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Miranda Sellick. Amy Mek. Human Rights News North America. Search Articles Search. Want to help? Our Newsletter Sign up for our newsletter to receive relevant updates throughout the week. Full Name. The protesters were completely cleared by February 13 at approximately 8 a. There was a substantial police presence and Jersey barriers were installed to keep the three-mile long access road to the bridge open.
In the lead-up to the planned arrival in Ottawa, it was reported on January 25 that far-right and white supremacist groups were hoping for violence on Parliament Hill akin to the United States Capitol attack. One of the lead organizers of the convoy, James Bauder, has previously stated support for QAnon , endorsed conspiracy theories about the COVID pandemic and the US presidential election , and called for the arrest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for alleged treason. Didulo, a conspiracy theorist linked to QAnon who calls herself the “Queen of Canada”, [] had called in November on her 73, Telegram followers to shoot healthcare workers administering COVID vaccines.
The episode said that the protesters were not a fringe minority, but represented the mainstream of society and had international support. The montage of protesters she showed prominently displayed imagery relating to QAnon.
The Facebook page for the convoy has shared content from, and listed as an organizer, the Wexit co-founder and Yellow Vest Canada organizer Patrick “Pat” King , who has previously hosted counter-protests to anti-racism rallies, spread COVID misinformation , and spread the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Action 4 Canada, which is associated with the Canada Unity group inside the Freedom Convoy, has been called an Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ hate and conspiracy group; it hosts webpages about the dangers of political Islam , health consequences of 5G technology , and the alleged underreporting by the mainstream media of adverse reactions to the vaccine.
No More Lockdowns Canada holds anti-lockdown rallies across Ontario. Benjamin Dichter, who is listed as an organizer on the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundMe page, was a speaker at the inaugural People’s Party of Canada national convention, and has claimed political Islam has infiltrated the Conservative Party of Canada and is “rotting away at our society like syphilis”.
Convoy leader Dave Steenburg has posted material by Soldiers of Odin , a neo-Nazi vigilante group, on his Facebook page; Jason LaFace, an administrator of the Convoy Facebook page, has done the same thing. LaFace has also posted a photo of himself wearing a Soldiers of Odin jacket. Following the seizure of weapons, ammunition and body armour at the blockade in Coutts, one piece of body armour was identified to have patches signifying relation to accelerationist right-wing militia Diagolon.
Counter-protests in favour of public health measures were held throughout the convoy’s duration. In Ottawa, with protestors in the parliament area spilling into residential neighbourhoods, lawsuits and injunction requests were filed by residents. Counter-protests were held in several cities on February 5.
Counter-protestors forced a convoy of vehicles to split up in Vancouver. Some people gathered in front of Ottawa City Hall to demand the end of disruptions caused by trucks downtown. People held pro-vaccination signs in Whitehorse while anti-mandate protestors passed them in vehicles.
A counter-protest organized by health care workers was planned in Toronto for February 12, but was called off when the provincial government instituted a state of emergency. In counter-protests on February 12, thousands of people joined the “Community Solidarity March” through Ottawa to demand the end of the protests. The original group of 20 grew to more than 1, people and successfully kettled the eastern artery of the “Blue Collar Convoy” for eight hours and were joined by groups in other neighbourhoods.
The protestors’ Zello push-to-talk -style voice channels were the subject of coordinated disruption from counter-protestors, including users playing the homoerotic country rock song ” Ram Ranch ” to ” troll ” participants and listeners an effort coordinated under the hashtag ” RamRanchResistance”.
Ottawa Police Service faced criticism for how it responded to the convoy during the first three weeks, culminating with the resignation of Chief Peter Sloly. The letter further warned MPs not to get involved in any demonstrations, to “go somewhere safe”, and to keep all doors locked. On January 29, the first day of protest at Parliament Hill , Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “moved to an undisclosed location due to security concerns”.
An article in The New York Times described the Ottawa Police Service as “vastly outnumbered”, and “unprepared for the sophisticated tactics, discipline and logistical abilities of the protesters”. On weekdays the number of protesters declined somewhat. On the second weekend, with heavy trucks and 7, demonstrators in the downtown core “red zone” as of Saturday evening, Sloly reported to an emergency meeting Ottawa Police Services board meeting, that even with all OPS officers on active duty and the hundreds of law-enforcement officials who came to help, he did not have the resources to end what he called the “turbulent protests”.
