Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have left their home in Ottawa and are currently staying at a secret location, the Canadian press reported, after a convoy of roughly 50,000 trucks reached the capital - the drivers are protesting the Canadian government's vaccine policy and closures due to the coronavirus.
The scale of the march, dubbed the "Freedom Convoy" by protesters, is characterized by the length of the chain of trucks traveling from west to east coast along the Canada-US border, exceeding 45 miles (about 70 kilometers) as some 9,000 marched along. kilometers along the national border. Arriving in the Canadian capital, thousands of truckers protest the vaccine regulations by honking their horns loudly, The Daily Mail reports
Canadian police cordoned off the area around the parliament and told the public to stay away from the route of the protests. The protesters now say they will remain in the capital until the Canadian government decides to lift the restrictions.
The protests were sparked by the fact that, as of January 15, according to the new regulations, drivers can only cross the border between the United States and Canada (the two countries carry out huge freight traffic) from both directions if they present their vaccination certificate. Unvaccinated drivers are subject to a coronavirus test and quarantine.
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Trudeau may have been surprised by the scale of the protest, as he previously called the protesting group an insignificant minority - he must have based his opinion on the fact that nearly 90 percent of Canada's population is vaccinated against Covid-19.
Source: Blikk.hu
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