You cannot be serious. The Freedom convoy may have been misinformed but the government response was an absolute disaster and the courts have agreed.

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cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"Misinformed" is a strange word for what was clearly an attempt at a coup, with massive amounts of foreign money involved?

The RCMP and other agencies and the province were not doing their job. I was not a fan of Trudeau, but I don't really know what they could have done to resolve the situation.

(And that is in fact one of the reasons I'm suspicious and critical of this bill. I don't think giving law enforcement agencies additional powers will resolve anything, as when push comes to shove they are often full of people on the same side as the malevolent forces that sibling / parent commenter is referring to)

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giantg2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is the first I've heard that called a coup. Was there and actual overthrow attempt?

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cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It was clearly communicated by their leaders that they weren't leaving the streets until the government resigned (or "all pandemic measures dropped", which the fed gov't had no power to do as the majority were either provincial mandates or were forced on us by the US gov't)

Also the exact same set of people (and I mean, literally, look up the names of the leaders) tried almost exactly the same thing a few years earlier around carbon tax and environmental issues. But the government was stronger then and Canadians more united.

And yes, they had massive and well documented funding from American conservative lobby groups, in both instances.

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hylaride 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's not a coup. That's an illegal protest. They were all a bunch of self-centred idiots, but let's not give them credit for something that it wasn't.

	▲	cmrdporcupine 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Illegal protest that involves the dissolution of an elected government, and the leader of the opposition hob-knobbing with them? Maybe not technically a coup if there's an election held right after, fair. Let's just agree to call it "tried to overthrow the government."

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dismalaf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A coup d'état is when you forcibly overthrow a government AND install someone else illegally (usually yourselves). Asking the current government to resign isn't a coup by any definition.

	▲	cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, that's why they had PP bringing them donuts and coffee