Murphy: It Is To Laugh

I’ve been looking up the various insurrections, coups, revolts and revolutions that have jolted the world, unravelled monarchies and ripped countries apart over the course of history. How else to get a better understanding of the terror and mayhem unfolding in Ottawa?

You know the story we’ve been hearing from the best and the brightest — former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who alone have stared the horror of Ottawa in the face and called it for what it is: sedition, occupation, insurrection.

As these voices have revealed to us, Ottawa is an inferno. From their scripts and musings, there’s a novel waiting to be written: “War and the Peace Tower: 18 Wheelers and the Apocalypse.”

As our prime minister has solemnly declared, and our best political science departments (the wells of bottomless wisdom that they are) have confirmed, the Ottawa “siege” has our poor, vulnerable country teetering on the precipice of utter dissolution.

The questions emerging from the depths of the anguished souls of these gifted observers are dire: Can Canada survive? Does a country that includes among its citizenry a pack of diesel-burning Huns barrelling down the Trans-Canada Highway from the badlands of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba even deserve to survive?

We have been cautioned. This is the most tense collective moment in Canadian history since the last episode of “Reach for the Top.”

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See Also:

(1) If we want more aggressive policing of protests, we need to be consistent

(2) Do we need a new party for the politically ‘homeless’?

(3) A real leader does not hide from his country’s problems

(4) Resistance or insurgence? Contrasting takes on the Freedom Convoy

(5) Police move to clear Ambassador Bridge blockade, but protesters remain

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