Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

Re:Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, mun... by redanddead on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:05AM (#49817278)

Yup. It’s symptomatic of poor governance. Government services not working as good as they should and of course people are pissed. To be frank, the government employees are divas and aren’t effective.

You will find the same behavior across so many different government services — a culture of not taking charge, or like committee thinking. Nothing gets done.

There’s a reason people are pissed.

Idk what the solution is, my brain goes to automated government services, maybe something like Singapore

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Re:Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, mun... by cucumber3732842 on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:17AM (#49817454)

I don't think it's even that the service that is delivered is unsatisfactory. I think it's that what the government is engaged in actively runs counter to what the people broadly want.

Like when people say we need better sanitation, there's too many tent cities, this needs to be fixed, etc, etc, and the city goes and hires a bunch of employees who then get to work fining residents for trash bin violations no shit they get heckled even if they solve some token amount of the core problem (invariably just enough to let the liars in the comments go to bat for them without the lies being obvious). And you see this kind of thing on damn near every axis of government enforcement and social services these days.

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Re:Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, mun... by redanddead on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:36AM (#49817727)

Agreed. It’s so not-Montreal

The city and its people are way cooler than this

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