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Pages in category "Protests in Canada" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
At a time of rural protest in Canada from Ontario to the Prairie Provinces, the movement was a broad-based protest demanding better treatment of The Maritimes from the federal government. It was centred at Saint John, New Brunswick , where the city's business leaders politicized the economic crisis and solidified their economic and political ...
On 18 February 2012, letters patent were issued to promote the Oshawa Harbour Commission to a port authority. [8]On 16 November 2012, a project document was released about the Saguenay Port Authority intermodal container plan, [9] which will impact the village of Tadoussac, and which needed the support of Denis Lebel, MP for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and Minister of Transport from May 2011.
[39] [40] For example, Canada Unity's Ontario organizer for the convoy, Jason LaFace, said that the intent of the Canada Unity protest was to dissolve the federal government. [41] Many of the restrictions that the protesters objected to were under provincial jurisdiction.
Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada's besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an ...
International protests, primarily led by Mauritian diaspora, also occurred in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Germany, and the UK. [37] The government has suspended the parliament, and has been accused of suppressing local media and preventing independent reporting regarding the incident, drawing sharp rebuke. [38]
March 13 - Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux releases a report stating that the protests would have very little impact on economic growth, estimating that the impact would amount to a 0.01% fall in GDP, which he characterized as "a blip", and saying earlier warnings of shortages and economic downturn by corporations was "overblown".
The federal government ordered the Mi'kmaq to reduce the total number of lobster traps used, which left members of the Burnt Church First Nation with a total of 40 traps for the whole community. Some Mi'kmaq resisted that and calimed that they already have conservation methods in place to ensure the lobster stock would not be depleted off the ...