That is encouraging news.
I still have in my refrigerator the bottle of Trump bubbly that I bought for election night 2020. Hoping to open it soon.
Maybe I should get mine in the fridge too.
Reported by the Canadian Press:
“Protesters surrounded Alberta’s health minister, Tyler Shandro, his wife and two young sons Thursday at the conclusion of a Canada Day parade and a celebration of the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions.
Tyler Shandro’s wife Andrea was in tears and the minister held one of his sons close, putting his hands over his ears while a handful of protesters screamed profanities and insults.
“Lock Shandro up,” yelled one man.
“You’ve destroyed thousands and thousands of Alberta lives,” said another.
The abuse was directed at Shandro’s sons as well.
“Sorry buddy but your father is a war criminal.”
Shandro eventually handed his children over the chain link fence to onlookers.”
The story continued, but that was the gist.
I found this story heartwarming. Normally, I don’t approve AT ALL of citizen anger being directed at the families of our leadership, but these people need to get a clear picture of the extent of the damage they’ve done and the rage everyone feels.
They’ve already received tens of thousands of emails, texts, and letters describing the hardship they’ve caused, and they simply don’t care, so people are naturally escalating. When the decision-makers start to feel the fear and lack of security for their families that ordinary citizens have been feeling for their families for 17 months, maybe then they’ll make a course correction.
Shandro’s children weren’t abused, in spite of what the story says. They were told what their father had done, possibly in a loud voice. If only the suffering of the people who’ve lost their businesses, homes and family members were limited to someone shouting at them.
A friend told me a story about a tribe who lived in shanties with spaced slats for floors. The tribe went to the bathroom between these slats and when the mess got too high, they would move and build another shanty. That’s the way our political class works. They only move when the poop gets too high. I think Tyler Shandro might be listening now.
Timing is tough to figure but he will be back.