Whatever Rouleau’s findings, we’re left with an impression of Canada we could have done without
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.By the time he clued in, it was already too late. The Ottawa Police Service had no plan, couldn’t work up a plan and anyway was too embroiled in personal rivalries, internal backstabbing and staring contests with other forces to achieve anything useful.
Everything we’ve learned of Ford since he entered public life suggests he’s the sort who considers himself a law-and-order, cops-are-tops sort of guy. One of his earliest moves as premier was an ill-fated effort toa personal pal as head of the Ontario Provincial Police. Maybe he figured the Ottawa blockade was strictly a police matter and should be left to them to handle, but why he stuck to that view long after it became obvious they weren’t up to the task remains a mystery. He won’t say.
With the police flailing and Ford in denial, the pressure shifted to federal authorities, who definitely didn’t want it. Trudeau didn’t want it, his ministers didn’t want it, his caucus didn’t want it. They wanted the police to handle it, the province to handle it, the bureaucrats to handle it … anyone but an aging government with anBut they got it anyway, and it’s hard not to believe that what happened next had a lot to do with the fact that it was all happening right where they could see it.
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