Ottawa (Canada): Canadian lawmakers have called the busiest conflict between the US and Canada due to truck owners’ protests against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccination requirements. Concerns have been raised about the economic loss due to the partial blockade of the border.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said on Tuesday that vehicles were blocked from entering Canada on the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit in Michigan and Windsor in Ontario, Canada, while some US-bound vehicles were blocked from entering Canada. Vehicles are still running. He described this bridge as one of the most important cross-border routes in the world. This bridge carries 25 percent of all trade traffic between Canada and the United States.
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Canada’s Transport Minister Omar Aljabr said the disruption of traffic would have serious economic and supply chain effects and was a cause for great concern. The country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during an emergency debate in parliament on Monday that protesters were “trying to disrupt our economy, our democracy”. Protesters park hundreds of trucks in Ottawa as part of a ‘Freedom Truck Convoy’ demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions.
After Trudeau’s statement, truck owners spokesman Tom Marejo reiterated at a news conference that the protesters wanted to overthrow the government. He said that he is willing to meet the opposition parties for this. All three opposition parties together could topple Trudeau’s government, but this is unlikely as the opposition parties ‘New Democrats’ and ‘Bloc Québécois’ have condemned the demonstration.