Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]
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Halifax Tar
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Lawsuit filed against convoy organizers, seeking damages on behalf of downtown Ottawa residents
Organizers of the 'Freedom Convoy' that has gridlocked downtown Ottawa for the last week are facing a potential $9.8-million class-action lawsuit over continuous vehicle horn noise, filed on behalf of residents of the city's downtown core.www.ctvnews.ca
Has that ever been done before ?
Ignoring Pat King and company? You do know his background right? Why legitimize that. This isn’t a trucker thing anymore.
Not sure.
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Scary precedence to set.
The only thing I can think of is the lawsuit in the US against the Jan 6th organisers. But I’m unsure if we have similar precedence in Canada.
One expert weighed in a few days ago about businesses looking to file a suit. This is a bit different as it’s a class action on behalf of residents. I note what he says about the length of the protest possibly being a thing that could be a factor.
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It isn't a trucker thing anymore... It wasn't by the time it hit Ottawa. It appears to be growing though, which might have been stopped if people in authority, and the media hadn't pretended it was just a racist trucker thing. If they had made any attempt at all to let people know they were sympathetic to their frustrations, and that they would look into ways to alleviate restrictions as they could, it could have pretty easily taken some of the wind out of the protest sails.
Dr. Tam has already come out and said we need to adjust to an endemic COVID world, I suspect she would have been advising the government of that at the time this kicked off as well. So why did the government choose to play nasty politics, when they could have been the peacemakers?
If it was just about racist truckers, why would farmers be going to Toronto? Unless now truckers, and farmers are racist...
To be clear, I'm not really in favour of the protests, despite arguing against the way they have been handled.
Edit: I'm also not really against it... I kind of don't care one way or another.
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Like an OC's hour when the OC puts their notebook away and crossed their arms eh
Trudeau meeting people would:
1. Stop him from looking like a hypocrite on the world stage (See India Farmer protests)
2. Give Canadian citizens a chance to be heard (See We see you / We hear you mantra)
3. Give the protestor leadership an opportunity to put their foots in their mouth and possibly loose support and steam when moderates want to distance themselves with the movement.
Farmer's are apparently joining now. Who's next? Unless you don't think there's anyone else in the country who feels ostracized.
Personally I can't stand protestors blocking citizens from going where they want. At all. I would take someone sitting outside of my house blaring a horn a lot less stotically than Ottawa residents are.
But the government played a big part in what brought this to pass, pretending it will go away probably won't end how they think.
Trudeau meeting people would:
1. Stop him from looking like a hypocrite on the world stage (See India Farmer protests)
2. Give Canadian citizens a chance to be heard (See We see you / We hear you mantra)
3. Give the protestor leadership an opportunity to put their foots in their mouth and possibly loose support and steam when moderates want to distance themselves with the movement.
Farmer's are apparently joining now. Who's next? Unless you don't think there's anyone else in the country who feels ostracized.
Personally I can't stand protestors blocking citizens from going where they want. At all. I would take someone sitting outside of my house blaring a horn a lot less stotically than Ottawa residents are.
But the government played a big part in what brought this to pass, pretending it will go away probably won't end how they think.
I’ve been fairly consistant about Trudeau meeting with those three. My response was to Jarnhammer suggesting that is who he can meet. If the organisers were not racists or made racist statements it would have been harder to paint them as such. Unfortunately guilt by association and failure to disavow has led to the narrative being lost.
I said this a while ago. They lost the narrative.
I said this a while ago. They lost the narrative.
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How is it scary? Since there hasn't been a ruling yet there has been no precedent arising from this incident. As for individual citizens or businesses (particularly businesses) filing applications for injunctions against and subsequently seeking damages from protesters, it's been done before, most notably against logging protestors in BC. The injunctions and claims for damages have not always been successful.
Maybe put away the fuck Trudeau signs and stop asking to have the government dissolved. That might be a good first step. Middle ground is not something being offered by any side.
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At this point this is just hilarious and can only go south, the stand offs of the stupid is only escalading into a prolonged mess. This is all nicely contributing to whatever is destructive to Confederation, which is a good thing sitting from my chair in the West. Just get rid of all restrictions like the demonstrators want and when the sixth wave comes we can all point at the real problem - our crappy healthcare system. It's a bad idea implemented poorly.
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Gofundme is cutting their throat, If they received any financial benefit from holding the money I hope they get sued. My guess is your going to see a non-partisan version of gofundme start up. I hope all those people who donated start hounding them.
I’m pretty sure money can be returned but not sure how that works. I could be wrong.
I mean the actual people who were ext to get the money.
I don’t know if I could take that kind of irony.
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