Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Opinion/Column

Opinion/ColumnTrucking

Ottawa has lost control of itself: Matt Gurney’s “stream of thought”

Rita Smith

2. The tactical situation for Ottawa is grim. Having lost control, it can’t get it back without a confrontation, and it isn’t confident it would win that confrontation. I think Sloly knows this. I think he’s trying to convince his bosses.

3. Ottawa is going to need to be “rescued” by outside help. Again, Sloly knows this. That’s why he’s already talking about the military. I’d think a police effort with massive reinforcements is more likely than a military response, but I’m not too confident in that prediction.

4. In the main, though, while this isn’t Jan. 6, per se, Canada doesn’t have effective control over its capital. It can get it back. It will. But for now, it’s lost it. Our government doesn’t have control of the capital city. Super.

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Pure class warefare: Ottawa smearing Truckers because we’re doing their job representing the People

Guest Contributor

The vast majority in attendance at Parliament Hill were not truckers at all. In Ottawa, at the protest and online, I have heard from many that it wasn’t even necessarily about the truckers or their particular beef with the mandates, but a general feeling of having had enough—enough of lockdowns and coercion, enough of lives interrupted, enough of masks, enough of families divided over the questions of vaccines, of children’s upbringings being marred by this psychological warfare.

The media, bless them, and many of the rest of those in their class—unions and other labor organizations, various government entities, and Canada’s political parties—had nothing to do with this movement, and they have no control over it. They were left out. They are viewed with disdain by the public, because they lost touch with the fact that people have had enough of this. What they call a “fringe minority” of upstarts did what they were supposed to be doing: representing the concerns of the many millions of people whose lives had been impacted by government overreach.

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Canadian soldiers facing Canadian citizens? “Amazing capabilities, incredible risks” Chief Sloly warns Council

Rita Smith

Chief Peter Sloly replied: “Thank you councillor. I spent a large chunk of my day out in Kanata yesterday talking with our public order commanders, and in fact at that meeting as we have over the last week we discussed the option of military aid to civil power. I’ve said it again we’re looking at every single option including military aid to civil power.

I’ve had those discussions with mayor, council members, the board, there is a process it’s extremely well established extremely well governed and extremely rare. The only two occasions that i’m aware of in the last hundred years was in the oka crisis and in the FLQ crisis one in the 1970s and one in the 1990s.

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An American view of the Truckers’ Convoy to Ottawa

Guest Contributor

The convoy is being joined by truckers from all over the United States too, rising up in solidarity. This is easily the most meaningful and impactful protest to emerge in North America. It is being joined by as many as half a million Canadian citizens, who overwhelmingly support this protest, as one can observe from the cheers on the highway along the way. Indeed, it’s likely to break the record for the largest trucker convoy in history, as well as the most loved.

Trudeau, meanwhile, has dismissed the whole thing as a “small fringe” of extremists and says it means nothing to him and will change nothing. This is because, he says, these truckers hold “unacceptable views.”

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