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This is the first I've heard that called a coup. Was there and actual overthrow attempt?
by giantg2 4mo ago
This is the first I've heard that called a coup. Was there and actual overthrow attempt?
- cmrdporcupine 4mo agoIt was clearly communicated by their leaders that they weren't leaving the streets until the government resigned (or "all pandemic measures dropped", which the fed gov't had no power to do as the majority were either provincial mandates or were forced on us by the US gov't) Also the exact same set of people (and I mean, literally, look up the names of the leaders) tried almost exactly the same thing a few years earlier around carbon tax and environmental issues. But the government was stronger then and Canadians more united. And yes, they had massive and well documented funding from American conservative lobby groups, in both instances.
- hylaride 4mo agoThat's not a coup. That's an illegal protest. They were all a bunch of self-centred idiots, but let's not give them credit for something that it wasn't.
- cmrdporcupine 4mo agoIllegal protest that involves the dissolution of an elected government, and the leader of the opposition hob-knobbing with them? Maybe not technically a coup if there's an election held right after, fair. Let's just agree to call it "tried to overthrow the government."
- int_19h 4mo agoIf that is your yardstick, I take it you don't have a problem with what e.g. Russian street cops do to opposition protests either?
- dismalaf 4mo agoA coup d'état is when you forcibly overthrow a government AND install someone else illegally (usually yourselves). Asking the current government to resign isn't a coup by any definition.
- cmrdporcupine 4mo agoYes, that's why they had PP bringing them donuts and coffee
- lm411 4mo ago[flagged]