While sentencing a man for blocking roads in Metro Vancouver, a B.C. provincial court judge had some choice words for the environmental protest groups that encouraged him to do it.
In her reasons for sentencing Ian Wiltow Schortinghuis, which were given on June 30 but only recently, judge Laura Bakan described the offender as an "unsophisticated person" who had been taken advantage of by Save Old Growth.
The group's actions have angered motorists and led to confrontations, and Bakan said in her decision that she finds it "extremely fortunate" that they have not escalated into violence. The first, on April 4, obstructed traffic on the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, which connects Vancouver and North Vancouver.The third happened on June 13 and blocked the entrance to the Massey Tunnel in Richmond.
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