The Alberta Provincial Employees Union is pushing back. It argues that the law violates the constitutional rights outlined in Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly. It may have a point. There’s no constitutional right to blockade a bridge, chain oneself to a piece of pipeline equipment or park a tractor on the railroad tracks. But Alberta’s law goes too far by effectively banning all forms of protesting in some locations where those rights ought to be protected.

Source: National Post July 10, 2020 09:56 UTC