The Canadian Sickness

The RCMP report is merely walking on well-trodden ground. It offers no data that is not already self-evident and that has not been the subject of innumerable articles, essays, editorials and books. The real problem with the report, aside from its redundancy, is that it is etiologically flawed, citing the risibly wrong reasons for the sickness from which the nation is suffering—in effect, it fawningly recycles the government’s evasive talking points. As retired judge and senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy Brian Giesbrecht says, “the RCMP appears to be more like the servants of the Trudeau Liberals than a serious national police force.”

Thus, the burden of the report is that citizen disillusionment with the Liberal government is owing to “misinformation,” “conspiracy theories” and “paranoia.” The government’s policies are not at fault with regard to the approaching social and economic collapse. In a mainly blacked out and awkwardly written section we read, rather, that “authoritarian movements have been on the rise in many liberal-democratic nations” and “Capitalizing on the rise of political polarization and conspiracy theories have been populists willing to tailor their messages to appeal to extremist movements.” The al...
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