Protesters are still disrupting daily life and affecting businesses throughout Ottawa this week, leading Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act, a powerful, never-used legislation that grants authorities temporary powers during a crisis, such as prohibiting public assembly that continues to disrupt the peace. Police arrested multiple remaining protesters over the weekend, and Canadian authorities were able to reopen the Ambassador Bridge late Sunday. The protests continued to escalate over the weekend after Ontario’s premier declared a state of emergency on Friday and a judge ordered an end to the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Michigan and Ontario. Others have said the protests won’t end until Trudeau resigns. The protesters have said they won’t stop until the mandates are lifted. First blocking traffic in Ottawa, the protests have expanded, with similar demonstrations in Toronto, Quebec City, Calgary and on the Ambassador Bridge. The prime minister early on dismissed the truckers as a “fringe minority” of people who don’t align with Canadian views, but the government has struggled to contain the protesters through three straight weekends of protests. Only a small amount was actually dispersed to organizers since GoFundMe shut down the campaign after police cited “violence and unlawful activity” during the protests. dollars, through GoFundMe for their “Freedom Convoy” protests. The protest organizers have raised about $10 million Canadian dollars, or $7.8 million U.S.
CANADIAN TRUCKERS STRIKE TRIAL
James Bauder reportedly supports QAnon conspiracy theories and has called for Trudeau to be put on trial for treason because of his pandemic policies. Key organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” include Tamara Lich, who previously worked as the secretary of the Maverick party, a far-right group launched to promote the separation of the country’s three western Prairie Provinces Maxime Bernier, who leads the far-right People’s Party of Canada and James and Sandra Bauder, who lead a group calling itself Canada Unity. 28, a group of truckers traveled to Ottawa, Canada’s capital, in protest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vaccine mandates for truckers traveling into the country from the United States.
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