The Times said that many analysts have cautioned that some convoy’s leaders with military or policing backgrounds helped demonstrators strategize and plan under the guidance of people like Tom Quiggin, “proclaimed head of protective intelligence”, who had formerly served as an “intelligence officer for the Canadian military, cabinet office and federal police. The response of local police forces to these blockades has erred on the side of caution, with police at each site initially trying to negotiate with the protesters.
Plans for the creation of the new Integrated Command Centre were in place by February Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said on February 13, that they are in constant contact with provincial and municipal authorities. Because the situation is “critical” for Canada with the “closing of our borders, the targeting on critical infrastructure, particularly our points of entry by the people behind these protests”, it poses a “significant national security threat” to Canada, and we have to “end it”.
On Day 19 of the protests, with Ottawa under three states of emergency invoked by the three levels of government, Chief Sloly resigned. Overnight on February 14 there were “less than people in the blockade” and approximately vehicles still on the streets, in contrast to the estimated 4, vehicles at the end of January.
By late February 18 morning, CTV News and other mainstream media reporting in the red zone, showed police steadily, very slowly sandwiching groups of dozens of the remaining protesters on all sides on separate streets.
Families with children were seen in these final groups of protesters with police reporting that protesters were “putting children between their operations and the protest site.
He said that the CAS did not have to step in. By early afternoon, tactical officers began slowly entering the cabins of large rigs that had been parked in front of Parliament since the end of January. The last few protesters said without evidence, that the protest was legal, citing, but misunderstanding Canadian law. They may face charges later. Police used a minimal amount of force even late in the afternoon as members of different forces began “squeezing” the group of protesters “even tighter” on Wellington Street in front of Parliament.
On February 19, police began with a “hard, fast push” towards to the encampment at Parliament Hill. Due to the resistance of protesters, police wore helmets and batons for protection. The police will actively follow up with identifications, collect evidence, seek criminal charges with sanctions can include the financial level and licensing level. As of February 10, there was general agreement by government and police that vigorous efforts to clear the blockades were dangerous, possibly leading to expanded or violent reactions.
A variety of options were legally possible and some, such as issuing tickets, were employed. Tow-truck drivers in several locations declined to tow trucks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on February 3, declared his reluctance to employ the military to clear the protesters, saying he had received no formal request for military assistance and added, “One has to be very, very cautious before deploying military in situations engaging Canadians,” saying it’s not something to “enter into lightly”.
On February 11, the court injunction to clear protesters from the Ambassador Bridge, secured by the City of Windsor, went into effect at 7 pm. Penalties include revoking personal and commercial drivers’ licences. On February 17, police massed at a staging area in Ottawa. A 12 foot-high fence was constructed around the Parliament building and over checkpoints limited access to the protest area.
Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were arrested in separate instances, and Lich stated that her personal bank account had been frozen. That same day, police made at least 70 arrests and towed 21 vehicles by mid-afternoon.
A protester was arrested and charged for allegedly throwing a bicycle and hitting the legs of a horse from the Toronto Police Service Mounted Unit at about By late afternoon, the last large group of protesters was corralled near the corner of Bank and Sparks Streets, with police holding a line for several hours as the crowd swelled to approximately 1, by dusk and a street party with an impromptu DJ ensued.
After nightfall, the line of police unexpectedly advanced on the celebratory crowd, pushing it a block south to Queen Street, spraying pepper gas as they did so. Fencing was erected afterwards, and the crowd gradually dispersed over the course of the night.
Protest leaders advised leaving the area and were asking for permission to do so. Pepper gas had been used; one police officer suffered a minor injury. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson described the situation as “the most serious emergency our city has ever faced”. On February 23 at p. On February 14, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association criticized the invocation of the Act in a press release, saying, “The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act.
This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met. After the invocation of the Act, Chrystia Freeland , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance announced that the purview of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada was expanded to include the monitoring of funds sent through crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe , where protestors had raised millions that were ultimately refunded, as well as payment providers formerly outside its scope.
Freeland specifically cited cryptocurrency transactions, which the protestors turned to after GoFundMe, as a type of digital transaction that the new measures were meant to cover. Canadian banks were also temporarily given the authority to freeze accounts suspected of being used to support the protests without the need to obtain court orders, were granted legal immunity if they chose to do so, and were allowed to more freely share information with law enforcement and government agencies.
On February 21, the House of Commons voted to confirm the Emergencies Act , with for and opposing the motion. Protesters returned on February 12, where a police barricade was set up. A convoy led by a privately owned vehicle painted in military style broke through the police barricades, [] [] and the border crossing was subsequently closed.
