Hundreds of trucks and thousands of people blocked streets in central Ottawa, Canada, on Saturday, during a protest against the country’s coronavirus restrictions. People waved Canadian flags and held banners that read “Freedom.”
The demonstrations began when truck drivers organized a “Freedom Caravan” that drove from Vancouver in the west to Ottawa in the east. The reason was rules introduced in mid-January requiring drivers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to cross the border into the United States.
But thousands of people thronged the capital to support the truck drivers and to express their dissatisfaction with the government’s coronavirus restrictions in general.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has defended the demand for the vaccine, saying truck drivers are a minority whose views the population does not share. The Canadian Trucking Federation also distanced itself from the demonstration.
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