It’s the tyranny of the minority

Tired of the pandemic guys? Isn’t everyone? But the way to beat it isn’t turning a pandemic into a constitutional rights issue. The idiot fringe doesn’t have the right to issue death warrants to people who abide by the rules.

The so-called 'Freedom Convoy' is reminiscent of the idiots who interfered with health-care workers by conducting their ignorant anti-vaccine, anti-masking protests outside hospitals—even when it meant endangering patients, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

January 31, 2022

HALIFAX—So the tyranny of the minority is behind the wheel and taking dead aim at Canadian democracy. As they say about the internet, it doesn’t matter about the content of your message, it’s all about the size of the splash. As I write this on Friday, truckers who have taken it upon themselv...

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