Today, instead of focusing on what was essential prior to Putin’s aggression, Biden was spending his time supporting virtue signaling exercises and Justin Trudeau was invoking martial law against protesting truckers. Truckers, no less!

Protests erupted across the nation and the truckers' Freedom Convoy made Canadian history as a government in panic invoked the Emergencies Act in response to the demonstration.

The Freedom Convoy was a trucker-led movement that started in mid-January when the federal government imposed a vaccine mandate on truckers crossing the U.S. border.

Epoch Times reporters in Ottawa have observed protest participants of all ethnic backgrounds and faiths expressing support for the truckers, as have hundreds of videos of supporters posted online.

a protest against the diesel price increase in Cali, Colombia, on Sept. 5, 2024.

Citizens had the right to protest but not gridlock the capital, he said. The Canadian demonstrations united truckers angered by a vaccine mandate for trans-border traffic.

Law Sparks Protests Owner-operators protesting AB 5 at the Port of Oakland managed to shut down operations for a week in July, prompting the city to file a suit against the truckers.

Hundreds of people gather by TransCanada Highway 20 to show their support to truckers heading to Ottawa to protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Levis, Quebec, on Jan. 28, 2022.

The Freedom Convoy first began as a movement of truckers who created convoys from different parts of Canada to drive to Ottawa and demand the federal government remove its requirement for truck drivers crossing the U.S.

(Richard Moore/The Epoch Times) There was plenty of support for the truckers and their aims in downtown Ottawa on Feb. 11, 2022.

The Canadian federal government has declared a state of emergency due to the ongoing protests against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions by truckers and their supporters.

The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe says the fundraiser for the truck drivers who are to heading to Ottawa protest the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers is still accepting donations, it's just that funds are temporarily on hold pending a review

Truckers returning West from the convoy protest in Ottawa joined to participate, which she says was not “coincidence” but “synchronicity.”

(The Epoch Times) Farmers, truckers, and others across the Netherlands have led nationwide protests against that vision, partly spurred by a June 10 national and area-specific plan to curtail nitrogen greenhouse gas emissions.

When Canadian truckers formed a convoy to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and stopped trucking for their country, it showed what truckers do for the nation, Hudak said. “Without us, everybody would be naked, hungry, without fuel.

He also posted a sniper training video about shooting truckers to cripple the American food supply and led a counter protest against the murder of George Floyd.

A couple of flags were seen bearing the Nazi swastika early on in the protest in Ottawa, which the Liberals and NDP have cited when linking the trucker movement to racism and extremism.

Dubbed the “Freedom Convoy,” trucks began arriving in Ottawa on Jan. 28 and 29 to stage a protest against federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for truckers travelling between Canada and the United States.

The federal government unleashed the Emergencies Act on the truckers and their supporters in February 2022. Jackboots in riot gear took down peaceful protesters for objecting to government policy.

Their purpose is to bring patriotism and awareness, and to get like-minded people together and unite for the truckers, Walker said. “This is a peaceful protest,” Walker stressed.

against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions by truckers and their supporters in Ottawa and across the country.

Both the men were part of bringing in money raised for the convoy, which was advertised as intended to be distributed to truckers to help pay for food, fuel, and lodging during the protest.

This was a few days after the federal government and the U.S. imposed a vaccine mandate on truckers at the border and before the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa to protest the measure. “Enough. Enough COVID mandates.

Additionally, the Emergencies Act allows the Canadian government to do such things as conduct forced dispersals of COVID-19 protests and freeze the bank accounts of both the truckers and those who supported their cause.

On Feb. 12, Lich exchanged letters with then-Mayor Jim Watson, discussing an agreement that would see the truckers move their vehicles away from residential streets.

Trudeau froze protesters’ bank accounts, prohibited public assembly, forced truckers and other workers to provide services, exercised government’s power to take control of property and movement, and broadly increased police powers to force citizens to

Vigneault told them his organization was not seeing truckers in the United States organizing to join the protest. “There is not a lot [of] energy and support from the USA to Canada,” he said. “It is primarily a domestic issue.”

A trucker who was arrested for his role in the Freedom Convoy has been acquitted of all charges. Harold Jonker was a road captain during the 2022 protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa, and stayed in the city for three weeks.

The commission also says that all of the donations made through e-transfer to the Freedom Convoy or the Adopt-A-Trucker fundraiser originated in Canada.

The data for this study was all gathered in 2021, long before the further deepening of divisions picked up in polls after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s taunting of unvaccinated truckers led to a poorly managed Ottawa protest, a panicked invocation of