Freedom Convoy: Ottawa residents 'prisoners in own homes'

[kShehzad]

Protests in Canada's capital city against a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border have entered their third consecutive day.
Citing "traffic, noise and safety issues" from the so-called Freedom Convoy, Ottawa police asked the public to avoid the downtown area on Monday.
Some downtown stores, including a shopping mall, will also be closed.
Demonstrators have been mostly peaceful but behaviour by some members of the crowd has been strongly criticised.
A GoFundMe page to support the convoy has now raised over C$9m ($7m; £5.2m).
At an invite-only news conference on Sunday, Benjamin Dichter and Tamara Lich - the two organisers behind the page - said they aimed to create a "logistics nightmare" to put pressure on the Canadian government.

• The truckers shutting down Canada's capital
• How vaccine mandates became a Canada election issue

The convoy began as a call to end a vaccine mandate imposed by the Liberal government on 15 January that would require unvaccinated Canadian truckers returning from across the US border to quarantine once they return home.
But it has since grown into a push to end all vaccine mandates nationwide and what they see as government overreach of Covid-19 restrictions.
The crowd of demonstrators - the truckers and their supporters - were estimated to be in the thousands on Saturday as the gathered on and around parliament hill. The crowd has since thinned but many protestors have indicated they plan to stay on until their demands are met.
Around 90% of Canada's 120,000 cross-border truckers are vaccinated, in line with the country's adult population, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the protestors "a fringe minority".
Mr Trudeau left his Ottawa home with his family over the weekend and has been staying at an undisclosed location amid security concerns.

On Monday morning, he tweeted that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and would "continue to work remotely this week while following public health guidelines".

Members of parliament will be returning to the House of Commons on Monday after nearly two months on recess. Existing permissions for MPs to work remotely may allow legislators to avoid the protestors that have converged on parliament hill.
On Sunday, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said residents "feel they're prisoners in their own homes".

"You have the right to protest, you've had your protest, please move on. Our city has to get back in normal stead," he told CBC News.

Also over the weekend, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies slammed the use of Nazi symbols by some protestors as "a heinous form of Holocaust distortion".
Reports on social media indicate that truckers in the US may be planning a similar demonstration that would see them drive from California in the West to the country's capital in Washington DC.

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[Canon Shooter]

This is fuckin' beautiful...

 

[Otis Mayfield]

It's like Black Lives Matter only for COVID deniers.

 

[JGalt]

Honk Honk

 

[theHawk]

Protests in Canada's capital city against a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border have entered their third consecutive day.
Citing "traffic, noise and safety issues" from the so-called Freedom Convoy, Ottawa police asked the public to avoid the downtown area on Monday.
Some downtown stores, including a shopping mall, will also be closed.
Demonstrators have been mostly peaceful but behaviour by some members of the crowd has been strongly criticised.
A GoFundMe page to support the convoy has now raised over C$9m ($7m; £5.2m).
At an invite-only news conference on Sunday, Benjamin Dichter and Tamara Lich - the two organisers behind the page - said they aimed to create a "logistics nightmare" to put pressure on the Canadian government.

• The truckers shutting down Canada's capital
• How vaccine mandates became a Canada election issue

The convoy began as a call to end a vaccine mandate imposed by the Liberal government on 15 January that would require unvaccinated Canadian truckers returning from across the US border to quarantine once they return home.
But it has since grown into a push to end all vaccine mandates nationwide and what they see as government overreach of Covid-19 restrictions.
The crowd of demonstrators - the truckers and their supporters - were estimated to be in the thousands on Saturday as the gathered on and around parliament hill. The crowd has since thinned but many protestors have indicated they plan to stay on until their demands are met.
Around 90% of Canada's 120,000 cross-border truckers are vaccinated, in line with the country's adult population, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the protestors "a fringe minority".
Mr Trudeau left his Ottawa home with his family over the weekend and has been staying at an undisclosed location amid security concerns.


Members of parliament will be returning to the House of Commons on Monday after nearly two months on recess. Existing permissions for MPs to work remotely may allow legislators to avoid the protestors that have converged on parliament hill.
On Sunday, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said residents "feel they're prisoners in their own homes".

Also over the weekend, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies slammed the use of Nazi symbols by some protestors as "a heinous form of Holocaust distortion".
Reports on social media indicate that truckers in the US may be planning a similar demonstration that would see them drive from California in the West to the country's capital in Washington DC.

