The bridge in Canada where thousands of semitruck drivers have camped out in a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates may reopen Sunday night, according to officials.
, where several hundred protesters planted themselves about 100 feet from the foot of the entry to the bridge, even as all of the trucks left the scene throughout the day in the face of a police crackdown.
A judge had ordered Friday that the protesters disperse after the demonstrations interrupted the flow of goods between the two countries, especially crippling the auto industry on both sides of the border.Truck drivers and others protest COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in Ottawa, Ontario, on, Feb. 12, 2022."Today, our national economic crisis at the Ambassador bridge came to an end," Dilkens wrote in a statement.
"As Canadians, there is more that unites us, than divides us and we must all find the resolve to approach those who hold different views with tolerance and respect," Dilkens said."Illegal acts, blockades and hate speech must not be tolerated and should be denounced."Police gather to clear protestors against Covid-19 vaccine mandates who blocked the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on Feb. 13, 2022.
Thousands of truckers have been protesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for weeks as part of what is being called the"Freedom Convoy." The number of demonstrators reached as many as 4,000 over the weekend. The protests began in Canada's capital city last month after truckers began protesting the requirement for them to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to cross the U.S.-Canada border.there was a probability that some trucker protests could happen Sunday near Inglewood, California, where Super Bowl LVI is to take place. However, the DHS, which also acknowledged online chatter about truckers traveling from California to Washington, D.C.
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