Ottawa: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded late Monday to protest by hundreds of truck drivers against restrictions Covid-19 who have paralyzed the capital, as Mayor Ottawa requested support.
“It must stop,” Trudeau said during an emergency debate at the House of Commons, returning to Parliament after isolation for a week due to a positive Covid-19 test.
“This pandemic has sucked for all Canadians,” said the prime minister, seemed frustrated for protests who had brought Ottawa to traffic jams for more than a week.
“But Canadians know how to pass it continues to listen to science, continue to lean with each other,” he added.
He promises the support of the federal government “with any resource needed by the province and the city,” without describing what steps might be planned.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson earlier urged the federal government to send 1,800 additional police officers and appointed a mediator to work with the protesters to “end this siege” worrying about the local population with diesel stoves and stopped.
On Sunday, Watson declared an emergency in the capital, expressed protest “out of control.” “They don’t know what to do with us,” said the 59-year-old farmer and truck driver John Lambert, who took part in protest.
“What they have to do is come to their common sense.
It’s up to them to solve it.” The “Freedom Convoy” demonstration began January 9 in West Canada in protest by truck drivers angry with vaccine requirements when crossing the US-Canadian border.
They have since transformed a broader protest against the restrictions on Covid-19 health and the Trudeau government.
Organizer protests Tamara Lich said activists were willing to engage with the government to find a way out of the crisis, but insisted that the limitation of pandemics was made easier.
“What we are trying to do now is to reach all the federal parties so we can arrange sitting,” Lich said during the meeting on YouTube.
With blocked capital centers and businesses were forced to close, the police had burned the protracted crisis.
To raise pressure on the protesters, Ottawa Sunday police announced new steps to tame demonstrations by banning people from bringing fuel and other equipment to the demonstration.
“Anyone who tries to bring material support (gas, etc.) to demonstrators can be arrested,” police said on Twitter.
Officers have since arrested several people, seizing many vehicles and spending hundreds of traffic tickets.
The protesters have raised funds to maintain protests, but were disconnected by the GofundMe fundraising site, which said they had violated their policies on the content “promoting behavior in supporting violence.” The organizer quickly launched a fundraising campaign at the Cristh Christian Giveendgo website that had collected more than $ 5 million on Monday night.
Trudeau last week put aside mobilizing the army to dissolve the protesters “for now,” said that someone must be “very, very careful before mobilizing the military in the situation of Canadians.” “Trudeau won’t get anything by talking to the demonstrators,” Genevieve Tellier, a political scientist at Ottawa University, told AFP.
But another political analyst, Boile Frederic from Alberta University, said that the protest could increase into a full political crisis.
“Justin Trudeau reacted badly at first,” Boily said.
“He reacted too strongly and was too suddenly at the beginning of the protest when he tried to paint them in a distant protest.” Boily added that Trudeau “added fuel to fire” by changing vaccination into political problems, especially during the campaign of the summer election.
But the opposition also found himself in a politically binding.
Conservatives, who will soon choose to choose their new leaders, themselves are divided into protest problems.
“They are afraid that part of their supporters will be tempted by extreme rights, but it is a risky bet for them,” said Political Analyst Daniel Beland.
While only about 10 percent of Canadian adults remain undoubted, 32 percent of the population supports anti-mandate protests, according to the latest surveys.
Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino voiced support for the vaccine and hit the protest, said, “We cannot allow an angry crowd to reverse the course that continues to save life in this last stretch” from a pandemic.
“This should never be a precedent for how to make policies in Canada.”
Justin Trudeau said Canada Trucker protested ‘must stop’
