Justin Trudeau's Phony Higher Wisdom

Traumatized citizens, wounded families.

Photo taken by me in Ottawa. License plate and door signage digitally obscured.

I’ve been researching and writing my book - Thank You, Truckers! Canada’s Heroes and Those Who Helped Them - for more than two years. In certain instances I’ve circled back to check in with folks whom I interviewed early on, and have now updated their stories.

I first wrote about Rich and Dan, two Ontario aircraft mechanics employed at the same company, back in May and July of 2022. Because their industry is federally-regulated, they faced a diaboical choice: take the COVID vaccines by the end of October 2021 or lose their job.

Canada’s Prime Minister was responsible for this policy. It was central to his 2021 election campaign - a snap election called in the midst of a pandemic for no good reason.

Justin Trudeau speaks to Canadians as though we’re children. He’s a man of scant real-world accomplishments who imagines he’s always right and everyone else is wrong. He expects us to toss aside our own analysis, our own life experience, and submit to his phony higher wisdom.

I’ve never been a political junkie. In my view, Prime Ministers come and go. They do some good things, they do some bad things. Canada has had ten Prime Ministers during the time I’ve been on planet Earth, and I have no strong feelings about nine of them.

Justin Trudeau is in a league of his own. That man has inflicted grave harm on other human beings. He has wounded and traumatized families. Deliberately. Gratuitously.

After Rich and Dan declined to be vaccinated, they were banished from their longtime workplace. Their wives, employed in different fields elsewhere, also lost their jobs.

I’ve come to know these two couples. They are smart, caring, responsible, law-abiding, productive members of society. The kind of people you want as your next-door neighbour. Yet they were systematically abused by their own government.

All four found themselves suddenly ineligible for federal unemployment benefits. There was no confusion about what was happening. The state was trying to crush them. They were being ground into submission, persecuted, punished for believing they had the right to make their own decisions about their own bodies.

As 2021 came to an end, the financial hit was enormous. The stress was extreme. I hadn’t met them yet, and can only imagine what their holiday season was like that year.

Then the calendar rolled over. January arrived. Twenty-eight days later, Rich and Dan loaded up a van and headed for Ottawa. They weren’t part of any organized branch of the Convoy. They drove there on their own.

Beginning on Thursday, I’ll publish the updated version of Rich’s story.