Need for national dialogues to repair damage from pandemic, protests

Short of bringing in the military as aid to the civil power, Ontario's state of emergency and other enhanced legal enforcement measures are the last hope to deal with what increasingly looks like an insurrection against Canadian democracy.

We need a national dialogue meeting, perhaps organized by the premiers and the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau through the Council of the Federation, where the science tables of the provinces and the federal government should, in a public setting, give the reasons why vaccine mandates and mask wearing is still necessary to save lives and prevent overwhelming health facilities, writes Errol Mendes.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ERROL MENDES

February 14, 2022

As someone who has spent his entire professional life in Canada, first joining the many Canadians who fought to establish the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 and then as a constitutional scholar and teacher promoting it, the use by some protesters of the Charter to claim a right to t...

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