> When next the liberals want to protest something - an oil pipeline for instance (economic disruption) - would that also be called violence?

Just so it's clear, there were environmental protests that _were_ cleared out for the same economic disruption reasons. There were concerns that it was not the right thing to do and too aggressive at the time, but I believe in retrospect that many consider it to have been the right course of action.

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