Carney spoke of commissions, inquiries, consultation, and other palliatives. Neither he nor anyone else has given us any comfort level that the police, governments or university administrators will henceforth respond adequately to mass demonstrations espousing racial hate and violence; any more than native extremists will be discouraged from describing the great majority of Canadians as “genociders, colonialists, and settlers” as if these roles were synonymous. We have no assurance that protesters will not return to blocking trains for weeks without the authorities doing anything about it, or that our judges will not continue to find rights in the constitution which do not exist, such as bicycle lanes, injection sites, and drug-dealing near playgrounds. If there were a new demonstration of truckers, would the Emergencies Act be unjustly invoked again and would our present prime minister write, as he did about the truckers several years ago, that they were trying to overthrow the government? It is impossible to be optimistic that anyone will ever be prosecuted for burning down numerous churches across the country over false allegations about the disposal of the corpses of residential school children.