Freedom Convoy The Freedom Convoy trucker-led protest arrived in Ottawa on Jan. 28 and settled downtown.

A confrontation between truckers protesting Canadian covid mandates and the government in Ottawa has turned ugly. The debate over covid mandates has turned toward authoritarian tactics rather than the merits of the mandates.

The police and the truckers are in a file, and they are exchanging hugs, dammit. Hugs!!! The forces of order, the police, and the protesters, Canadian citizens, are in genuine, physical embrace. They shake hands. There are smiles.

Benjamin Dichter, one of the protest coordinators, says his credit cards and personal and corporate bank accounts, alongside many other trucker protesters' accounts, have been frozen.

Regarding the trucker-led protest in Ottawa, Di Tomasso qualified it as a “significant inconvenience” that did not present an “overriding public safety risk,” according to the interview summary.

Writing in Britain’s The Telegraph, David Collins labelled the bill Trudeau’s “most tyrannical attack on freedom yet” being “brought to you by the same farcically-named 'Liberal' party who froze the bank accounts of the truckers who protested vaccine-mandates

Terry Callaghan, a former trucker, said he joined the protest because he believes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been undermined.

"The trucker convoy exposed the government's willingness to invoke extraordinary powers to suppress a nationwide protest that was remarkably peaceful," he added.

So far, with everyone distracted by the truckers’ protests, there isn’t a lot of light being shone on this remarkably intimidating legislation, so expect Rodriguez to plow ahead and open the door to regulation of social media posts and podcasts (to the

The third case occurred in February, when Canadian banks data-mined the private accounts of truckers protesting pandemic regulations, as well as those who had donated in support of protesters via crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe and GiveSendGo.

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Truckers and protesters had started arriving in Ottawa on Jan. 28 and were cleared after the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14.

The protest began as a truckers' initiative, dubbed "Freedom Convoy," that was opposed to the federal government’s vaccine mandate requiring cross-border truck drivers re-entering Canada from the United States to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or

He says he stands with the truckers who staged the protest and with Canadians who he says are fighting to reclaim their freedom.

The protest would have dissolved overnight, and the truckers would have driven home.

A similar action took place on Jan. 17 when a convoy of truckers protested against the mandates in Emerson, Manitoba, near the U.S.-Canada border. U.S. truckers began to organize their own resistance on Tuesday.

Just ahead of the trucker protest arriving in Ottawa on Jan. 29, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau berated the protesters for their opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich faced cross-examination at the inquiry into the Emergencies Act on Friday and she pushed back on assertions brought by lawyers opposed to last winter’s trucker-led protest.

Following the imposition—in my judgment without justification and certainly without publicly exhibited justification—of the Emergencies Act, the authorities in Canada swept down on the trucker protest in Ottawa with speed and force.

The crowdfunding company GiveSendGo still has some of the money people donated to the Canadian trucker convoy protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the company said on Feb. 18.

The Rolling Thunder event follows the weeks-long trucker convoy protest in February that called for the removal of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. Annie Wu, Isaac Teo, Noé Chartier, and The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

Witness the obscene attack on the trucker protesters in Canada a year ago. (I have to add this nowadays: By the “rights of Englishmen,” of course, I mean the rights of any resident of those countries, of any background, and of men and women.

The wall is to keep out truckers who are heading to Washington, D.C., as part of the Freedom Convoy protesting COVID restrictions.

Those who failed to do so would have been hounded by the media—as many did with gusto during the truckers' convoy protest—to explain their hesitance.

Brown shared a video on Twitter on May 15 of Pat King, one of the protesters who went to Ottawa during the trucker convoy, in which King talks about a plan to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.”

I read, on the contrary, a column by a Toronto Star writer who placed the truckers’ protest in a triptych of “greatest threats to democracy.” The other two were the crisis in Ukraine, and Donald Trump’s delusional claims about election theft.

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https://twitter.com/PremierScottMoe/status/1488214182352670721 Trudeau had dismissed truckers taking part in current protests in Ottawa and others who have stepped forward to protest against various COVID-19 restrictions and mandates as a "fringe minority

During the truckers' Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, a faction of the protesters felt the Governor General could or should dissolve Parliament. Petitions were filled and letters and calls flooded Rideau Hall, but it was a waste of time.

People gather in El Monte, Calif., to show support for truckers partaking in a convoy from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C in protest of coronavirus mandates on Feb. 25, 2022.