These Canadian protestors were idealistic and naive. They had a valid gripe. The gov’t made an illogical decision that made their working conditions intolerable. They would have put more pressure squarely on the gov’t in the same period of time by announcing a strike for that reason and parking their machines at home. They’d have been withdrawing their services at a time when motor freight flow was already badly challenged by a shortage of qualified operators.
Instead they challenged the gov’t while making a concentrated target of themselves—a target for blame-shifting and then for reprisal. Now the gov’t can paint them as a destructive element if a strike coming after this makes things hard on the general population. It ain’t how you play the game, it’s how you place the blame.
We need to be learning from this and thinking a lot more clearly in the next round. There’s no excuse for bungling matters of this importance.
All I know is that Iowa Slim should be President of Canada.
“parking their machines at home.” Yes, that is good option. However, charging to the capital with thousands of others is fun despite the bad consequences. The good news is that the Convoy and the Jan 6 Rally exposed and weakened the tyrants.