Wow….the Russians? Just wow….
Most confounding, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, champion of the workingman, does not particularly care for this group of workingmen
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Let’s start with the least important, but most confounding. Jagmeet Singh, NDP leader, champion of the workingman, does not particularly care for this group of workingmen. Too many untoward opinions in that group, he huffed.
The other opposition leader, announcing that he would meet the trucker convoy, having, as is his custom, said the opposite earlier.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a rather serendipitous COVID isolation for a few days. Whether he will really be at home or in Tofino, B.C., remains to be seen, as PMO press bulletins on such matters are notoriously duplicitous.
(Before disappearing from public view, Trudeau made it clear that the truckers were a “fringe minority.” Which would usually be a compliment, as Trudeau’s entire approach to identity politics is to celebrate the minority, the tinier and fringier the better. Some fringes are apparently more equal than others.)
Then from the Kingston Police where a portion of this convoy passed through:
“While not condoning or approving of the convoy, Kingston Police is working in conjunction with the Ontario Provincial Police, Kingston Fire and Rescue, Frontenac Paramedic Services and various departments with the City of Kingston to reduce any impact on the Kingston community and surrounding area,” stated the police, detailing the veritable convoy of public officials on hand.
Now, if memory serves, when almost exactly two years ago the Ontario Provincial Police were out shutting down transport corridors to accommodate Indigenous blockades of railways and such, no explicit disclaimer was issued that the police did not condone or approve of the protesters’ actions. A blockade, by the way, is against the law. A convoy is not. It might not make a difference politically, but it should to the police.
There’s so much politics and disinformation internally in Canada that we do not need Russian bogeyman to blame this insanity on, but the more the merrier.