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Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

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  1. legitster · · focus · HN ↗
    > However, she said incidents of inappropriate behaviour have increased dramatically and are harming city employees, and making it more difficult to recruit new employees.

    > "The thousands of women and men who work every day to serve Montreal have the right to protection from their employer, which is us."

    So basically it was pushed through despite being unpopular or unfinished because they have legitimate employment problems in government right now.

    There's erosion of trust in the government, and the solution will further erode trust. Unfortunately this is not an exclusive problem to Canada right now.

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