AS IN PETER SLOLY...AND I AM TRULY SADDENED BY THAT.
I am not a fan per se of Chief Sloly but I do support him in the way he went about keeping the peace in connection with the downtown truckers protest. No one hurt, no one killed no property damage.
He said time after time that he did not have the resources ...that is to say the number of cops needed to do more than they were doing. Experts - real experts have consistently backed him up in that.
The fact that both Trudeau and Ford felt the need to bring in Emergency Measures reinforces that Sloly was right.
If going forward the situation changes - in that there are injury and worse ...it will be on other heads than the former Chief's.
What was missing in all of this...from the very start...was any attempt to Negotiate with the Truckers et al. None. Why our Hidey Hole Prime Minister was MIA.
To prove that ...just the other day, Jimbo Watson finally did a bit of negotiation ...he sent a letter to the Protestors ...hope he did not use Canada Post. Poor way to negotiate but it worked. He asked the Truckers to move out of the Residential Parts of Downtown and low and behold they did.
Just think what Trudeau and Ford could have done if they too stepped up and done likewise.
In time it will sink in that Sloly was right I just hope nothing untoward happens between now and then,
As I See It...
'K.D. Galagher'
