What's in store for Canada's future? We're all watching in morbid fascination as a country known for being polite to a fault (except when spewing self-righteous vitriol about the United States) is feeling its oats and edging closer to open rebellion against its despotic prime minister: a man everyone blandly voted into office thinking he wouldn't do much harm, but who has proven to be an enormous turd as a human being and a politician. I can see this situation with the truckers (the Honkening!) resolving itself in a limited number of ways, but what's your prediction? Some possible futures:
1. Citizens storm Ottawa's capitol building, seize Trudeau, and execute him. (ideal)
2. Trudeau steps down and gets replaced by someone better. (good, but not quite as ideal)
3. Trudeau steps down and gets replaced by someone worse. (darkest timeline)
4. Trudeau doesn't step down; things get uglier; Canadians do nothing. (likely timeline)
5. What else...?
In the US, we've lived for two whole years under a police state, and people seem generally okay with that. Shame on us all. At a guess, Canadians have an even higher tolerance for government bullshit than Americans do, so I'm thinking that, despite the truckers' valiant efforts, nothing much is going to change. Do you hear much from France about the gilets jaunes these days? Didn't think so. Same in the States: until people organize with their pitchforks, torches, and much better armament, and march on (or ride into) Washington with an actual invasion plan, we're not going to see anything resembling a revolution anytime soon. Me, I'd love to see Trudeau swinging from a lamppost alongside the likes of Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Swalwell, O'Rourke, Omar, AOC, et al., but that's never going to happen. So much for Disney's "If you can dream it, you can do it."
I'd agree with your #4 assessment. Still, perhaps we are in the early stages of the great awakening. The movement against government tyranny may gain momentum as more and more revelations expose the bullshit the people have been fed these past two years. One can hope.
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