On February 15, the border crossing reopened. Through RCMP negotiating, protesters voluntarily left the blockade on February 16 and the border crossing was reopened.
The blockage at Emerson, Manitoba border crossing was cleared February 15, Also on February 4, Toronto Police started closing roads in the downtown in anticipation of a large protest and told residents to expect a larger police presence during the weekend.
In response, a group of healthcare workers staged a counter-protest. Hundreds of protesters and several trucks blocked the intersection for hours. Fearing possible threats against healthcare workers, University Health Network and Sinai Health System , which operate major hospitals in the protest area, warned their employees to avoid wearing any clothing or badges that would identify them as health-care workers outside hospital premises.
During the protest, a year-old man was arrested and charged with assault with a weapon, use of a smoke bomb administering a noxious substance , and public mischief.
On February 5, at a related protest in downtown Winnipeg , four people were injured in a ramming incident. One was hospitalized and later released. Police have yet to write tickets or lay charges against protesters, despite numerous noise complaints, fireworks without permit, and incidents of “homophobia, racism, and gender-based harassment. On January 30, the Government of Nova Scotia made it illegal for people to gather on Highway along the border with New Brunswick in anticipation of protesters blockading the highway.
The Halifax Regional Police blocked off access to some roads in downtown Halifax in response to the protest. Protestors gathered in Edmonton for three consecutive Saturdays, and an Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice granted an interim injunction on February 11, , prohibiting protest participants from causing incessant sound with horns and megaphones within city limits.
In February , a solidarity protest was organized in the United Kingdom with a convoy driving from Scotland to London with stops in cities throughout the British isles.
Other convoys were reported in Wales and parts of England. On February 23, a group of American truckers began a solidarity protest convoy from California to Washington, D. A website for the protest said that they will not enter “D. However, one participant who described himself as the lead trucker said that he would drive his truck into the city. Several smaller splinter groups formed in the aftermath of the disbandment, such as the Restoration Movement.
A motorcycle convoy of “hundreds” is scheduled to enter Ottawa on April Looking to avoid of a repeat of the previous convoy, Ottawa Police announced that vehicles would not be allowed near the Hill.
The Royal Canadian Legion distanced itself from the protest, stating in part “The Legion defends these sacred sites of Remembrance, and asserts that they should never be used as a backdrop for any other agenda beyond the act of Remembrance.
Our hope and appeal to all who may gather before the National War Memorial this weekend is that they do so with a focus purely on Remembrance. A large crowd gathered on Rideau Street in the evening, in front of Rideau Centre. After an escalation of crowd aggression, police with helmets and shields were deployed.
An attempted to occupy a parking lot was overturned. In total, seven people were arrested on the first evening. Rolling Thunder’s organizer, Neil Sheard, has attempted to distance himself from Saccoccia. It claims to have collaborated with Sheard’s group.
As early as February 10, before the protest ended, the SECU committee devoted two sessions to the Crowdfunding Platforms and Extremism Financing investigation, [] and interviewed 17 witnesses in the Occupation of Ottawa and the Federal Government’s Response to Convoy Blockades segment. On February 25, in sworn witness testimony to the SECU committee, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino , in answer to the Shadow Minister for Public Safety Raquel Dancho , stated that “I would just point out that from the very outset of the illegal blockade, that a number of organizers and leaders of the so-called Freedom Convoy made a number of profoundly concerning and extremist statements calling for the overthrow of the government through violence.
On March 24, the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police Thomas Carrique stated in sworn testimony before the committee that “the province’s intelligence bureau identified a threat associated with the lengthy protest in the national capital on February 7, one week before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act On May 19, Shadow Minister for Emergency Preparedness Dane Lloyd asked Minister for Public Safety Marco Mendicino about the need for the invocation of the Emergencies Act and elicited the comment that the latter “stands by previous statements that the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on the recommendation of law enforcement officials.
Early on in the life of the DECD committee its NDP co-chair, Matthew Green , said that committee members “have a ‘responsibility’ to work together” in light of the disagreement of the Official Opposition over the constitution of the committee.
It consisted of seven MPs and four senators. On March 6, co-chair Green was “interested in looking at the actions of police or the lack of them , the role played by ‘dark money’ raised through” the GoFundMe and GiveSendGo crowdfunding platforms. Major auto manufacturers were forced to pause production; “automakers and their suppliers” were having to “scramble to get parts to plants on time” for the current week’s run.
