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"Special temporary measures that may not be appropriate in normal times" by Nathan Jones

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.
— Ryszard Legutko in The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols

The Prime Minister has neither self-confidence nor the confidence of the Canadian people. Resorting to the Emergency Act demonstrates his cowardice and desperation.