Fishermen left shoeless

Canada's enforcement of laws against over fishing of eels was carried out in a way that endangered the lives of accused illegal fishers.

Over fishing leads to extinction. Around the world, treaties are cited as an excuse to continue over fishing, but no treaty can justify causing extinction. Where the world has the benefit of real enforcement against over fishing, it should enforce them against everyone, regardless of per ethnicity.

However, thugs must protect the lives of those they arrest. The thugs should have brought those men to a place where they could stay indoors and be safe without shoes. A police station would have sufficed.

Confiscating people's shoes outdoors in a cold region can result in maiming or even death, so it should be prosecuted as attempted murder. Countries should enforce this against everyone, including uniformed thugs. Likewise against the person on duty at the gas station, who threatened their lives by making them walk into the cold.

Every gas station should be required to make its phone available for people to call for help. This should be a legal requirement. However, things should not have reached that point. The thugs presumably had a phone, or a radio. They also had a responsibility to make this call.