Twenty-five per cent of the value of “all U. Over 50 per cent of the businesses in the area that was blockaded lost revenue. Yalnizyan also noted the “incalculable damage” to Canada’s international reputation as a trade partner which could have a negative impact on supply chains and “political discourse.
The closure began January 29, with the mall reopening on February An imitation firearm in the mall resulted in a police-led evacuation, multiple hour closure, and closure of the O-Train at nearby stations.
There were 13 arrests on February 14 in relation to this seizure. In response to criticism that police had been too soft on “disruptive protesters”, on February 1, Chief Sloly said that it was a “measure of success” that there were “no riots, no injuries, no deaths”. Complaints focused around lack of enforcement on noise due to constant horn-honking, [] [] disruption of livelihoods [] and continued gridlock. Criticism has also focused on “the sharp contrast between the occupiers’ reception and the ways police forces all over Canada treat Black and Indigenous people, who are violently policed for existing in public space, let alone protesting.
On February 4, Ottawa Police hired Navigator Ltd , a crisis public relations firm to aid in handling messaging to the public.
By February 13, on Day 17, federal Minister Blair “urged the police to do their jobs, enforce the law and restore order”. On February 16, Ottawa city councillor Diane Deans was removed by council as chair of the Police board, in a 15—9 vote. Councillors described the board as ineffective in oversight, and were critical of the hiring of an interim chief without consultation. Hiring is something the Ontario Police Services Act allows them to do, and the choice had received support of the Ontario Solicitor General.
A vote to remove councillor Carol Anne Meehan from the board failed. Councillor Rawlson King resigned from the board during the meeting. A citizen vice chair resigned earlier in the day. Six investigators and two forensic investigators from the Special Investigations Unit are investigating two incidents involving the police. The first is an incident on Friday, at about p. The family of the woman said that “she is alive and is recovering from a broken clavicle.
The Ottawa Police Services Board unanimously supported a motion on February 24, for the Ontario Civilian Police Commission to open an investigation into the response to the protest. From an access-to-information request , emails between the National Capital Commission and Ottawa Police Services revealed that law enforcement overall was hampered by poor communication, disagreement on approaches and tactics, and confusion over jurisdiction.
Active investigations are underway for a number of widely publicized incidents including those related to the Unknown Soldier’s memorial and the Terry Fox statue as well as for more general incidents, including bribery, threats, assault, dangerous driving, and setting a fire in a building.
Chief Sloly warned offenders that if they had come from elsewhere and committed a crime, including hate crime in Ottawa, there have been “intelligence officers, investigative officers, and multi-jurisdictional support” from across Canada at work in the background. He said, that “no matter where you live, no matter where your vehicles are registered You will be investigated We will look for you.
We will charge you, if necessary, will arrest you, and we will pursue prosecutions against you. On February 7, some two dozen arrests were made, and nearly 80 criminal investigations had begun. On March 21, a year-old Ottawa man unrelated to the protest was charged in connection with the fire. Many protesters ignored the agreement. The lawsuit went to court on the afternoon of February 5 and a hearing was adjourned to February 7.
EST on February 7. Union and Happy Goat Coffee were added as plaintiffs. Paul Champ is the lawyer for the plaintiffs, residents of downtown Ottawa. The injunction freezes convoy donations which could eventually be redistributed to residents who are including in the suit. Justin Trudeau , the Prime Minister of Canada , dismissed the supply chain disruption concerns as unfounded on the basis that most Canadian truckers have been vaccinated.
We won’t cave to those who engage in vandalism, or dishonour the memory of our veterans. Omar Alghabra , the Minister of Transport , said on January 31, that since January 15 when the truck drivers’ vaccine mandate came into effect, the traffic volumes of transport trucks crossing the Canada-US border had not decreased.
Compared to the fall of , and based on Statistics Canada ‘s most recent figures, even with a “massive snowstorm, even though it was a U. Erin O’Toole , Leader of the Official Opposition and the Conservative Party as the convoys started, initially declined to support the protest, saying instead that the best way to maintain supply chains is for truckers to get vaccinated.
Conservative MPs Candice Bergen , [] Andrew Scheer , [] Garnett Genuis , [] Pierre Poilievre , [] [] Martin Shields , [] Warren Steinley , Jeremy Patzer , [] [] and Leslyn Lewis [] [] all expressed their support for the convoy and truckers’ movement, although some, such as Poilievre, denounced individual protesters who were promoting extremism. A person in behind Cooper had an upside-down Canadian flag with a swastika ; Cooper says that he was unaware.
