You also forget that the government of Canada invoked an act intended to be used in the most extreme circumstances when normal political, democratic processes were obviously impossible to follow. In addition they have induced GoFundMe and the banks to interfere with the privately held accounts of individuals and publically raised funds.

All this after weeks of doing little to nothing and apparently not negotiating with the protestors.

This would all be understandable, but questionable, in a war situation. It is very disturbing, to say the least, to see the sledgehammer of this act being used to crack the relatively small nut of a noisy, inconvenient petition for redress of wrongs by people who seem to still accept that they are citizens of a democratic state.

(Also, this is all the fault of the USA. Or the Russians. )