It was by no means a guarantee as I opened Justice Paul Rouleau’s voluminous report on the convoy occupation and subsequent enactment of the Emergencies Act by the federal government.
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“I do not accept the organizers’ descriptions of the protests in Ottawa as lawful, calm, peaceful or something resembling a celebration,” he wrote. And later: “The bigger picture reveals that the situation in Ottawa was unsafe and chaotic.” So the report largely vindicates residents, like myself, who were angry at protestors. For over a year, many locals felt the acceptable limits of a civic protest were not just stretched, but broken, and those who reported real harms were the ones subjected to the protest and its participants. And now the nearly 2,100-page document gives us licence to say “We were right.”Article content
Smugness, though, is not a good look on anyone. It’s worth remembering that, as Rouleau noted in a brief statement following the tabling of his report in Parliament on Friday, “the majority of protestors were exercising their fundamental democratic right.”
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