Ottawa: “Freedom convoy” trucks who joined thousands of demonstrators brought Ottawa to virtual traffic jams for the second Sunday to protest the Canadian vaccine mandate, when other sympathetic drivers blocked the border highway to the United States.
“This afternoon, the presence of a large police continues throughout the city center and the movement of protesters and trucks continues to be managed,” Ottawa police said in a statement.
“This high-risk situation does not increase and resolved without arrest,” said the authorities, added, however, that “police resources were fully stretched” in dealing with obstruction, which seemed to involve hundreds of truck drivers.
The protest came last week in Western Canada, where dozens of truck drivers organized convoys to drive from Vancouver to the capital of Canada Ottawa to show restrictions related to Covid, especially the recent vaccination requirements for truck drivers who cross the US-Canadian long border.
The truck began arriving at Ottawa on Friday in several convoys, and joined thousands of other anti-vaccination protesters.
In solidarity with convergence in Ottawa, the truck driver on Sunday held what the police described as “total blockage” Highway 4 in West Alberta Province along the US border along the US border.
The road is the main artery for commercial goods between countries.
“At this time …
the entry port remains openly open, but no one can get to them except by foot,” Curtis Peters, spokesman for the Royal Canadian police officer, who was installed in Alberta, told AFP, added it around 100 trucks block the road.
In Ottawa, warning warnings and harassment of several city officials and NGO volunteers triggered an angry response, and the police said they had launched “several investigations.” “I was sick of seeing a dancing protester on the tomb of an unknown army and tarnishing the commemoration of the National War,” Wayne Eyre, the head of the country’s defense staff, said on Twitter.
“Those who are involved have to hang up to you ashamed.” Baritricade was installed on Sunday to block vehicle access to the area around war warnings, after several vehicles parked illegally drawn.
And an organization that advocated for homeless people, good expectations, said the workers had been “harassed” by the demonstrators demanding food on a very cold weekend.
It was said that it briefly provided free food to several demonstrators in an effort to relieve tension, but added, “this weekend event has caused significant tensions to our operations at a difficult time.” With the collection of protesters, Justin Trudeau’s Prime Minister and his family were transferred Saturday to locations that were not disclosed in Ottawa, Media Canada reported.
The Canadian truck alliance, a large industrial group, said most of the country’s truck drivers were vaccinated.
This has been “very approved” from interference in Ottawa.