During another tense week in Ottawa, the most interesting conversation was taking place not between protesters and authorities, or the government and the opposition, but between Liberal backbenchers.
A week after Conservative MPs formally registered their unhappiness with Erin O’Toole, Liberal MP Joël Lightbound summoned reporters to a news conference on Tuesday morning.
Lightbound proceeded to lay out a series of concerns about the impact of public health restrictions and vaccine mandates, the Liberal government’s handling of those issues and the politicization of health policy. While he condemned the most extreme elements of the convoy protest in Ottawa and called for the blockade to
