WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Canada's political earthquake
by Stuart Thomson
| February 17, 2022 11:00 PM
Take a walk around downtown Ottawa, and you’ll find nearly 400 trucks and RVs blocking the main roads of Canada’s capital city. You’ll see a hundred protesters or thousands of protesters, depending on the day.
There’s a sauna; there are games for children. You might come across the row of port-a-potties that was installed by one of the protesters. There’s a bouncy castle and a stage for live music.
You’ll likely see flags that say “F*** Trudeau,” referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and you may even see one of the swastika-stamped Canadian flags that were floating around in the early days of the protest.
If you went there in the first couple of weeks, you would have heard nonstop, ear-piercing honking from the trucks and massive air horns at all hours of the day. For the sanity of Ottawa’s residents, a court injunction temporarily put a stop to that.
At the time of writing, people there whisper about when police will “make a move” to clear out the demonstrators. Nobody knows the answer — including, it seems, officers themselves. Ottawa’s police chief just resigned this week after nearly three weeks of occupation and growing fury from the city’s residents.
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