Who said anything about the US government? Left wing protestors get plenty of leeway in Canada but right wing protestors get branded terrorists for being loud. Oh but it "wasn't done lightly", whatever that's meant to mean, so obviously it's kosher.

To what "leftist' protests are you referring, exactly?

Posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are, so please don't do it on HN.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

The other commenter was breaking the site guidelines too, but in a different way, and I've responded to them also.

Perhaps the emergency act should have been invoked against the police.