This column is an opinion by Ethan Nicholls, a student at the University of Ottawa. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
Dominating the news for three weeks, the occupation of Ottawa by what protesters called the Freedom Convoy managed to make Canadian politics resemble that of the U.S. more than most of us are probably comfortable with.
It is a point of pride in Canada to have measured political discourse, despite the massive partisan carnival so close to our southern border. Yet somehow a small group of truckers and their supporters managed to immobilize the capital city’s downtown core, hijack
