Do Canadian cops treat white pandemic protestors differently than protests involving minorities?.Attorney General David Lametti asked the same when he questioned the biases of police by comparing aggression levels towards Black Lives Matter demonstrators and vaccine mandates protestors..According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Lametti wrote COVID-19 protestors were “mostly white,” with one CBC commentary as the only evidence presented..“Media reports indicate police responses to people protesting COVID-19 measures and policies have been much less aggressive than for other protest events led by indigenous and black protesters,” Lametti wrote in a letter to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee..“We have a duty to listen. We have seen and heard from racialized Canadians,”.Lametti testified at the committee December 10..Parliament passed Bill C-3 An Act To Amend The Criminal Code on December 17, 2021..The new bill created a maximum 10-year penalty for anyone who’s found to “intentionally obstruct or interfere with another person’s lawful access” to a hospital or clinic..The CBC commentary by Angela Sterritt made complaints of the “hands off treatment” by police at mandatory vaccination protests..“Last week crowds swept cities across British Columbia with mostly white protesters blocking roads to health care facilities, verbally accusing health care workers and assaulting a hospital employee,” said the commentary..“Police presence was minimal and one person was arrested. Days later, protesters with alleged ties to white supremacist circles yelled and pelted gravel at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.”.An associate professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University speculated and said he believes if mandatory vaccination protestors were indigenous or black, police would have intervened with force and arrests..“I just wish it was more obvious for people to understand that type of privilege and that type of white supremacy that Canada shows every day.” said an indigenous environmentalist in the commentary..Legislators noted the Criminal Code already banned acts of intimidation and unlawful assembly, but passing Bill C-3 increased the criminal seriousness of these acts..Ewa Sudyk is a reporter with the Western Standard..,.esudyk@westernstandardonline.com
