Freedom Convoy

What to know what’s wrong with policing? Compare the treatment of Indigenous land protectors to the trucker convoy response.

By Olivia Visser, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of police brutality and anti-Indigenous violence Police shouldn’t take public stances on political issues, yet they do on a regular basis. Beyond displaying on-duty support for controversial symbols like the thin blue line, officers showcase their beliefs in the way they police different groups of people. The overwhelming disparity between their treatment of Trans Mountain Pipeline protesters and Freedom Convoy participants underlines a broader systemic problem with Canada’s policing. In 2016, the Trudeau government approved the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) expansion, backtracking on its campaign promise to protect the environment and…

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