Natural Gas Pipeline Protest at the Provincial Legislature, to support the Wetsuweten First Nation Indigenous people in February 2020 (Image credit: Dreamstime).

By Doug Collins

ONE MAN'S OPINION

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SEVERAL COMMUNITIES, including our nation’s capital, are investigating the idea of a “bubble bylaw.”

This is the latest scheme to prevent protestors from disrupting high profile events at high profile sites. Sites like Parliament Hill, the B.C. Legislature, the Empress Hotel – any place where protestors can gather and get the photo ops they need to promote their cause.

In the past, some of these protests have turned confrontational. A bubble, as I understand it, puts limits on how close a protest can be to its target. Will pushing the event into possible residential areas be the answer?

Personally, I see this bylaw as about as effective as the laws preventing drug use in public, or laws against graffiti. Nice on paper, but very, very hard to carry out.

Short of putting an actual bubble over a site, I don’t see a whole lot of value in this idea. But sometimes, with a little tweaking, these seemingly crazy ideas suddenly have merit.

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Maybe this is one of those ideas.

I’m Doug Collins and that’s One Man’s Opinion.

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Editor’s Note: This opinion piece reflects the views of its author, and does not necessarily represent the views of CFJC Today or Pattison Media.