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Ford Government asking for public comment on making protesting illegal (www.regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/ontario@lemmy.ca
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The Ontario government is considering new laws that would give police greater powers to break up protests, issue fines, demand identification, and potentially arrest people who refuse to identify themselves.

If you are against this, AND YOU SHOULD BE, you have 2 days left to comment.

Comment on the proposal here: https://www.regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/submit-comment/55215

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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If the government denies law when inconvenient, then we're all free from it. The same law that protects you from them, protects them from you. Take away the social contract and its gone.

Without protest for greivances, the only option for the agreived is escalation. If governments think manhandling protestors is hard work, its nothing compared to civil disobedience. Civil disobedience escalates into mobs and it goes on from there.

Protest is a form of pressure release, and a means to obtain redress of greivances.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    While I agree with you, Canada's history isn't exactly full of times that modern Canadians rebelled against injustice by their government (except for the indigenous people) and extracted wins.

    It was more often than not a peaceful protest, the government cracked down hard, and that's about it.

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