Increasingly diverse makeup of Canadian resource protests: is violence around the corner?

Federal and provincial authorities, and, yes, this includes law enforcement and security intelligence agencies folks, have to prepare for the worst, while all the time hoping for the best.

Ottawa Police officers, pictured in Ottawa on Feb. 24, 2020, watching demonstrators who took to the streets to support the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs who are opposed to the $6.6-billion Coastal Gasoline pipeline through their traditional territory.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

March 2, 2020

OTTAWA—We all recognize the right to express dissent: so what do we do when groups espousing violence jump on the bandwagon? Looking briefly at the headlines of not just The Hill Times, but just about every other newspaper these days it is not hard to see that stories on the current wa...

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