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by JamisonM 5y ago
You should read and listen to the statements of the leadership of the protest, they have in many instances called for a coup, they largely haven't threatened to do it themselves but they have called for it believing that the military w
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Can you offer an example of a protest you would consider comparable? Obviously shutting down streets for hours or a day is not "violence" but preventing people from enjoying public roadways for 17+ days in their own neighbourhood
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That seems to be the comparison you want to make, not me. Remember, I started with dissolution!
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It is wild to me that people don't understand that with infinite funds spent the day the first wave hit the first fully qualified nurses that would be hitting the hospitals would just be arriving now at the earliest . And those wouldn
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I think the commenter is exactly saying that they would accept a common ground that accommodates free speech and allowing residents to live in peace free of noise pollution, they are complaining that this common ground does not currently ex
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If you think that increasing hospital capacity scales infinitely with the money spent then I think your model of the healthcare system is incorrect and as such the premise of your question is incorrect. Likewise if you think that the health
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Ask NDP voters what they think! Bloc too! It is a minority parliament, if the position of the government was not well supported the government would have fallen.. This is not some pre-covid majority exploiting an old mandate like the Ford o
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by JamisonM 5y ago
The funny thing about the occupation of Ottawa is that it is very small! There have been many protests on parliment hill itself with ten times the headcount without incident. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa&#
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I think that Trudeau and everyone except the bumbling mayor of Ottawa have correctly concluded that the protest leadership is unreliable and not to be negotiated with. The mayor of Ottawa did negotiate with them and was immediately betrayed
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I agree that in any large group there can and will be agitators, but given the dug-in nature of the Ottawa protest it is reasonable to consider the relationship between the lack of enforcement, the relatively small number of participants, a
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I was very generous in my language here, they are actually asking for some extra-constitutional remedy involving "citizen committees" governing the country. It would be much more reasonable for them to be simply demanding the norm
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The Act does not in fact allow him to suspend civil rights, that is not what this law does, its predecessor did but it is no longer law. You can read about it in many places, its invokation has inspired a lot of explainers! I am familiar wi
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I am sorry for your loss and I hope that you and your family received justice and resolution in the end. I did not call this a coup and I respectfully do not regard the requests outlined as "drawing on reserve powers" in the regul
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It doesn't seem to address my concern at all. Trudeau did not indicate in any way that his support for the right to protest was contingent on the policy being protested. as quoted in the article: “I would be remiss if I didn’t start by
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The main organizers published an MOU before arriving in the capital and that organizing group still represents the occupation in Ottawa as their defacto leadership and by all accounts appears to be in control of the allocation of resources.
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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/what-the-truckers-want-and-... From the article: A Memorandum of Understanding posted to the group’s website sets out a framework to effectively dissolve the federal government in favou
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I am not deliberately using unfamiliarity with the term to suggest the truckers are calling for overthrow of the governing institutions of the country - they are in fact calling for exactly that, they published an MOU that didn't call
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The poster's assertion that none of the pandemic money was spent on increasing ICU capacity is false, capacities were increased in every province, in mine by about 35-40%. That said you can't healthcare-capacity your way out of a
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Locking bank accounts without a trial happens every single day in every democracy in the world. Any legal process where money is suspected of being dirty but is allowed to flow freely through the banking system until the conclusion of a tri
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Civil disobedience as I support it is a non-violent action. A lot of people cite these protestors as "non-violent" but there have been many incidences of protestors attacking or intimidating residents as well as intimidating the p
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The current government of Canada was very recently elected in an election that was mostly about the pandemic response and mandates in particular, the notion that this represents some undermining of the democratic process is a bit of a stret
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Their stated demands are the dissolution of the current democratically elected government, they've conducted educational seminars about the dangers of vaccination full of outlandishly false information. Anyone can believe anything they
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Support for the right to protest and support for a particular policy are orthogonal, is there any indication that the Canadian government supported their right to protest contingent on the policy in question?
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I am frankly still not understanding your point, sorry.
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> 7. In a few hundred years we will look at today's science the way we're looking at religions today This take I find particularly hilarious because if you look back at the science from a few hundred years ago.. it is pretty re
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> Inevitably someone will take control and raise prices to match the rest of the industry I don't know that this level of fatalism is appropriate, and if it sets the new level for the rest of the industry at a lower rate that would
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Speaking for Ontario, one province over from me, models with error bars is pretty much what the public was presented with every time they imposed new restrictions.
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> if X% more people are vaccinated, we will have Y more hospital beds, and Z more elected procedures.. But the problem there is you are not asking for nuance, you are asking for.. lies? The answer is that more vaccination means more hosp
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I think opposing car-centric urban planning is orthogonal to ICE vs EV issue but I understand the perspective. You're not going to tear up every city in North and South America and make them better planned on a timeline that is helpful
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I agree, if I understand you correctly. We are on the path to making driving n-times more energy efficient, fussing over if that results is 30 or 40% more driving is missing the forest for the trees. Rebuilding car culture from the ground u

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