As a country we apparently can't even deal with small groups of yahoos with lawn chairs.
How are we going to handle the inevitable confrontation when TMX reaches Burnaby? Because that is going to make the current protests look tiny in comparison.
Will the federal government have the resolve to actually see the project to completion? I'm not sure Trudeau has the fortitude to get it done, and I'm sure that future TMX protesters are feeling very emboldened by the weak response to the current protests.
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No, TMX is not going to go through.
People speak with their feet ... and their lawn chairs. Lol
I kind of like that characterization, though the "yahoos" - ie, brutes - are brutish in determination and persistence only, and thus very effective.
We've seen pretty clearly who the physical "brutes" are - CGL pipeline company and their gone-rogue RCMP attack dogs - excuse me, - 'tactical unit'.
RCMP in Burnaby TMX protests had an injunction too, but they didn't set up "exclusion zones", illegally demand identification and harass every 'protester', illegally search people and vehicles and seize necessary supplies (food, shelter items, medicines, etc), illegally prevent media from being present to film and report on RCMP actions. Because the urban protesters in Burnaby were largely non-Indigenous.
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illegal RCMP behaviour is only being conducted against Indigenous people in a remote area where the public is relatively absent and intentionally uninformed about RCMP actions.
Even so, and thanks to social media, sympathetic protests have erupted and engulfed the entire country.
So no, even if Trudeau has the "fortitude", he does not have the authority to prevent the coming Constitutionally protected protests against TMX, which will be persistent, urban and 'white-privileged'.