How the truckers' protests divided Canada
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The Times
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Last weekend police swept through Ottawa, clearing a settlement of protestors. For three weeks, truck drivers from all over the country gathered in the Canadian capital. They were furious with covid laws, and with Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. With the protests gone, where does that anger go? And with American truckers planning to shut down Washington D.C. next week, how far has this movement spread?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Take your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:39.0 | Saturdays in downtown Ottawa are normally a pretty sedate affair, but the last few weeks have |
| 0:47.5 | been anything but normal. |
| 0:49.7 | This was the moment police moved in to take back control of Ottawa's streets, protesters |
| 0:55.7 | have occupied the area outside Parliament for nearly three weeks. |
| 1:02.6 | By mid afternoon, at least 70 people have been arrested, as police closed in on the |
| 1:07.9 | core of demonstrators who refuse to leave. |
| 1:15.1 | Police say they'll work around the clock to clear the city's downtown area. |
| 1:22.4 | Last weekend, police swept through the city, clearing a settlement of protesters. |
| 1:28.0 | For three weeks, truck drivers from all over the country had descended on the Canadian |
| 1:33.8 | capital to rail against Covid restrictions. |
| 1:38.1 | The freedom convoy, as they call themselves, occupied the city centre with street parties |
| 1:44.6 | and a chorus of honking day and night. |
| 1:52.0 | They were furious with Canada's Covid laws and with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. |
| 2:00.8 | So with the protests now gone, where does that anger go? |
| 2:05.9 | Walls Trudeau's approach to clearing them, too heavy-handed. |
| 2:09.9 | In the past few days, we've been communicating directly with the unlawful protesters. |
| 2:14.4 | We've told them they must leave and we've warned them the consequences of disobeying |
| 2:18.4 | these rules. |
| 2:19.4 | If it looks like something at a Belarus, it is, but it's happening right here in North America. |
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