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Thanks so much for this heartfelt essay.

I always had the distinct impression our capital city was populated by a majority of rather smug, suburban bureaucrats. Now these "hard-done-by citizens" tell us they are "accustomed to demonstrations but that this time it was different". This time, it seems to me, they resented having their quiet respectability disturbed by working-class people - people who knew their rights, understood the sleight-of-hand played on all of us over the last 2 years and most awful of all were able to express love and happiness -- for 3 weeks straight.

If the lofty pompadoured fellow and his colleagues in parliament had had the humility to listen to Canadians' concerns months ago, this present cruel and disgraceful response could have been avoided.

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Thank you for a beautiful piece! It breaks my heart to see what has happened to society. I just don't understand how society lost its willingness to talk with those it disagrees with. I am devastated, and terrified of the slippery slope we are on.

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