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LemonDrops's avatar

Huge fan of "Quarterly Essay" and delighted to see it be emulated!

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Roy Brander's avatar

It's not an issue I feel very even-handed about. I'll be glad to read it for a sense of whether I'm right that anybody attempting to be conciliatory would immediately have lost the moral-suasion power to speak for the Convoy. When Jason Kenney tried to be conciliatory, cancelling most restrictions, journalists couldn't find anybody at Coutts to speak for the blockade, but random participants questioned, indicated that the gesture was like nothing to them - that anything short of total compliance wouldn't move them. Kenney was as good a friend in power as they had, and he went under the truck the moment he was not fully-compliant. The elevation of Danielle Smith also suggests a total lack of conciliation.

But! Most journalists try to find the most-inflammatory people to quote, throw the biggest scare into their readers that they can. Many thanks for taking the opposite approach.

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