Get Ready for the Biggest Game of Whack-A-Mole the World Has Ever Seen

What happened on the streets of Ottawa these past three weeks, and on overpasses and highways across Canada, and in countless other Canadian cities and hamlets as well, was people reaching across that impossible chasm, the space between human beings, to say: I can see you. I can see that you are human, and so am I, and here we are. Together. Making a go of it.

After nearly two years of forced distance, of the sowing of fear and distrust, of diminishing hope and passion, people came together with love in their hearts, to find one another, to represent the True North, strong and free.

Prime Minister Trudeau, author of the orders that forced so much despair and devastation, first responded to the Convoy by telling awful, dehumanizing lies about those very people, the people whom he was elected to care for and about, one and all. This fringe minority, he said, has unacceptable views, before making the farcical claim that the protestors are displaying antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia. In a fit of irony, he then asked to make Canada more inclusive. Then he hid. And then, in an act of extraordinary callousness, he invoked the Emergencies Act. Doing so allows him to shut down the protests. And so he did.

via naturalselections.substack.com

Heather Heying.