As Grid News reported Friday, those behind the so-called “People’s Convoy” are hoping a thousand truckers from across the U.S. There is also an effort underway to stage a similar convoy protest in the U.S., where the Canadian truckers’ story has been a cause célèbre for many figures on the American right and on right-wing media. In recent weeks, the Canadian protests have inspired convoy-style demonstrations attended by anti-vaxxers and anti-government activists abroad. border crossing in British Columbia on Saturday. While the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protest stronghold in Ottawa is finally now gone, people aligning themselves with the truckers are still trying to stage other protests throughout Canada, including at a U.S. By Saturday evening, the protesters who hadn’t been detained had effectively abandoned the area, and the city’s interim police chief declared that “this unlawful occupation is over.” By Sunday, security fences had been erected, and cleanup (and, this being Ottawa, snow removal) were underway. Since the operation began on Friday, police have arrested nearly 200 people and towed almost 60 vehicles, including big rigs, away from the streets around the Canadian Parliament.
The core of a more than three-week occupation staged by a group of truckers in downtown Ottawa against COVID-vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions has been cleared following the largest police operation in Canadian history.
Photo: Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images A leftover sign is seen as city employees clean up Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill, previously occupied by the Freedom Convoy, in Ottawa, Ontario on Sunday.
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