There was no "peaceful" presentation of grievance. There was weeks of civil disobedience and actual acts of violence.
The twisted part, again, is the ideologically biased game you're playing.
Reminder that blocked traffic and hurt feelings are not violence, otherwise we'd need to classify every climate action as unbearably and irrevocably violent.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.6400768
even on the anniversary:
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/officers-issued-multiple-violation...
How about two seconds of googling? Or are you afraid of having your world view threatened?
>https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.6400768 Obstruction/assault of police officer. IE, altercation with police. Expected at a protest.
>https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/officers-issued-multiple-violation... One man charged with assault. You finally found one, congratulations. No details whether it was protest related, or just happened to be in the area. Could have been a provocation. Which would also be expected at a large protest.
None of these articles paint a picture of untoward violence any worse than what goes on at a normal pop/rock concert.
But I suppose pearl clutchers are gonna clutch (and not read their own articles).
Will you press charges and expect the police to respond?
Also when your wife leaves the house, someone (not me) will follow her and harass her for wearing a mask.
Then an ambulance will come by to pick up your elderly relative and someone will make sure my truck is in front of it, stopping it from getting to the hospital, because the hospital is a place that poisons people with COVID jabs.
This is all ok and peaceful behaviour, to you? Right?
Tell me how you feel about the January 6th event, while you're at it. How about the Munich Beer Hall Putsch?
Partisans love to play this game, where they judge a large group of people by the worst possible interpretation of the actions of a tiny subset of them.
For a protest which some estimates say peaked at ~18,000, this was the resulting set of "violent" charges:
"12 charges of assaulting a peace officer; six charges of assault; three charges of assault or intimidation with a weapon; five charges of possessing a weapon dangerous to public peace; two charges of carrying a concealed weapon; one charge of possessing a restricted firearm; and four charges of uttering threats of death or bodily harm." [0]
Obviously this is not acceptable, but the idea that the protesters as a group were "authoritarians" because 0.01% of them got violent is hysterical nonsense.
(Also... Partisan hardly describes me. I've never voted Liberal in my life and have been opposed to this PM since day one. Ask any of my annoyed coworkers and friends.)
i.e. Not constitutionally responsible to the people.
Words have meaning, as do actions, sir, and you're choose to ignore both because of your partisan blind spots.