| >Freedom also means the ability to live without having to suffer overbearing impacts from others. From TFA: >I don't actually have a view on the substance of the trucker protests and if Canada's COVID policies are good, bad or neutral. >I would further guess that the truckers are probably violating a variety of Canadian laws relating to how they can protest. >What would be a normal constitutional democracy political response to a problem like this is either: >a) let it play out if you think it is in good faith >or >b) encourage the local authorities to arrest them and try them in a court if you think it is not >Either is fine. >The right to assembly in Canada probably does not allow you to block the highway for days for everyone else. >I assume Canada still has police and courts so they could presumably arrest the highway blockers & take them to court In other words, he's not advocating that the protests should go on unimpeded (contrary to what you think). He's against the government punishing the protesters extra-judicially. |