That was one of the silver linings of the Standing Rock DAPL protest. Authorities in Canada and the US don't want things to get out of control again. Folks apparently did not learn that lesson the first time around in Baltimore (".. give them room to destroy...").
From the linked article:
Two protesters arrested at a Burnaby site of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project have received the first jail terms imposed for defying a court injunction ordering opponents to not disrupt construction work.
Laurie Embree, age 70, who was arrested on June 19, and Constance Lasheras, who was arrested on June 30, were each handed seven-day jail sentences after pleading guilty to criminal contempt of court in B.C. Supreme Court.Read my lips.
Before the sentences on Tuesday, the 86 protesters who had either pleaded guilty or were found guilty following a trial had been sentenced to either fines or community work service.
The first protesters were arrested in March, after the injunction was imposed on March 15. But the large-scale civil disobedience continued, and Crown counsel warned they would seek a seven-day jail sentence for anyone arrested after May 28.
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