There’s a fine line between right to protest and public safety
These are highly staged events, planned months and years in advance and little is left to chance. The leaders’ conference is held in a bubble anyway, minimizing any likely effect on the mindset of those leaders. There are many more opportunities to effect change.
OTTAWA—It would be hard to forget the G8/G20 riots in Toronto in 2010; or similar mass violence at the WTO meetings in Seattle in 1999. Commercial properties were smashed and vandalized. Police cars were destroyed. Hundreds were arrested. People were kept in cages by the authorities. It was n...
