Thousands of roads gathered on Saturday in front of Parliament in Ottawa, around trucks, to manifest their opposition to the anti-Covid measures of the Justin Trudeau government.
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The Parliamentary Hill of Ottawa, at the top of which throne the imposing neogothic building housing the House of Commons, was, on Saturday, January 29, the theater of a major demonstration of force on the part of all that the Country account of anti-vaccins and opponents of health measures taken since the beginning of the health crisis.
Thousands of truckers had chosen to converge towards the Canadian capital to denounce Ottawa’s immunization obligation since January 15, to all carriers returning to Canada after passing the US border. An obligation also valid American side. Self-proclaimed “convoy of freedom”, the most important procession left six days earlier from British Columbia.
A western crossing is 4,300 km long and enameled with support gatherings. The same observed on Highway 50 connecting Montreal to Ottawa. At each bridge, each viaduct, a few dozen citizens have massaged to greet their passage. A sister in Cornette brandished a sign bearing the inscription: “May God bless the truckers, freedom!” “You fight for our freedom,” congratulated them another supporter.
Under a radiant sun but in a polar cold of – 30 0 Celsius, the crowd massaged on Saturday at the foot of the parliamentary hill, around trucking trucks and twisted, asked unrelated this same slogan of “freedom!”, interspersed with insults against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Heteroclite Coalition
Under the “Kim Jong Trudeau” slogan, glued to his hockey lacrosse, John, 40, non-vaccinated from Shawinigan, Quebec, will be upgraded in the middle of a horn concert. “One can no longer have their damages, which they let us live normally.” Some “Make Canada Great Again” banners, Confederate American flags, emblems of white supremacists, and even a swasting cross float at the foot of Parliament .
Behind this protest movement, the first of this magnitude in Canada since the beginning of the pandemic, a heterogeneous coalition is emerging. The popular support it has benefited from the RAS-le-Bol of part of the population with respect to the sanitary constraints imposed for twenty-two months. Social networks are largely echoed, with Facebook groups like “Convoy to Ottawa 2022” or “Freedomconvoy” with several hundred thousand members.
But the initiators of the convoy, grouped in Canada Unity, belong to the country’s ultra-round political movement. One of them is the Alberta activist Patrick King, Co-founder of the WEXIT Movement Canada (become the Maverick Party), a political organization militant for the independence of the provinces of West vis-à-vis Canada. A far-right activist already involved in the Yellow Vest Canada movement (“Yellow Vests” of Canada). In January 2019, he had organized public meetings to denounce the Canadian carbon tax and the Global Pact for United Nations migration, defending the thesis of the “big replacement” and “whites”.
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