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"Legal" is a strong word for it. It's possible because there is a law that lets the government suspend due process when there is a war or something. And they've
by version_five 5y ago
"Legal" is a strong word for it. It's possible because there is a law that lets the government suspend due process when there is a war or something. And they've chosen to frame the protest as something dire enough to invoke that law. So who's going to stop them?
This is exactly the kind of thing that people were worrying about Trump doing in 2016: breaking societal norms and acting like a strongman, and getting away with it because the legal framework assumed leaders would all act like gentlemen. It's what you hear about people like Orban and Poland's leader doing, ignoring convention to push their own agenda. And now it is happening in Canada
- encryptluks2 5y agoThere are also laws in the US that prevent certain people from striking. Simply signing a phone contract or registering on a website these days eliminates your constitutional rights, like to trial by jury. The laws are written by corporations and people are just now realizing that freedom never really existed, at least not to the extend they were lead to believe.
- Manuel_D 5y ago> Simply signing a phone contract or registering on a website these days eliminates your constitutional rights, like to trial by jury. The right to trial by jury is only for criminal cases. The ninth amendment hasn't been incorporated to the States.
- encryptluks2 5y agoThe seventh amendment does in fact lay out trial by jury in civil cases, but it was decided in the supreme court that states were not required to provide jury trials in civil cases; but many of them do provide it until you supposedly "voluntarily" wave it to do things like purchase essential goods and services like a motor vehicle or Internet service.
- jcadam 5y agoNotice our current president, or really any other major western leader, isn't condemning what Trudeau is doing.