An American-Style Protest in Canada

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Canada has employed strict restrictions in its efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike in the United States, such measures have received very little pushback or politicization — until recently. Truckers protesting a vaccine mandate have occupied the nation’s capital, Ottawa, for three weeks, leading Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare a state of national emergency. We ask how Canada got to this point, and hear what the protest is like on the ground. Guest: Catherine Porter, the Toronto bureau chief for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	We're entering the third week of illegal blockades that have been disrupting the lives of too
0:17.6	many Canadians.
0:19.6	The federal government has invoked the Emergency's Act to supplement provincial and territorial
0:27.3	capacity to address the blockades and occupations.
0:34.8	Invoking the Emergency's Act is never the first thing a government should do, nor even
0:39.9	the second.
0:42.1	The Act is to be used sparingly and as a last resort.
0:48.1	I know that everyone is tired of this pandemic.
0:51.7	We're hearing your frustration with COVID and even with the temporary measures we had
0:57.6	to put forward to keep people safe.
1:00.6	I know people are frustrated, I hear it.
1:04.3	You have a right to express that frustration and even your anger with the government or government
1:11.0	policies.
1:12.0	It's something we'll always defend in this free and democratic country.
1:18.4	But blockading streets and critical infrastructure and depriving your neighbors of their freedoms
1:27.1	is a totally different thing.
1:31.6	It has to stop.
1:36.9	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bovart.
1:40.3	This is a daily.
1:43.1	For nearly three weeks now.
1:45.4	The beginning of the program in Canada, where a standoff between truckers and the country's
1:49.5	government over COVID restrictions shows no sign of ending.
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