That champion of Bitcoin, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre (Pee-Pee) tells us that he supports the peaceful elements in last winter’s “freedom convoy.” He seems to be waiting for Justice Paul Rouleau to complete his inquiry to help separate the good ones from the bad. Maybe he thinks those languishing in their portable hot tub were just idling as they waited to pay their fines for parking their truck illegally on Wellington Street, in front of the parliament buildings.
Or maybe Pee-Pee could have asked, when passing out donuts to these people, who came to see the progress in refurbishing our nation’s parliament. And then there were those testing their airhorns into the night to ward off peeping toms from disturbing the Ottawa residents.
But Pee-Pee and his fellow Tories are still determined to have Justin Trudeau and the liberals castigated for the use of the 1988 emergencies act. They thought it was a serious overreach and an abuse of power. I wonder if Justin’s father could have guessed that it would be his eldest son who would first use that act.
I think many Canadians would like to learn who told the Ottawa police that the convoy was just coming for a weekend? It would also have been helpful to know for sure just who at Queen’s Park told the Ontario Provincial Police that they could critique the Ottawa plan of action before they would participate in helping ‘clear the decks,’ so to speak.
Pee-Pee seems reluctant to give his opinion other than say he supports the right of protesters to protest for their “livelihoods and liberties.” What the occupation of Ottawa’s Wellington Street had to do with these concerns has never been mentioned.
And assuming that the liberty they wanted was to refuse vaccinations for a deadly disease, I think they should get stuffed. If someone is helping spread COVID-19 by going back and forth across the border without being vaccinated, they hardly deserve any sympathy. And if all these anti-vaxxers wanted to meet the prime minister, they were out of luck. He doesn’t just pop out of his office to do selfies with tourists.
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