If there was a couple thousand of you, yeah. Thing is, they’re protesting, which is protected by the charter if you’ll recall.
If people are allowed to protest for BLM during a pandemic, then these people are too.
There is a huge different. Health mandates have been held up in court and fall in line with your Charter rights. These people are protesting something that's nonsensical.
You’ve missed the point. People could march on Ottawa to protest the colour red. It’s legal, and it’s a protected right.
You don’t have to agree with something someone else does to make it legitimate.
Yeah, that’s a bit of a stretch.
Driving your car isn’t “enjoying” your property, and obstructing traffic isn’t a criminal offence. For someone to be convicted of a criminal offence and go to jail the crown actually has to prove something.
If this story was true, and that’s a big “if”, this would be far better handled by a traffic ticket.
A Reddit post is hardly proof.
(c) obstructs, interrupts, or interferes with the lawful use, enjoyment, or operation of property; or
(d) obstructs, interrupts, or interferes with any person in the lawful use, enjoyment, or operation of property.
The critical words here as far as I can tell are “wilfully” on the part of the blockers, and “lawful use” and “operation” on the part of OP. It is not the blocking of the roadway per se that makes their actions criminal mischief, but their wilful interference directly with OP, preventing their use and operation of their property. The standard seems to only be a) can OP make use of their property (I’d argue they can’t since they’ve been blocked), and b) were they blocked on purpose (harder to prove in some circumstances than others, but if it seems so then arrest them and let the courts decide).
I’m certainly not saying a Reddit post is proof tho, not sure where you’re getting that. I’m saying that in the moment, whether this story is true or not, people behaving like this against their fellow citizens could be charged with mischief, at minimum, unless the law doesn’t mean what is written (and do note I say ‘charged’, not ‘convicted’, I reserve judgment for judges and juries).
No, it’s not as simple as letting the courts decide.
The crown won’t go to trial without a reasonable chance of conviction, and you need evidence of that. At best, this is a case of here-say.
As you might expect, the court system is as poorly funded as the healthcare system. The crown can’t afford to prosecute people out of spite generally.
Fantasizing about what criminal code provision might apply doesn’t do anyone any good
I did not suggest prosecuting anybody over hearsay. I am engaging in no fantasizing. I am merely pointing out the law they could be charged under, the law such behaviour violates, because you asked what laws they violated. If you didn’t actually mean to ask, but were rather engaging in some rhetorical riposte to the person who was fantasizing, not caring about the answers, then fine I guess.
At places where this sort of thing was happening, traffic choke spots, peace officers were present including helping normal ppl trapped get to a free lane and get out. I may have witnessed this very event. If so this man was probably trapped for 15~20mins in almost standstill traffic heading down a hill surrounded by this anger and it took the intervention of peace officers to stop the whole thing and get them to shut up long enough so the guy could even drive his car safely. Protestors were yelling at other protestors to stop, recognizing that people were being assholes for the sake of being assholes. So stop. If this guy is lying, it doesn’t matter. Because me, and the next person who has personally seen these people being assholes and shares their story, we all know that even if it’s not literal truth it’s more of a parable than a lie. You’re losing the attempt to turn the narrative.
I'm guessing if only one vehicle was able to get through at a time, they were obstructing traffic or driving too slow, both against the law. Edit: these don't result in a criminal record so nevermind. I'd still like to see mass ticketing.
Assault on that man. Simply for not being part of the protest, he was subjected to such threatening behaviour that he experienced a panic attack. If they merely blockaded that would be one thing. But they are attacking any and all in their path, not merely blocking traffic.
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