Enduring a first-world collective wail of mild discomfort

The protest in Ottawa has been far too festive to be taken as a serious outpouring of collective anger by the Canadian public, or a truly angry mob bent on creating revolutionary change.

A number of bouncy castles popped along Wellington Street on Feb. 5 as the Freedom Convoy’s occupation of downtown Ottawa entered its second week. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 14, 2022

OTTAWA—The Freedom Convoy that has occupied downtown Ottawa since Jan. 28 has proven to be a lightning rod for the underlying pent-up anger that has been building among Canadian citizens over the past two years of COVID-19 restrictions. In the very early stages of the pandemic, Canadians took to ...

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