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Jeffrey B. Meyers, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University

Candice Bergen's nod to Trump is a sign of Canada's descent, but the Charter may save us

Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen finishes her remarks during an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the situation in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Prior to becoming interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MP Candice Bergen was among the more vocal members of caucus to push former leader Erin O’Toole into an explicit embrace of the so-called freedom convoy that’s now occupying Ottawa.

CTV quoted Bergen echoing, almost verbatim, former U.S. president Donald Trump’s description of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., which ended violently, as having “good people on both sides.”

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