Meanwhile, some critics have said the Canadian government's move to use financial powers to quell the trucker protests amounts to unnecessary overreach.

In Canada, when truckers were protesting vaccine mandates, DeSantis noted, the government froze bank accounts, including that of charities trying to help the truckers. “So we’ve already seen government really overstep its bounds as it is.”

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David Lametti Liberal MP David Lametti was the justice minister and attorney general when hundreds of truckers protesting the vaccine mandate descended on Ottawa in late January 2022.

Crowdfunding website GoFundMe is under fire after it canceled a fundraising campaign for the trucker protest of the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

-based truckers could stage protests in parts of the country similar to the ones that have gripped parts of Canada.

An Innovative Research Group poll published on Jan. 31 found that 31 percent of Canadians support the trucker protest, with 46 percent opposed.

Finally, in our second America Q&A, we ask for reactions on how the Canadian government handled the truckers’ protest.

Chris Barber, one of the lead organizers of the trucker protest, told The Epoch Times that the judge's ruling was "amazing news" on the two-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy's arrival in Ottawa.

“We will not allow for unsafe or unlawful conditions that could lead to another unlawful protest as seen in February,” the OPS said in an April 25 statement, referencing the Freedom Convoy trucker protest.

Global News published a report on Jan. 25 with the headline, “Far-right groups hope trucker protest will be Canada’s ‘January 6th.’”

"Trucker protest may warrant military intervention," a recent headline reads.

The Freedom Convoy, as it was called by organizers, was a series of protests and blockades staged by truckers over COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in 2022.

The U.S. trucker protest was inspired by a Canadian movement known as the Freedom Convoy, which protested for weeks in Ottawa, Canada's capital city, against COVID-19 mandates.

The federal government proceeded to declare a state of emergency that day, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau depicting the truckers’ protest as “illegal and dangerous” at a related press conference.

Truckers and supporters depart on a cross-country convoy destined for Ottawa to protest a federal vaccine mandate for truckers in Delta, B.C., on Jan. 23, 2022.

Freeland announced the measures at a press conference, shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a state of emergency due to the ongoing protests against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions by truckers and their supporters.

Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) said she is introducing a bill that would grant temporary asylum to individuals involved in the Canadian trucker protests.

Commentary  The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Freedom Convoy trucker protest began as a demonstration against the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate requiring all cross-border truck drivers to be fully vaccinated or face a 14-day quarantine upon returning to the country.

“I was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing,” the Canadian actress wrote on Instagram, referring to a large trucker protest against

A vehicle convoy has blocked a major Canada–U.S. border crossing in Manitoba as demonstrators protest in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy truckers in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.

During his speech in Calgary, Malone noted the “power of civil protest” and referenced the truckers’ convoy in 2022, saying it “got the attention of the entire world.”

Following the GoFundMe announcements, protest convoy organizers set up the "Freedom Convoy 2022" fundraiser on GiveSendGo. Several U.S. Republicans subsequently raised concerns about GoFundMe’s removal of the funds for the trucker protest.

Barber, two of the most well-known organizers of the trucker convoy protest that took place from late January to mid-February 2022, are charged with counselling to disobey a court order, counselling to obstruct police, and mischief that interferes with

To understand Canada’s current situation, let’s start by discussing the trucker protests that occurred earlier this year.

He said that as truckers move to support the Canadian trucker protests, "America is next."

Some U.S. truckers showed up at a bridge on the U.S.-Canada border on Saturday to support the Canadian truckers protesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Ottawa police say the woman who stood on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the first day of the trucker protest is not associated with the Freedom Convoy truckers. Police say she is unlikely to re-offend and won't be charged.

On the other side of the country, protesting truckers have had a blockade in place at the border crossing in Coutts, Alta., since Jan. 29.