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Originally Posted by Agent86
Does this protest really impaect peoples lives in any way shape or form? I think that it is a trivial protest and that the issues in the United States don't exist for the most part here in Canada - particularly in Alberta. At the same time if someone wants to camp out in order to protest something - and it isn't really harming anyone, who cares? How many people have had their daily life impacted at all? I would bet the number would be very close to zero and those whose life is impacted, I would imagine that it would be inconsequential.
Protesting the protestors and the petitions seem more like some more people with too much time on their hands.
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To me it's two fold,
1) they don't seem to be protesting anything in particular, or at least they haven't articulated it well. Protesting for the sake of protesting it seems. Today it's tax cuts for the rich, tomorrow it's the oil sands, day after it's free transit for everyone.
2) I worry about the next group who comes along and decides their setting their soapbox up in the middle of traffic, or a train station and hiding behind the charter to do so.
By allowing them to stay we're basically saying "you're freedom of speech is more important than anything else, even if you don't have anything to say. As such you are exempt from the law"
Yes I'm using a strawman argument about a slippery slope, but what happens to the next guy who decides he's camping out in the middle of a busy intersection and playing his bag pipes until he get's his unicorn dipped in chocolate?
So no, at the end of the day a dozen or so campers isn't causing much harm, but I find it hard to support a group that would throw the homeless under the bus for their "cause" when it seems to change day to day and has no definable goal.