Opponents of health restrictions against the CVIV-19 and extreme right activists, gathered in a “convoy of freedom”, always block the federal capital.
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Peaceful Federal Capital of Canada, Ottawa has turned into a few days into a global epicenter of the protest, for all opponents of the health measures taken by the global governments against the Pandemic of Covid-19. After converging towards the city center, on January 29, the “Convoy of Freedom”, the name of the movement of Canadian truckers opposed to the vaccine obligation now imposed to cross the Canada-US border, always kept Tuesday, February 8, the capital in state of siege. Eleven long days during which 350 to 500 trucks have completely paralyzed the neuralgic heart of the city. Never-seen in Canada.
On the deafening sound background of their horn, drivers scheme tirelessly the same slogan, “freedom!”, to claim their opposition to sanitary restrictions. But their banners and signs affixed to their multicolored and gleaming monsters more clearly explain their political purpose: “Canada = communist dictatorship”, “make Canada Great Again” or “Trudeau Resignation”, with the effigy of the Prime Minister Griming of the Mustache Hitler.
Slogans enthusiastically returned by a few thousand protesters who came to support, and who warmly applauded, Saturday, to the passage of two paradant riders in the middle of the trucks with the banner “Trump 2024, Save America”.
The same evening, during a public rally in conroe, in Texas, the former US President Donald Trump has made it possible to repeat all his admiration to Canadian truckers “who do more to defend American freedom than Our own leaders, “he launched, qualifying to the passage Justin Trudeau of” Fal-left mad “.
Fuel reserves
parked for nearly two kilometers, along Wellington Street, the political and economic center of the country, with the buildings housing the House of Commons, the offices of the Prime Minister but also the Bank of Canada, the truckers are also Disseminated on several nervical points of the city making any circulation impossible. With wooden barracks built in recent days in parks to store fuel reserves and offer food refueling, “Truckers” have demonstrated their determination to hold the keypad.
Face with the growing discontent of the local population – a class action was launched to claim millions of dollars for damages for nuisances suffered – and the risks of slippage, police and policies of the capital, so far remained very discreet , ended up reacting. Sunday, the Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, decreed “the state of emergency” in his city. The next day he demanded at the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the Ontario Prime Minister, 1,800 additional police officers “to suppress the insurrection that the police are unable to contain,” he recognized.
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