Mayor condemns Extinction Rebellion actions

Valérie Plante has condemned the Extinction Rebellion action earlier this week that involved scaling the Jacques-Cartier bridge to unfurl a banner. Le Devoir notes that there was a time Plante belonged to a group that promoted nonviolent civil disobedience, but I don’t see that this fact undermines the need, as a mayor of a big city, to discourage actions that cause chaos – even if fundamentally she may agree with the protesters’ ideas.