Todd Whitcombe should stick to chemistry. His political views are interesting to read but in my mind opinions like his are why 67 per cent of Canadians are saying Canada is broken.
One-sided woke left-wing views of the world are destroying democracy in Canada and around the world.
Democracy is broken when political leaders are selective on what kind of protest is allowed to take place. It has peaked in Canada when a basically very noisy and disruptive but physically non-destructive protest in Ottawa is hammered with the use of the Emergency Act and other types of environmental protest can harass workers and destroy $10,000,000 in pipeline equipment on a forest service road in Houston B.C. in the same time span of February 2022.
Left-wing commentators like Whitcombe are silent on violent protest and woke left leaning politicians are also basically silent when environmental protesters blockade, intimidate and destroy things.
Yes, Canada is broken and democracy itself is not only the worst form of government but it is also broken.
Justice Rouleau said this in his report. He said there was a failure of federation. Policing did not work, the Ontario Conservative government of Rob Ford did not become engaged in the Freedom Convoy protest until the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor was blocked. Ford also failed to co-operate with the Emergency Act inquiry.
Yes, democracy is totally broken when the left wing and the right wing have been so polarized that there is a failure of federation, a failure of government to do things that matter. Woke editorials do express a view, a view that is further dividing the working class and the social class that wants government to be a nanny state. My definition of the nanny state is I want to be comfortable, but my work ethic is very poor, my life skills as taught in high schools and universities are poor, but I want, I want things for free.
The working class is getting worn out from all of the various forms of government that tax them to death. The price we pay for living in George Orwell nanny state is too high.
This is what the Freedom Convoy represented to me. The price we pay for living in the nanny state has reached a peak. People were voicing their displeasure with an out of touch, out of reality nanny state government. People that want to look after themselves have a limit to the number of other people that they can support.
How much of the woke nanny state can the various levels of government dump onto the working poor blue collar worker?
The price of the nanny state has gotten too high.
Wayne Martineau
Fraser Lake
