Canada’s leaders should be confronting, not encouraging, the rage movement and its anti-progressive haters

Authorities in Canada, particularly the police, need to realize that this new brand of activity on the edge of illegality has to be taken more seriously.

The United People of Canada supporters gather outside their location in the former St. Brigid’s church in Ottawa’s Lowertown neighbourhood on Aug. 25, 2022. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 7, 2022

OTTAWA—It’s hard not to laugh at the guy in the tin foil crown, cargo shorts, and dishwashing gloves holding forth in front of a deconsecrated Ottawa church with some kind of homemade sceptre rendered from potatoes or papier-mâché on a stick. But it’s actually not funny. The trucker convoy-...

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