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[Concerned American]

Around 90% of Canada's 120,000 cross-border truckers are vaccinated, in line with the country's adult population

If this is true ^^ and the vax is effective then there is no need for quarantines and masks. Ten percent of ~40M is only 4M in the second largest, geographically, nation in the world. This is a government control overreach in the extreme. Time to run Trudeau out of Canada.

 

[Concerned American]

It's like Black Lives Matter only for COVID deniers.

Without the murder, arson, looting and public terrorism

 

[mamooth]

The delusion is strong here with the antivaxxers.

The Canadian response to these thugs is "What a bunch of losers." It's been a PR catastrophe for the Canadian right.

 

[Donald H]

My biggest concern is that some social agency start handing out blankets for the few that intend on staying for a few days.

As to their cause? Who really knows? The truckers protesting the vaccines or mandates was a sham, as over 90% are for the vaccines and are vaccinated anyway.

Now it has something to do with 'freedom' but nobody really knows what 'freedom' Canadians are denied? And then that's just one splinter group shedded off from the whole.

Basically, the main cause will be to cause trouble and support the anti-government that is Bernier's PPC extreme right splinter off of the Conservatives.

Can Americans supply some warm blankets to begin with? They'll be united on that need for sure!

 

[Canon Shooter]

The delusion is strong here with the antivaxxers.

The Canadian response to these thugs is "What a bunch of losers." It's been a PR catastrophe for the Canadian right.

And it's been an absolute practical victory for the truckers. They aimed to shut down Parliament Hill and they've done just that...

 

[Donald H]

The delusion is strong here with the antivaxxers.

The Canadian response to these thugs is "What a bunch of losers." It's been a PR catastrophe for the Canadian right.

It really has been a PR disaster because of O'Toole flipflopping on supporting them or opposing them, and allowing Bernier to represent the right.

Bernier owns the right's position on this goatfu-k and that ensures the Liberal party gets the highroad. Bernier is a David Duke waving a Canadian flag!

 

[mamooth]

And it's been an absolute practical victory for the truckers. They aimed to shut down Parliament Hill and they've done just that...

Well, yes, a thousand people can shut down a very small area, if the police let them. And the Canadian Police have. They're very polite police. People still think the truckers and their suckups are twats.

If the government had been in session, it would have been even more awesome. But since they weren't, the antivaxxers made up a story about how they made the government flee.

 

[Donald H]

And it's been an absolute practical victory for the truckers. They aimed to shut down Parliament Hill and they've done just that...

I heard that parliament is in session today.
But Justin isn't there in person due to him being infected with Covid.

 

[Esdraelon]

It's like Black Lives Matter only for COVID deniers.

Really? I must have missed the arson and looters.

 

[Esdraelon]

And it's been an absolute practical victory for the truckers. They aimed to shut down Parliament Hill and they've done just that...

They also managed to run that fancy little bitch of a PM out of town, as well. Too funny.

 

[Concerned American]

As to their cause? Who really knows? The truckers protesting the vaccines or mandates was a sham, as over 90% are for the vaccines and are vaccinated anyway.

This makes absolutely NO sense. If 90% are vaccinated and the vax is safe and effective (as the government claims) then there is NO reason to force vax or masks or quarantines on a protected public. Purely government overreach and panic by an easily terrified segment of the population. SCAMDEMIC.

 

[Concerned American]

They also managed to run that fancy little bitch of a PM out of town, as well. Too funny.

LOL, he's quarantining.

 

[Esdraelon]

as over 90% are for the vaccines and are vaccinated anyway.

Yeah? For how long? I mean, that definition is a little fluid, innit? It's kind of a "moving target".

 

[Concerned American]

I heard that parliament is in session today.
But Justin isn't there in person due to him being infected with Covid.

What happened to that "very necessary and effective" vax that he was supposed to be vaxxed with? Sounds like more governmental lying to me.

 

[Donald H]

What happened to that "very necessary and effective" vax that he was supposed to be vaxxed with? Sounds like more governmental lying to me.

Has the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines not been explained to you in simple enough language for you to understand?

Briefly, in the interest of no need to repeat the message over and over again for those who haven't paid attention;
Some vaccinated people still become infected.
Vaccinated individuals suffer far less severely than those who don't heed Trump's advice and still refuse to be vaccinated.

I'm sorry I don't have the time or the patience to go into further detail.