G20-related detentions biggest mass arrests in Canadian history

[CHIMO]

In the largest mass arrests in Canadian history, police arrested roughly 900 people in G20-related incidents during the weekend.

Officers made more than 900 arrests linked to the summit in the past 10 days, Jillian Van Acker, a representative of the G20 Integrated Security Unit, said Monday. However, early on Saturday morning, police said they had arrested a total of 32 people, meaning that close to 900 were arrested during the weekend alone.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association denounced the mass arrests, saying they were illegal and unconstitutional because police did not have reasonable grounds to believe that everyone they detained had committed a crime or was about to do so.

“To us, it’s abhorrent that we would be arresting more than 900 people to find maybe 50 or 100 … vandals. This makes no sense. It’s a fundamental breach of Canadian law to have done that,” said Nathalie Des Rosiers, the organization’s general counsel.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/g20-related-detentions-biggest-mass-arrests-in-canadian-history/article1621198/

Bourassa called in the Feds.

McGuinty acted for the Feds.

Looks like Miller wants a Fed job.

[Posteritatis]

1. For comparison, the October Crisis resulted in about 450 arrests

And that included wholly unrelated things, like mayors in a few cities going on power trips because of authority granted them under the at-the-time rather too vague War Measures Act.