With a convoy of protesters gathering in the nation’s capital, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole addressed reporters Thursday evening and called on everyone — protesters and others — to “take the temperature down.”
That’s not a bad notion. A calm discussion about the vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers — its purpose, its consequences and the merits of the alternatives — might be useful right now, especially after a long and painful two pandemic years.
But it doesn’t necessarily follow that compromise or unanimity is possible here. And if the temperature needs lowering, it’s all the more unfortunate that the words and actions of some Conservative
