They were arrested for just being there. This is absolute bullshit. In the 90s, there was a protest camp there against the Gulf War that was there 24/7. I know because I was in it sometimes, helping to cook food and do other things to keep it a place to live in.
In the 80s, there was a semi-permanent shantytown there to protest South African apartheid.
This is utter bullshit.
I remember learning about protesting as a kid and I was always really into it because it was like the ultimate freedom… if you didn’t like what your government was saying you sit on their lawn until they change haha it seemed so cool to me… but after being involved with occupy Nova Scotia, when the government started shutting down protest camps, I started noticing the government’s changing the parameters of protesting… and then once they destroyed the native protests up north that was it for protest in Canada… now if you are disrupting the population, you’re just shut down as a nuisance… protest is not disruption anymore for whatever reason