: Canadian Protesters Defy Trudeau’s Emergency Powers With Border Blockades #WorldNEWS Demonstrators against vaccine mandates halted traffic at two major border crossings in Western Canada and some

Canadian Protesters Defy Trudeau’s Emergency Powers With Border Blockades #WorldNEWS
Demonstrators against vaccine mandates halted traffic at two major border crossings in Western Canada and some vowed to stay even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a law giving his government emergency powers to end blockades.
The main border posts in Alberta and Manitoba were closed Monday, with commercial traffic to the U. S. blocked by semi-trailers and farm equipment driven there by people opposed to Covid-19 vaccine rules.
The crossings one of which leads to Pembina, North Dakota and the other to Sweet Grass, Montana are the second- and third-busiest for freight trucks along the western border of the two countries. They saw a combined 392,000 trucks enter the U. S. from Canada last year, according to data from the U. S. Department of Transportation. Both were still closed to commercial vehicles as of 12:14 a. m. New York time on Tuesday, according to Canada’s border agency.
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The protests started in reaction to Canadian and U. S. laws requiring truckers crossing the border to be fully vaccinated, but they’ve morphed into a rally against Covid restrictions. After a group of demonstrators blocked the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Ontario for six days, snarling trade, Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act on Monday.
The move gives the government the right to ban public assembly in specific locations and to requisition property for managing the situation, including tow trucks. It also attempts to cut off fund-raising activities for the protesters expanding money-laundering provisions and allowing banks to freeze accounts without a court order.
The protests in Canada have been mostly peaceful, but not entirely. On Monday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 12 people who were part of the Alberta protest and seized a cache of ammunition and weapons, including a machete. The RCMP said they believed the group had “a willingness to use force against the police if any attempts were made to disrupt the blockade. ”
Along a highway about 10 miles from the border post in Coutts, Alberta, protesters railed against Trudeau and government overreach.
“I grew up in Europe and I’ve been to eastern European countries and I’ve seen what communism does to a country. It’s not what we want in Canada,” said Gary Baarda, a 52-year-old retired dairy farmer and immigrant from the Netherlands. If police try to break up the protests, “we will go arm-in-arm. They can remove us or shoot at us. We will not be violent. ”
At Emerson, Manitoba, protesters were allowing transport trucks with live animals to pass through, but other U. S. -bound vehicles were forced to find alternate routes.

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