Canadians Need to Stop Tolerating Blatant Absurdities

The statue of John A. Macdonald lies on the ground, with the statue's head a few meters away, at Canada Park after it was pulled down by protesters calling for the defunding of the police in Montreal, on Aug. 29, 2020. Eric Thomas/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Over and over again, Canadians have watched the following spectacle: a self-evidently absurd policy is dreamt up by ideologues, implemented by bureaucrats or legislators with predictably disastrous consequences, and then subsequently repealed.