I was among those who said at the beginning that these Canadian truckers were taking a big chance out of naiveté. They left the government no room to save face while accommodating them, and they made a concentrated target of themselves. A decentralized independent truckers’ strike would have created far more pressure on the government with no way to exert counter-pressure on the protestors. The truckers’ lost earnings would have been small potatoes compared to what this is going to cost every one of them.
This is live and learn stuff for the populist side. The next necessary response will have to skip gentle measures and go right to tactics that make things harder in the short term for everybody. The elitists can then remember how harshly they punished people who went way out on a limb to offer an easier way out.
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.... A decentralized independent truckers’ strike would have created far more pressure on the government with no way to exert counter-pressure on the protestors. ...
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1. Timing is everything. The caravan would have worked equally well at lower cost to the truckers if they had just ended it earlier — before Trudeau emerged from hiding.
2. Live and learn. They can do the strike later.