be talking about Emergency Measures Act.
Claude St-Pierre, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
symbol of weakness
In fact, the Emergency Measures Act is the symbol of the failure of the various levels of government housed in Ontario – federal, provincial and municipal – to install a concerted plan to first prevent and, if necessary, quickly resolve this crisis fueled by hollow moralizing speeches and, above all, pathetic inaction. A bit like the parent who constantly increases the threat of punishment in the face of his child’s ever more disorganized behavior, the government, at the limit of warnings, is forced to use extreme means to solve a problem at the origin altogether minor. When the boots never follow the chops, you finally have to pull out a bazooka to quell the flies that have multiplied with all the sugar broken in the wind, and it is more a symbol of weakness than strength.
Alain Dupuis