Paul Wells: Sloly Was In Trouble
starring Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes, most of the novel is about Toby Fleishman, a young physician, reeling after his estranged wife Rachel drops their children off at his place and vanishes. The kids cramp his style as a born-again single! It’s unfair!At the Public Order Emergency Commission on Wellington Street, everyone has been talking about Peter Sloly for two weeks. Senior members of his command marvel at the way he micromanaged.
Whatever else went on in the three weeks between the convoy’s approach in late January and Sloly’s resignation on Feb. 15, clearly there were elements of a culture clash. An outsider directing insiders. Book-smart meets street-smart. Much of their mutual incomprehension persists. Of course, O’Toole had other problems too. Plainly so did Sloly. I found him an engaging figure, I’m glad the people at Massey College can benefit from his experience, but I take Thursday’s testimony from OPP commissioner Thomas Carrique as a bit of a tie-breaker. Carrique spent weeks waiting for Sloly to make a coherent request for defined assistance, and wondering why Sloly was publicly calling for reinforcements whose roles he had made no effort to explain directly to the OPP.
He said it took two hours on the first Saturday, Jan. 29, to realize the OPS’s tidy preliminary arrangements with the truckers, this business of parking at distant parks and riding shuttle buses to Parliament Hill, had collapsed. The convoy from Windsor had made it to Wellington Street ahead of everyone, and absolutely every other visiting protester wanted a piece of that action. Chaos ensued.
For Sloly, that Saturday began at 3 a.m. “I woke up, because I wasn't getting a whole lot of sleep those days. I woke up somewhere around 3 o'clock in the morning. Could not get back to sleep.
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