The incident took place around 10 a.m. Thursday. In a statement, the museum said security staff followed procedures to “ensure the safety of visitors,” and called police, who took the activist into custody.
The mischief is the latest demonstration by Last Generation Canada, previously known as On2Ottawa, a civil disobedience group that formed in 2023. The group says its actions are intended to draw attention to the climate crisis and to demand Canadian government action.
The activists said Thursday they chose a dinosaur skeleton to highlight the risk of mass extinction prompted by the climate crisis.
This line of logic is going to be applied to literally any target of this kind of protest.
Uh, no. When they did some private jets the reaction was overall positive. There are plenty of legitimate targets for this sort of protest. Scientific exhibits or works of art don’t fall under that category. These people are either mentally unstable attention seekers or actually have nefarious intentions.