hot tubbing at parliament - This is not a real photo
During the recent three-week-long occupation of parliament hill and downtown Ottawa by a huge truck convoy protesting vaccine mandates, a poignant moment escaped the scrutiny of the left-biased media far too busy broadcasting video of the one fellow with a swastika, and another with a confederate flag who were told, in no uncertain terms, to cease and desist, and did.
Serving members and military veterans sympathetic to the truckers cause standing guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier, removed the fence erected by the Ottawa city police and conducted a solemn service, followed by a minute of silence, then brushed snow, by hand, from the monument.
Now, a leader would have emerged from his cottage, took a bended knee with the Vets, in tribute to Canada’s fallen, then explained; We cannot remove the vaccine mandates yet, we will as soon as possible, and the constant horn honking is disrupting the lives of the good citizens of Ottawa. We heard you, you have made your point, and as good Canadians, could you please just all go home? They would have. But when you are labelled by your countries leaders as being racists, traitors and even seditionists, it tends to make people a little, peckish, and the first victim is common sense, as evidenced by the enactment of the emergency measures act to remove people in hot tubs, waving Canadian flags, by force.
Not that the federal government has ever been accused of possessing too much common sense, but a moment of clarity and common ground was missed here that could have disarmed the entire situation.
A friend texted me the other day with a single question. Can we switch our prime minister with the president of Ukraine?
It sounded like a good idea to me. Imagine a politician that places his country above his own petty aspirations or even his own personal safety.
-Peter Foster
