Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s monumentally misguided emergency measures are an insult to Canadians | National Post

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his sophomoric musings on the nature of Canada some years back, famously declared that Canada has no core identity, most of us thought he was stating his opinion, however ridiculous, of the country as he saw it at the time.

We were wrong, ever so wrong. He was stating an ambition. He was declaring a goal.

After six years of the most amateur government this country has ever suffered, with the invocation of the most crushing legislation any government can call upon, the Emergencies Act, to attack and subdue a group of ordinary Canadian workers, he s well on the way to achieving his post-national ambitions.

That s one core value out the window: the right to peaceful protest. The invocation of wartime-like emergency powers by the national government to deal with a workers protest is grotesquely overwrought, something very close to lunatic.

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Certainly seems so to me.