Commentary With the ongoing trucker protests that have rocked Ottawa and several other Canadian cities and jurisdictions, it is reasonable to say that we’ve reached the peak of the politicization of this pandemic. Something like this was bound to happen. The support the protest has garnered is clearly a product of frustrations that have reached a tipping point after two years of botched pandemic responses. The two main ingredients of it are manifestly the collapse in trust in institutions and the astonishing lack of self-awareness of our politicians that continues to fuel it. It has also quickly become a culture war battle in which, yet again, the casualty is any worthwhile debate on COVID mandates and how we should work toward ending them. On Feb. 7, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh requested an emergency debate in Parliament to discuss the matter of the mutinous truckers and what to do about it. …