Commentary Supporters of the COVID convoys are given to overheated claims that Canada has become despotic, even fascist. But the actual course of the protest suggests a very different danger, namely anarchy. Despite their excessive ambitions and meddlings, governments in Canada are not strong. They can barely lift anything. What is striking about the so-called “siege” of Ottawa isn’t a Nazi riot overpowering authority. It’s that the police were incapable of acting or even realizing it. And once politicians decided to crack down, all we got for days was thunderous rhetorical volleys. One journalist I rarely agree with tweeted Feb. 14: “Just as hope is not a strategy, a meeting isn’t a plan. I am desperate to hear something from all governments today that is more than another (I took the swear word out) meeting.” Now Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act. But it too falls into the category of …
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