> financially alienating political dissenters
That's a fancy way to say racist truckers throwing a weeks-long tantrum were made to pay for their actions.
That's a fancy way to say racist truckers throwing a weeks-long tantrum were made to pay for their actions.
Come now, really? Cooler heads[0,1] disagree with that assessment of the trucker protests.
[0]: https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-truckers-want
[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/stop-calling-truckers-racist-many-b...
...which were being handed out without due process. Everyone is afforded due process - murderers, rapists, and yes even racists.
We should also keep in mind that the majority of citizens were not in favour of such actions. If the Canadian public had widely supported such measures, then they would have been self-imposed, and just voluntarily happened. The governments wouldn't have had to resort to mandates and other forceful methods like they did.