By population, we're a small country. If this becomes a regular occurrence, Canadians are going to need to pay for the tax burden of policing foreign-financed supercharged protest groups!
Beyond that, giving foreigners input on Canadian policy through money is undemocratic.
I miss American benign neglect.
It's perfectly legal, and it is very much a regular occurrence.
David Suzuki Foundation at some point received over 50% of its funding from foreign sources.
Quite honestly, the common attitude around this whole foreign funding is "I don't want foreign money funding causes I personally don't like".
Everyone is an internationalist, until that becomes personally inconvenient, in this case politically.
If David Suzuki conducted a protest, then his organization would be expected to pay for the license, the cleanup, and the policing.
I don't know what the final bill will be, but this one event is well into the tens of millions. Nobody from the protest seems too interested in paying for these expenses, and instead are hoping to leave it to Canadians to pay through taxes.
Sounds like democracy costs money to police. It would be much easier to just be able to "clear out" downtown (as the CBC puts it).
It's almost like there is an approved list of causes/entities that are pre-approved for unlimited amounts of foreign funding.