The G20 Summit Protest In Canada

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The G20 Summit’s that have taken place all over the world and each stop along the way has yielded some form of protest. The one that hits closest to home for Canadians is the G20 Summit that took place in Toronto, Ontario, on June 26-27, 2010. Protests were bound to happen in Toronto and the government believed they were prepared, police did what they felt was necessary, and the public has their own opinion of what went on during those summer days in 2010. People on each side of this conflict were going to be unhappy regardless of the outcome, and just like death and taxes, that was a guarantee. The G20 Summit’s that took place in Toronto were doomed right from the get go. According to a Maclean’s article from 2010, the Canadian Government spent upwards of $900 …show more content…

These summits know that they are causing peaceful protests, but they also know they are causing violent protests and I believe they want both types to happen. The location of the summit and the date of the summit would not be released otherwise. If they wanted to have a quiet gathering with no issues and they still wanted to release this information, they would have the summits in a remote location, for example, Flin Flon, Manitoba, in February. I highly doubt there would be a whole lot of protesting, if this were the case. The violence in Seattle and London, was also mentioned in the Maclean’s article titled The Fallout from Toronto’s G20 Protests, you would think people would learn their lesson, but no they let that fall on the shoulders of the Toronto Police to take care of. Toronto Police were given the impossible task of keeping things calm during the G20 Summit, in the summer of 2010. Police arrested over 900 people by the end of the weekend (Maclean’s, 2010) and some claim to have had their Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms violated. Toronto Police “kettled” (Canadian Press, 2017), many people in the downtown

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