David Lindsay： Protesting Isn't 'Un-Canadian'
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the importance of the right to protest and why it is a critically important right. I also talk about some of the protests that have taken place in Kelowna, BC and Vancouver.
Transcript
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I think one of the things that has developed over the last three years that really, maybe
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outside of Quebec, really wasn't an issue was the right of protesting.
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Quebec has a bit of a longer history, I think, of doing that, at least in the media.
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But for the most part, protesting seemed to be either an anomaly or something that scared
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When people see pictures of protests on the media, what do they see?
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They see cut and paste of videos and pictures from all over the world of people throwing
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bricks and rocks and all kinds of gas bombs and everything else.
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And people get the impression that that's what happens at rallies and protests, that that
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And far from it, especially here in Canada, where virtually all protests that have taken
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The RCMP here in British Columbia and in Kelowna have repetitively announced that they are happy
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And as a result, that is kind of an admission as well, that with the protests being peaceful,
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there's virtually nothing they can do to stop them.
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And I suppose that is the starting point that I wanted to mention tonight, is the absolute
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freedom that everybody has in Canada to protest, especially against your governments and what
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they're doing, which is unlawful and unconstitutional.
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It's morally and religiously wrong and ethically wrong.
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And it's wrong in virtually every way you can look at it.
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And as a result, the majority of, I shouldn't say the majority, but a lot of people in Canada
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have taken to the streets over the last two and a half years.
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And in Vancouver, I think there was 10,000 to 15,000 people and a lot more in various other
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areas across Canada that were exercising their right to protest.
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And it's a really critically important right that hopefully more people will participate
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One of the things we also participated in here was protesting at our schools for a variety
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We protested on the mask issue and we were handing out flyers to some of the students here at the
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And this was shortly, shortly before BC brought in legislation, some, well, allegedly to ban
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But what they told the public and what the legislation says is entirely different.
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If you have legislation in your area of the country, in your province or municipality that
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is being used to allegedly stop you from protesting somewhere, it's critically important to read
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word for word what that says and compare that to what the government is saying.
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Because we found out here that their legislation that they promoted as saying you can't come
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within 60 feet of a school only meant you can't go within 60 feet of a school if you're doing
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one of the three specified activities, preventing people from coming in and out of the buildings
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And if you weren't doing those, then you could still peacefully be there right on the sidewalk.