Report raises doubts about legal system

DEAR EDITOR:

I appreciate the points made about the pusillanimous ruling by commissioner Justice Paul Rouleau. None of his conclusions do anything to instill any confidence in the opinion.

He buries the most essential facts of the whole affair: namely that Trudeau’s government considered the truckers merely a fringe element in the country and the most compelling reason for invoking the act, the security of Canada being in jeopardy, simply did not exist.

With those two facts glossed over, it is easy for the liberal press and media to trumpet their headline that the act was justified and ignore that there was considerable public sympathy for the truckers’ demonstration and absolute horror that the government resorted to such draconian measures.

The decision further increases the likelihood of most Canadian citizens to believe that there is corruption and dishonesty in our government and legal system.

I find myself becoming ever more cynical that the truth of most subjects is over-ridden by political wokeness and expediency.

The editorial is correct in observing that it was the responsibility of the federal government and the Ontario provincial administration to step in when the various police forces were ineffective.

As observers, most Canadians likely could not believe that a police force was unable to stop truckers from honking their horns and it was a young woman from Ottawa who was able to bring a civil injunction against them that ultimately stopped the noise.

Honking around Parliament Hill does not qualify as a threat to the security of the country.

It is an embarrassing and ridiculous event that I hope people can remember when they come out to vote in another few years.

Opinion letters like this one are confirmation for me that there is another point of view, but sadly it is not reflected in the headlines nor in the responses from government.

Nancy Buan

Victoria