They were loading up encampments with propane and diesel fuel [1] mere feet from the Parliament buildings. The threat was dispersed peacefully, including by temporarily suspending access to bank accounts - as a Canadian I fully support the government's actions. Those whackadoodles are free to - and continue to - protest things that don't exist to this very day [2]. I believe one of them continues to believe she's the Queen of Canada. [3] You know, the Queen who died last year. This was not about what they were protesting, but how, and the threat it posed.
This is completely different from a few different perspectives but the most relevant is that they lost access by judicial process with legal recourse.
This article however is about private companies making (from some people's perspectives) capricious business decisions with no recourse because gig workers are not deemed employees.
> They were loading up encampments with propane and diesel fuel [1] mere feet from the Parliament buildings.
You make it sound like the fuel was intended to blow up Parliament or something. Clearly it was meant to keep their trucks running and the propane was for cooking and heating the people within the encampment. This was a completely non-violent protest.
No, I implied it was a dangerous situation and I said it had to end.
These whackadoodles fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole during COVID, like many others. They were irrational people making irrational decisions. Who knows what they would have done with that fuel when a month or two went by and nobody was listening to them. Maybe some oil-powered camp fires? One of their leaders was the QAnon Queen of Canada. We'd waited long enough.
Imagine how the US government would have reacted to a stockpile of fuel outside the gates to the White House. There would have been no survivors. That's true in most jurisdictions around the world. The Canadian government ended this stand-off peacefully -- with people who were demanding things that literally couldn't physically be delivered. That's a damn miracle. The inquiry found the government's actions justified [1], and the ringleaders in this zero-ring circus have pled guilty or are on trial. [2, 3] And now that it's over, everyone is free to go back and protest!
Stop sticking up for these nutbags, lol.
It's time to put this whole COVID-induced mania behind us. Pretending these are somehow ideologues holding rational positions and making good decisions on that basis is just divorced from reality.
At the time, 2/3 of Canadians supported this action. Less than 1/4 were strongly opposed. Not just that but all the Premiers from across the political spectrum and all the Federal politicians had to sign off too!
This went about as well as it could have. Respectfully based on your post history it sounds like you're American. It doesn't seem like you really have the context on this one.
This is completely different from a few different perspectives but the most relevant is that they lost access by judicial process with legal recourse.
This article however is about private companies making (from some people's perspectives) capricious business decisions with no recourse because gig workers are not deemed employees.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/ottawa-police-seize-fuel-truckers-a...
[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/national-security-officials-...
[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n8aw/queen-of-canada-roman...