'We're more divided than ever': Liberal MP breaks ranks and criticizes public health policies.Chris Selley: The calls for rethinking restrictions are coming from inside the Liberal house.This, in turn, would give hope to people waiting to hear when their kids can sit in a classroom without a surgical mask and their senior parents can have tea and cake with visitors at the old-age home. Lightbound wants the prime minister to outline a path to lifting restrictions on truckers and federal civil servants, as opposed to adding more in the face of Omicron’s decline. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The purely epidemiological pretext for this was, as Lightbound pointed out, not in any way apparent nor explicit - though we are seeing its effects on inflation, and on a skeptical, exhausted working class. Just at the time senior governments in the rest of the world have been adopting live-with-COVID plans, some of which even seem like ignore-COVID plans, ours was imposing a novel mandate on truckers as a way of imposing one last ounce of moral and economic pressure on people who fear COVID vaccines. Lightbound thinks his party is steering toward dangerous rocks. No, he didn’t use that phrase, “silent majority” - it’s just one that has been on our mind an awful lot over the past couple of weeks. But he also thinks the government has been behaving divisively and that unease with continuing disease-control measures is rising amid the silent majority. Lightbound has been consistent in encouraging the “Occupy Ottawa” gang to abandon its ever-shifting kook leadership and petition Parliament in peaceable ways that don’t involve strategic cruelty.

Tuesday morning, Lightbound called a press conference to profess discouragement at the Liberal government’s political approach to pandemic controls.

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