sadly, this will probably be more effective than any protests in canada.

and, if you want to know how to get them to budge, that's it: make it an issue of canada's reputation abroad. and, this is fair game, for we are buckling to pressure from a regime of questionable integrity - in kahoots with the quasi-fascist regime in china, to destroy the planet to fuel absurdly unsustainable growth.

when it's canadians, they think they can manage it. they're wrong, but they're in a naive comfort zone that prevents them from reacting, really, at all. but, when you make it international, you set off the panic buttons.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trans-mountain-protest-california-1.4528947