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> I'm genuinely baffled by how you can see protests as damaging to civil society Protests that shut down cities and piss off residents for days/weeks at a time
by Nursie 5y ago
> I'm genuinely baffled by how you can see protests as damaging to civil society
Protests that shut down cities and piss off residents for days/weeks at a time can be, particularly when the protestors break a ton of laws, urinate on the memorial to the unknown soldier, and the police aren't interested in fixing any of that.
> suspending the charter and using an act that has only been used in wars
The act has never been used before, AFAICT it's a new one, and it's specifically not about wars.
- mardifoufs 5y agoThe current act is literally the replacement to the War Measures act... and of course it has never been used before since it was only created during the Mulroney era partly because Pierre Eliott Trudeau abused the original one during the October crisis. Kind of a pattern here. So yes technically it's not the war measures act anymore but if let's say there was a war, they'd enact the same emergency measures law. There is no seperate law for war iirc but at least we get to say that we technically aren't under martial law (because we renamed it)