This is going to be rather long for me so strap in.
So the Canadian government recently enacted new vaccine mandates and requirements for truckers coming back into Canada from the USA. This lead to many anti-vax truckers facing unemployment naturally. So instead of doing the far easier and safer and smarter option of simply getting the jab they organized themselves into a mass protest convoy thats now been dubbed "The Freedom Convoy".
This convoy's goals were originally stated to be to protest the mandate and have it repealed by blocking off our capital city of Ottawa and surrounding parliament. Of course it being a far right anti-vax movement it immediately attracted attention from a wide variety of fascists and far right assholes. This has lead to the convoy attracting a massive amount of far right individuals to the capital, in some cases even picking up some that wouldnt have been able or willing to make the trip otherwise.
So now the capital is filled with far right individuals defiling various Canadian cultural sites and flying various fascist flags in the streets. People have reported being harassed for wearing masks, some people of colour have has their jobs hide them in the back for fear of violence as well.
Other points of information that are important:
Theres been a GoFundMe made thats raised as of posting this a total of $8,875,820
The prime minister has also clearly stated that he is afraid the protest could turn to violence at any moment
Many MPs have been warned of security risks
The leader of canada's conservative party has gone to meet with protesters which shows how chummy conservatives in Canada have become with the far right
Donald Trump has voice his support of the Freedom Convoy and as such many far right americans have also joined the protest
Many experts say that the language being used to discuss the events online is turning rather dangerous
A large part of Ottawa's and Ontario in generals police force has been deployed out of outright fear of what may go down
So yeah shits hitting the fan in Canada. If you want live updates @allthecanadianpolitics has been posting about it.
