Canadian police were yesterday making possibly the final push to clear the capital city of demonstrators who have paralyzed it by parking and camping on the streets for more than three weeks to protest against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
Police have made 170 arrests and towed 53 vehicles since they began efforts to bust up the protest on Friday morning that required Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke rarely used emergency powers.
On Saturday, police used pepper spray and stun grenades to move out the die-hard protesters who have remained, clearing most of the area in front of parliament and next to
US President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to use its federal powers to end a truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, as the demonstration forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production.
For the fourth straight day, scores of truckers taking part in what they dubbed the Freedom Convoy blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products between the two countries.
The White House said that US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and
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Canadians say they are concerned that political strife in the US will undermine security and economic growth at home, a poll has found, as the capital and southern border have been gripped by truckers demonstrating against a vaccine mandate, a protest praised by former US president Donald Trump.
The anxiety captured in the Angus Reid Institute (ARI) survey provides a backdrop to protests across the country, at its border with the US and especially in Ottawa, the capital, where police say that Americans have provided a “significant” amount of money and organizational support.
The Ottawa protest, which is in its 13th day,
Ottawa police and city lawyers are discussing applying for a court injunction as means of ending the ongoing trucker convoy protest, with Ottawa Police Service Chief Peter Sloly saying Wednesday that the situation is intolerable and unprecedented.