On February 10, as a third border blockade began in Manitoba, the Conservatives reversed their position supporting the border blockades. Bergen called for the blockades to disperse, “for the sake of the economy”, but vowed to continue pushing the governing Liberals to release a clear plan for ending COVID restrictions. During debate on the Emergencies Act , Conservative Members of Parliament dismissed the convoy; deputy whip Lianne Rood called it joyful, and compared it to Canada Day.
The People’s Party organized a rally in Waterloo on January 23 supporting the convoy, at which Bernier and Hillier both spoke. Although repeatedly encouraging vaccination, Moe argued that it would only reduce the chance of severe outcomes, and did not prevent infection or transmission of COVID—a statement that was subsequently disputed—and for that reason he did not support the cross-border vaccine mandate, and would lift proof of vaccination requirements in Saskatchewan “in the not too-distant future”.
Members of Parliament reported an increase in inappropriate and threatening calls to their offices, in correlation with the protests. That is unacceptable. Facebook stated that they had removed fake users that were set up in overseas content farms , in Romania , Vietnam , and Bangladesh , which were promoting the convoy protests in Canada.
After this announcement, New York Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney questioned Facebook as to the number of the accounts, when they were identified and how many impressions they had on US and Canadian users, comparing it to Russian interference in the US elections.
After Ottawa was cleared, conservative commentator Candace Owens called for American troops to be sent to Canada “to deal with the tyrannical reign of Justin Trudeau Castro. In their February 7 statement, Teamsters Canada , representing more than 55, professional drivers, including approximately 15, long-haul truck drivers, of whom 90 per cent are vaccinated, said that the protest “serves to delegitimize the real concerns of most truck drivers today”.
The statement said that the convoy and “the despicable display of hate led by the political right and shamefully encouraged by elected conservative politicians does not reflect the values of Teamsters Canada. On January 25, the Canadian Trucking Alliance CTA , a truckers’ trade association , and the federal government issued a formal statement reinforcing the use of vaccinations, along with other public health measures, to protect Canadian health care and to reduce COVID risk.
In the statement the CTA and the government committed to working together to respond to supply chain constraints.
CTA members can express their disagreement with government policies by holding an “organized, lawful event on Parliament Hill”. Stephen Laskowski, CTA president said the trucking industry “must adapt and comply with this mandate”. The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada noted concern about the convoy’s “racist remarks”, citing the comparisons to Nazis and communism.
The Canadian Labour Congress called the protest in Ottawa “an occupation by an angry mob trying to disguise itself as a peaceful protest”. Various trucking companies have tried to distance themselves from the convoys, claiming that the vehicles are owner-operated, despite featuring their logos. But perhaps even instigating it from, from the outset”.
According to Local Journalism Initiative, ethnic media outlets exhibited a variety of reporting and reactions to the protests. Additionally, reporting noted that “most Punjabi truckers are vaccinated, as vaccine coverage in the Punjabi community is high. Their priorities are around road safety, snow clearance, road maintenance, as well as working conditions and wage theft.
Rich Lowry of Politico argued that “The embrace of the Canadian trucker protesters by the American right is a sign that the Tea Party spirit circa the early Obama years was never fully extinguished. Since then, everything has changed — most importantly, the rise of Donald Trump and his movement — and nothing has changed.
It is freedom that remains the most natural and powerful Republican rallying cry. Canadian scholar Peter McLaren criticized the convoy protesters’ “concept of freedom” as “sorely lacking in dialectical analysis. McLaren also argued that their concept of freedom “is historically linked to settler colonialism, that is, a form of colonialism grounded in exogenous domination, a form of colonialism that seeks to displace the original population of the colonized territory with new groups of settlers who typically justify such colonization through an identification with imperial authority.
General Wayne Eyre , Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff , said he was “sickened to see protesters dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and desecrate the National War Memorial “, after video of such events surfaced online January In late January , Elon Musk tweeted “Canadian truckers rule” and followed it up with “If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny. The tweet was later deleted. The Auschwitz Memorial also condemned Musk’s tweet.
Barry Prentice, transportation economy professor at University of Manitoba , stated that the truckers should be treated differently than flight crews or passenger-train employees, and that the positive aspects of vaccine mandates should be evaluated against the disruptions they would cause to the freight industry. Brand also said in the video that “Truckers, who were previously regarded as heroes when they were delivering vital goods and working during the lockdown, are now villains as they protest vaccine mandates”.
