FUREY: It's time to take the narrative back from all these far-left extremists
“Too late! It’s already started!” That was the main response I received to my previous column that bore the headline: “We can’t allow the carnage in America’s streets to come to Canada“. It was in the short time between when I wrote the piece and when it was published that “peaceful protesters” tore down the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Montreal, a scene that saw a viral response of dismay erupt from a large part of the nation. The event wasn’t so much a political one as it was economic. The protesters were drawing attention to the now downtrodden state of businesses in Toronto’s usually vibrant Little Jamaica, which has been declining for a couple of years because of a major transit construction project that’s made it difficult to access shops. This whole entanglement is now looking similar to what happened in Canada earlier this year during the rail blockades. The public was initially told a narrative about how First Nations were livid, to the point of violence, at resource development in Canada and therefore wanted to shut down the national economy. It’s time to stop giving these extremists so much attention and start giving more air time to the moderate voices we can all get behind.
