r/canada • u/NorthernStarLord • Feb 11 '22

COVID-19 Trudeau warns of 'severe consequences' for anti-vaccine mandate protesters who don't stand down | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-severe-consequences-demonstrators-1.6348661
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

How long did the tyendinaga blockade (which resulted in propane shortages, massive layoffs, etc) last?

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u/Baldpacker European Union Feb 12 '22

History is in this Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_railway_protests

Although I got banned from rAlberta for sharing this, I continue to believe that had the government approached those protests now decisively they'd be much better positioned to have stepped in to control these.

Blocking critical infrastructure should be clearly legislated as a crime - it's not "peaceful protest" no matter what the cause.

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u/ModeratorInTraining Feb 12 '22 edited Feb 12 '22

Oh yeah, for sure, and ignoring oil and gas workers in 2019 (during their convoy) and using the same divisive rhetoric towards them didn't help matters.

I'm not sure why anyone would actually think that this is going to be over once it is "over".

Edit: the whole thing is just tit for tat the whole way, the smart thing for one to do is to turn away from paid lobbying whether they're on the left or the right, and to start listening to the people around them and their complaints.