When it was her turn to speak Thursday morning, interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen said MPs were facing “one of the most serious decisions a parliamentarian can make.”
She suggested that “history will not be kind” to New Democrats who choose to support the Liberal government’s decision to trigger the Emergencies Act to quell anti-vaccine mandate protests that have clogged border crossings and occupied downtown Ottawa for weeks. She called it the “sledgehammer approach.”
The choice by Bergen or her speechwriter to use the word “sledgehammer” probably wasn’t accidental. In October 1970, when former NDP leader Tommy Douglas and most of his
