Most groups who protest, certainly in Vancouver and Victoria, come to the police. We have meetings ahead of time. We set boundaries and guidelines. The huge majority of them are peaceful.
This would simply send a message. We would do proactive marketing, if and when this legislation is passed, to explain to people that these are the rules by which we allow protests. We adopt, as most departments do now, an “adopt a protester” method. When protestors show up and mask up, we assign an officer to walk with them—so they're side by side—until they can gather the impunity of a larger crowd, and that helps. We would simply use this kind of a tool to proactively market and advertise the fact that what they're about to think about is unlawful.