[dghughes]

> financially alienating political dissenters

That's a fancy way to say racist truckers throwing a weeks-long tantrum were made to pay for their actions.

[gottorf]

> racist truckers

Come now, really? Cooler heads[0,1] disagree with that assessment of the trucker protests.

[0]: https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-truckers-want

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/stop-calling-truckers-racist-many-b...

[gruez]

>were made to pay for their actions

...which were being handed out without due process. Everyone is afforded due process - murderers, rapists, and yes even racists.

[Kareem71]

Exactly, this was the scary part for me. First time I've ever seen a public emotional frenzy escalate to a point where the majority agreed to suspend due process, for things that could have been prosecuted normally

[VancouverMan]

I'd say that the suspension of due process started long before those protests began, back when the various levels of government started imposing forced lockdowns, forced masking, forced injections, travel bans, and curfews, among the other violations of the most fundamental of rights and liberties.

We should also keep in mind that the majority of citizens were not in favour of such actions. If the Canadian public had widely supported such measures, then they would have been self-imposed, and just voluntarily happened. The governments wouldn't have had to resort to mandates and other forceful methods like they did.