> what would you instead recommend to the government to do so that people could carry on with their lives and not have their likelihood shut down? I understand

> what would you instead recommend to the government to do so that people could carry on with their lives and not have their likelihood shut down? I understand how frustrating this is for Canadians who don't agree with either the protesters message or their tactics, but the suspending civil liberties for all Canadians is a dangerous precedent. It should only be used as a last resort and I don't think the Canadian Gov has exercised all their existing legal options yet. > What could the government do? 1. The leader of the Canadian government is the leader of all Canadians, even those he doesn't agree with. Rather than paint the entire protest movement as racist, misogynists with unacceptable views, one reasonable first tactic could have been to engage in dialogue with the protesters to hear out their grievances, perhaps with the aid of a mediator. Dialogue leads to de-escalation, marginalizing dissidents leads to escalation as we have seen here. 2. Before resorting to suspending civil liberties, access to the courts and due process, perhaps the government could have started by enforcing the laws already on the books. This is what they did at the Windsor-Detroit border and it appears they were able to end the blockade without violence from either side. It appears that in Ottawa, the police were reluctant to enforce the existing laws. This is a different problem and pretending the government had no choice but to employ draconian measures is disingenuous.