With the benefit of hindsight and questions in parliamentary committees, the federal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa is unraveling. Rather than considering some introspection and learning from their errors though, federal officials and senior bureaucrats appear determined to double down by creating and offering new, dubious justifications for the government’s actions last February. The latest comes from Department of Public Safety manager Ryan Schwartz as he told a Commons transport committee “misinformation and disinformation” from the truckers’ convoy threatened social cohesion. Schwartz couldn’t expand upon or define exactly what this misinformation or disinformation was, nor could he define social cohesion. He did appear confident though that these things contributed to the need for invoking exceptional government powers to shut down the convoy protests. Social cohesion is indeed a tricky concept to define. It has been used as a buzzword …