Commentary
Commissioner Paul Rouleau says it was with “reluctance” that he decided the federal Liberal government was justified in its use of the Emergencies Act over a year ago to quash the Freedom Convoy protests.
That word really says it all.
The idea that the government was right or made the right call or has been vindicated—all of that is inaccurate. Rouleau basically writes—and surely all Canadians know this to be true—that what went down was overkill that should really have been avoided.
Only those people who still believe incorrect media reports about how convoy participants attempted to burn down an apartment building or came to Ottawa with the intent to literally overthrow the government would believe that invoking our modern-day wartime measures act was the right call….