Trump wasn't the president of Canada, was he?

No, he's the USA president.

There was talk about the Insurrection Act. Ties to the Civil War probably made them a little weak in the knees.

Okay? There was talk about a law in the US that didn't get exercised. Facts and weasel words acknowledged. So what? I really don't understand why people insist on re-litigating the BLM riots, focused on what the American government did or did not do. This is a story about protests going down in Canada, and how the Canadian government is responding to them. The only connection is the huge infusion of American money into this Canadian protest, but instead, folks are doing whataboutism donuts on BLM's lawn. It doesn't apply here. Why are people doing this.

Pretty hilarious how that turned out in the end.