“All political projects that neglect human nature and disregard the lessons drawn from centuries of political experience have to compensate for their lack of realism by a disproportionately high degree of intervention in both the social fabric and in human minds. It often means annexing those areas of human existence in which [freedom from coercion] typically expresses itself and is most needed, such as education, rule-making, culture, thinking, social practices, and language.”
The Prime Minister has neither self-confidence nor the confidence of the Canadian people. Resorting to the Emergency Act demonstrates his cowardice and desperation.