While the occupation was about vaccines and mandates, for some it was about more than that. It was about trust…or more accurately mistrust. What manifested itself at the occupation was also bigger than New Zealand. It was a challenge the world over—people now couldn’t even agree on what was fact and what was fiction. People in the same neighborhoods or communities were living in different realities and that made solving our problems even harder. As I looked out over the lawn of Parliament, I felt sure that, globally, we would only solve this problem together.
