Governments sometimes don’t grasp human nature, and that’s a problem

When they screamed ‘Freedom!’ on the streets of downtown Ottawa, they might as well have said ‘You’re not the boss of me!’

A Freedom Convoy supporter holds a sign at the National War Memorial on Feb. 16, as their occupation of downtown Ottawa entered the second week. For these people, campaigns against smoking, drinking, or in favour of helmets are just so much noise. The same for vaccine and mask mandates, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 2, 2022

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—It is a lesson I never forgot. In March of 2000, I was in Bangladesh, speaking to a group of doctors and administrators at UNICEF, where I had been hired to promote funding to deal with the presence of arsenic in 10 million tubewells in that country. I laid out the objectives of ...

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