I'm interested in what people think of PM Trudeau invoking provisions of the Emergency Measures Act to deal with protests in Ottawa. If you want to read the provisions of the Act before you vote it can be viewed here.
I've left the poll choices visible because I'd like to see how Canadians vote, but everyone please feel free to weigh in with your opinion and vote.
I'm just curious why you didn't try and work with them? He made no attempt to hear and understand the trucker's side if you can't do that you have no business leading a country.I'm interested in what people think of PM Trudeau invoking provisions of the Emergency Measures Act to deal with protests in Ottawa. If you want to read the provisions of the Act before you vote it can be viewed here.
I've left the poll choices visible because I'd like to see how Canadians vote, but everyone please feel free to weigh in with your opinion and vote.
Always. But there are far more benefits to our southern neighbour on the whole.This tells me that whatever ails your southern neighbor is very contagious.
How is this different than large riots that have occurred here, or the FLQ crisis? We survived all that.I'm a no and I think it will be quite a stain on Canada going forth. I think Canada has an all new (and quite unbecoming) look to it - not unlike Australia, which I think also has a new image due the last couple years. A few weeks ago, I didn't think Canada had gone nearly as far as Australia has - but in the last few weeks, I think Canada ran right past Australia and took a big lead in the authoritarian government race.
Where have we heard that before?What Trudea did amounts to driving a thumbtack into a cork board using a sledgehammer.
It would be like sending troops to our southern border and deterring illegal crossings by using live ammo on the invaders.
I'm going to reply to your thread title, not your poll question.I'm interested in what people think of PM Trudeau invoking provisions of the Emergency Measures Act to deal with protests in Ottawa. If you want to read the provisions of the Act before you vote it can be viewed here.
I've left the poll choices visible because I'd like to see how Canadians vote, but everyone please feel free to weigh in with your opinion and vote.
It's not quite a precedent. His father did a similar thing to deal with the FLQ. In that situation the War Measures Act was used to put troops in the streets and arrest hundreds of people, most of whom were never charged with a crime. This Act replaced the War Measures Act because many people thought Pierre Trudeau misused his authority.I'm going to reply to your thread title, not your poll question.
Canadians seemed to overwhelmingly support the government's position while the protesters announced their demands were unconditional, so the answer seems to be he was "justified" in the social sense of the word, but in the historical sense, he setup a hasty precedent which seems ominous.
This in a nutshell. The protests became coercive and unlawful and at that point emergency powers were justified.I'd say that when its a large group of people, truckers in this instance, that purposefully block public roads and crossings in order to wreak havoc and inconvenience other people and also hurt commerce and normal business, then its not really a "protest", its domestic coercion. You can tolerate so much of that, and then eventually it has to end.
The authorities in the USA should have been far harsher on the domestic black supremacy riots of BLM, imo. Lots of people were ruined by that, it was even way worse than Ottawa imo.
Ya gotta have law and order, and ya gotta have your roadways and border crossings etc open. Do whatever it takes. This "cause" is dumb to begin with. ffs people.
*edit: voted yes
The FLQ kidnapped a premier and diplomat. These protestors were peaceful instead.It's not quite a precedent. His father did a similar thing to deal with the FLQ. In that situation the War Measures Act was used to put troops in the streets and arrest hundreds of people, most of whom were never charged with a crime. This Act replaced the War Measures Act because many people thought Pierre Trudeau misused his authority.
Justin's reputation may be tarnished forever for this. I already don't like him so my opinion won't change but it may very well be that the current Act is reviewed in the future to find a way to prevent its misuse.
Yes they were very different situations. But Pierre Trudeau still took heat for this response. In this case the situation is orders of magnitude less serious and again I think the public view is going to be similar - overreach.The FLQ kidnapped a premier and diplomat. These protestors were peaceful instead.
For better or worse our gov has not been nearly as heavy handed as either Australia or Canada.How is this different than large riots that have occurred here, or the FLQ crisis? We survived all that.
Do you have a point to make?Where have we heard that before?
You've not seen the video of Trump's walk to St. John's Church?For better or worse our gov has not been nearly as heavy handed as either Australia or Canada.
I can respect that, but the protests that involved explicitly illegal disruptions and other like activities absolutely had to go.I vote "No." This was not the Free Quebec movement killing government officials and setting off car bombs in crowded population centers. Such measures are not necessary and should not be used when dealing with non-violent civil disobedience in a law-governed democracy. By all mean, arrest the protesters blocking the roads and if they refuse to move their vehicles have them held in civil contempt to the tune of thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. But there is no need to suspend civil rights or order people to be unbanked in order for order to be restored.
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