How the Houston government is cynically using legislation to shut down dissent

More broadly, the government is attempting to stifle protest. As NDP Leader Claudia Chender put it:

This is what happens when you don’t engage Nova Scotians in conversation and when you try to divide and distract. This is a government who won’t publish the glyphosate spraying schedule anymore. [I reported on that here]. Again, the given reason is so that protesters won’t know where that spray is happening. Who won’t engage communities on environmental matters, who won’t proclaim environmental legislation that is passed by all parties of this house. And so it comes to a boiling point where people’s only opportunity is to protest. And now they’re taking that away too. I think people should be concerned about that.

Broader still, the omnibus bill is crammed with so many disparate pieces of legislation that it curtails the democratic process, which is why I’ve included today’s Morning File in the Examiner’s “Dismantling Democracy” series.

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