A dark day for Canadian democracy ?

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Originally Posted by hunter06

BTW, didn’t know you where a cop, respect to that.

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Yup and I also worked alongside Billy Blair. LOL

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Originally Posted by Badenoch

Imposing the federal legislation was unnecessary. The police had more than sufficient authority to clear the protestors. The Ambassador Bridge blockade, a far more serious disruption, ended without the need for federal help.

Nevertheless, the commission has lowered the bar for when this Act can be used. The Liberals gushing over the commission report should keep this in mind when their party is no longer in power.

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They may have had sufficient authority but they did not have the resources OR Political direction.

The Police are the Public and the Public are the Police. (Sir Robert Peel)

You had Provincial Premiers all across this country afraid of their own Political base and who were FROZEN WITH FEAR and would not or could not make a decision.

This was probably solved when president Biden got on the telephone and told Trudeau to get this resolved and suddenly everybody fell in line.

Considering the vaccine mandates enlarged this occupation Trudeau should have gathered all the Premiers and held them responsible for all the individual loss of freedoms imposed on citizens.

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Originally Posted by huntervinni

Totally unnecessary use of the EA. All this would of been avoided if the PM silly socks would of taken the decency to talk to the protesters.......but instead he would rather take a knee at a BLM protest! It's a very sad day in Canadian history when our own government decides to seize bank accounts of peaceful protesters.

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As the Commissioner has stated in his report "the protesters did not want to be heard they wanted to be obeyed" that was not happening.

Bank accounts were seized as foreign actors including Capitol Insurrectionists were sending money into Canada to help destroy our rule of law as they tried in the USA.

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Originally Posted by fishfood

It was actually very peaceful for the time running and arrest made was very little compared to some others.

Did they need to use the emergency act no probably not.


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You probably would not be saying that if you were an RCMP officer the targeted for murder or a citizen of Ottawa held hostage.

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Originally Posted by Bluebulldog

OK, how about the following:

1. Completely blocking traffic on a municipal road ( HTA).
2. Disobeying municipal noise by-laws ( City of Ottawa).
3. Criminal harrassment of those who attended downtown who did not support their message ( Those who chose to walk down Wellington, Slater, etc wearing masks).
4. Disobey court order.
5. Criminal trespass ( Rideau Center, which was forced to close, putting close to 200 people out of work for the duration).

Do not confuse apathy on behalf of law enforcement with legality.

IF, the convoy protesters had stayed on point about message, then it might have had more credibility. However, the organizers chose to allow hangers on, and the disenfranchised to join...creating an environment of chaos, and lack of credibility.

By contrast, look at the tractor convoy that occurred several years ago under Harper.

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Let me also add the catche of weapons found and the intended targets being RCMP officers.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...outts-blockade

Let me add the criminal history of some of the so called organisers Tamara Lich and Pat King, a couple of self serving petty criminals living the high life of the donations sent to the protesters. Things were good for them until they got locked up and their credibility trashed under cross examination both at their own criminal hearing's and in front of the Commissioner. Any law abiding citizen in Canada should be ashamed to have associated themselves with some of these characters.

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Originally Posted by gbk

I did not follow these happenings much(not watching news just about nowhere) and there is this debate -can you please help out by mentioning few of those non peaceful acts happened in Ottawa, thanx

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Seeing as you did not watch much news maybe you could also look at the unlawful acts happening in Alberta and at the Windsor border and Coutts.

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Originally Posted by Birdbuff

I think we all have a very different opinion on what peaceful protesting actually means.

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Fortunately we do not follow opinions to get our own way we are required to follow the law or we would have anarchy. Plenty of stated law from the past to view on this subject.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sj...eck/art2c.html

Some past great Canadian protest.
Don't think was happening in Ottawa or it would of turned into a war zone.

https://youtu.be/B_Y_Ao0Bo_U

https://youtu.be/zoRXy-Y9v1E

And the blm crew that we are supposed to respect.
https://youtu.be/gifDHJ3wsIg

Instead in Ottawa they shoveled the walk ways played hockey and fed the homeless. Sang and danced all while becing ignored and demonized by our mainstream media.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

Yup and I also worked alongside Billy Blair. LOL

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I will point out, you don’t share the same views as all the cops there, I’m friends with several. Was there some bad apples in the group of protesters sure, but those were a minority not a majority. I personally witnessed the man with the swastika get told to leave by protesters.

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Originally Posted by fishfood

Instead in Ottawa they shoveled the walk ways played hockey and fed the homeless. Sang and danced all while becing ignored and demonized by our mainstream media.

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Yup they shoveled the walk ways played hockey and fed the homeless. Sang and danced all while being ignored and demonized by our mainstream media.
While also blocking roads, harassing businesses, stealing food from the homeless. All the while demonizing mainstream media trying to cover the event. Guess its all about what you want to see or don't want to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrBrcvUoyY