[cmrdporcupine]

It 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]

That'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]

Illegal 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]

If 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]

A 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]

Yes, that's why they had PP bringing them donuts and coffee