Former President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad , praised the protests, tweeting “violent crackdown on FreedomConvoy has nothing to do with freedom of speech and human rights. Great Barrington Declaration co-author Martin Kulldorff tweeted in support of the protests.
According to the Washington Examiner , psychologist and conservative commentator Jordan Peterson offered a “message of congratulations and caution” to the convoy. The Terry Fox Foundation condemned the defacing of Fox’s statue with anti-mandate signs. The Royal Canadian Legion called protesters dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier “shocking” and “strongly condemn[ed]” their actions.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms provides legal support of the convoy and its contacts with media. On February 12, Facebook removed anti-vaccine, pro-convoy Facebook groups that were run from Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Romania. Singer and activist Bill Fries, whose song ” Convoy ” recorded under his alias C. McCall was used as a rallying cry for the movement, gave his implicit approval for the use of the song in that manner, and was pleased that the movement had caused an uptick in interest in the song, in the final interview he gave before he died.
Durham Regional Police Service Constable Erin Howard, who made a video while in uniform in her squad car supporting the protesters and later posted it online in January, was suspended and faced six charges under the Police Services Act , including discreditable conduct and insubordination. Her first court hearing was held over Zoom on May 5, , with the proceeding then being adjourned until June Some members of the political left were initially hesitant to criticize the convoy because “the truckers were often described as a working-class movement”.
In a Abacus Data survey of 1, Canadian adults, undertaken before the protest turned into an occupation, between January 31 and February 2, , 68 per cent stated that they “had very little in common” with the demonstrators and their ideology and 32 per cent of respondents stated that they “had a lot in common” with the protestors and their worldview.
Furthermore, 43 per cent of respondents stated that they felt the protest was “respectful and appropriate”, while 57 per cent viewed it as “offensive and inappropriate”. A study by Vox Pop Labs among a randomly pre-selected sample of 2, respondents, conducted between January 4 and 10, , found that around 70 per cent of Canadians were willing to support a general vaccine mandate for all non-exempt adults over the age of 18, while around 30 per cent disagreed.
On its subsequent questionnaire, a further 65 per cent expressed the belief that the convoy represented “a small minority of selfish Canadians,” 57 per cent viewed it as “not about vaccine mandates and pandemic restrictions” but rather “an opportunity for right wing supremacist groups to rally and voice their frustrations about society,” and 52 per cent likened it to the United States Capitol attack. Opposition to the convoy was highest among respondents living in urban areas, those vaccinated for COVID, and those aged 55 and up; while support for the convoy was highest among the unvaccinated, respondents aged 18 to 54, and respondents living in Alberta.
A poll by Maru Public Opinion found that 64 per cent of Canadians polled would support the aid of the Canadian Armed Forces to tow trucks from the protests and 53 per cent of Canadians polled would support the use of force by Ottawa Police to clear out Ottawa protesters. An Angus Reid Institute poll released on February 14 found that 72 per cent of Canadians polled thought that it was time for protesters to “go home, they have made their point.
A Nanos Research poll commissioned by CTV News and released on February 25 found that 51 per cent of Canadians polled thought the protests were ineffective, 15 per cent thought they were somewhat ineffective, 20 per cent thought they were somewhat effective, 12 per cent thought they were effective, and 2 per cent were unsure of the protests’ impact.
The poll also found that 44 per cent of Americans opposed the convoy protests, while 40 per cent supported them. Among Republicans, 71 per cent supported the convoy protests, compared to 18 per cent of Democrats.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the convoy protest known as the “Freedom Convoy”. For the convoy protest to Ottawa, see On-to-Ottawa Trek. Convoy: —1, vehicles, [2] [3] [4] including: — trucks — personal vehicles Protests: Estimates of 3, to 18, people [a].
See also: Timeline of the Canada convoy protest. See also: France convoy protest , Wellington protests , and Convoy to Canberra. This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
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Canada has inoculated much of its population against COVID, but the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant has raised concerns of a fourth wave, prompting some provinces to announce plans to impose vaccine passport systems for entry into restaurants, bars, gyms and other indoor public places. Trudeau has said he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccines for all federal employees, while also announcing that passengers wanting to travel on aeroplanes and trains in Canada would be required to show proof of vaccination.
Anti-vaccine protesters also rallied outside Canadian hospitals in recent weeks to denounce mandatory vaccinations and other measures. This is wrong and unacceptable — full stop.