Leave the uniform out of this so-called ‘freedom’ fight

As individuals, veterans and serving soldiers still have a right to their personal opinion and choice, but when you seek to represent something greater by invoking your military affiliation, you are falsely implying you represent the collective.

The National War Memorial in Ottawa is pictured on Feb. 16. One has to question why individuals would seek to make this a military issue by sporting their old uniforms and declaring themselves to be veterans on either side of this cause, writes Scott Taylor. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 21, 2022

OTTAWA—On the evening of Thursday, Feb. 17, the Ottawa Police Service began its large-scale crackdown on the remaining holdouts of the so called “Freedom Convoy” that had occupied our nation’s capital for the previous 21 days. As many of us predicted, the raucous, would-be revolution petere...

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