Ottawa is acting like a foreign occupation. The longer those 'people" hold out the more likely this is going to go bad for them. Ottawa makes a wrong move now and they will face the wrath of a nation.
What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
-Thomas Jefferson, in a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams.