[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Just a guy

Which called for defunding the police? Again, not taking sides because that only serves to divide. Just pointing out hypocrisy.

Do you honestly think these two positions are equivalent?

1) We demand the overthrow of a sitting government because we oppose measures that are supported by a majority of Canadians, and backed up by real science

2) We think Police are deployed in too many situations they are not properly trained for, which is resulting in too many preventable deaths, and would like to see funds diverted to alternative methods of addressing societal issues such as trained mental health and crisis support professionals to attend to non criminal behavior by people who are having drug/mental health issues.

Hell, even if "Defund the police" meant what you think it means, do you think #1 is equivalent to:

2a) Spend less on a specific government service that we think is abusing it's power, resulting in too many innocent deaths.