People complain about left-leaning protests taking over a public park - these guys took over multiple public spaces in multiple parts of the city. About a square mile in the middle of the city.
The rail protests had international implications too
So if that wasn't enough to invoke the emergency act then it's hard for me to imagine why the Truckers were
Possibly because the truckers blocked a bridge to the US, and the US didn't like that.
But the emergencies act? Freezing bank accounts?
They didn't blow up the bridge did they?
- the private banks decided to close the accounts, ostensibly acting by themselves (but probably not) and not by government order
Stuff even two years ago is lost to history
>There must be an urgent, critical and temporary situation that “seriously endangers” the lives, health and safety of Canadians, and it must be so significant as to exceed the capacity or authority of the provinces to address it.
A foreign funded group with heavy vehicles invaded and took over downtown Ottawa and international border crossings. The province wasn't interested in dispersing them.
The Emergencies Act definition wouldn't allow you to halt a coup attempt if Ontario could handle it but chose not to. At a certain point you have to analyze things and say that if the law has a massive loophole then the law was poorly drafted.
“You can’t protest, there’s a government here!” - Ottawa residents
Case in point: look what happened in Israel when the Abraham Accords were signed, Hamas decided to go for the "nuclear" option.
It is 100% inconvenience, and if there’s one thing that can not be tolerated in these times, is any sort of inconvenience.
Well that's kind of the point - protesters don't have the power to change anything based on physical inconvenience. The inconvenience is merely a PR effort because protesters don't have any more effective form of of PR - if people are famous/wealthy/powerful/etc. they have better forms of PR available.
The problem with some styles of protest is that they're asymmetrical in terms of damage. A relatively small number of people who get worked up enough can congregate in one location and indefinitely shut down the operations of a person/group/organization/government. At some point the legitimate governing body needs to enforce the functioning of society, or they'll lose the mandate to govern.
Exactly when did the left leaning protestors have their bank accounts frozen? Exactly when did the left leaning protests get broken up.
All I remember is canadas stupid government supporting the left leaning protests.
In the states I remember fancy Nancy wearing an African shawl kneeling in the capital.
This sort of stuff is too obvious not to see. Good luck.
It was left leaning and Police were quite happy to handle it with all they got. Many hundreds or thounsands of protester everyday (or nights) for over 100 days. 17 years-old students being hit with Baton, pepper spray, , tears gas, rubber bullets, flashbang etc. It was so chaotic that vladimir fucking putin even call canada to sort its shit (!!!). Since then police really has dialed it back in the protest.
I wonder why the ruling class hasn’t opposed social mousetrap identity politics protests.
It really was eye opening in many ways. The media sucking up to the gouverment, the gourverment not giving shit about what end up being a large chuck of the population, forgetting they were in a democracy. Trucker were err. Well see for yourself.