Canadian police have persuaded some demonstrators to move trucks they used to barricade a busy bridge crossing between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit. But protesters still blocked access as night approached, defying a judge's order to disperse.
at the bridge, in downtown Ottawa and elsewhere have reverberated outside the country, with similarly inspired convoys in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that truck protests may be in the works in the United States.
The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries, and auto plants on both sides have been forced to shut down or reduce production this week. The standoff came at a time when the auto industry is already struggling to maintain production in the face of pandemic-induced shortages of computer chips and other supply-chain disruptions.
, and demonstrators have set up portable toilets where Trudeau’s motorcade usually parks outside the prime minister’s office. Protesters on Saturday tore down a fence that authorities put up around the National War Memorial two weeks ago after demonstrators urinated on it. Some demonstrators later chanted “liberte,” French for “freedom,” as police watched.
While the protesters are decrying vaccine mandates for truckers and other COVID-19 restrictions, many of Canada’s anti-infection measures, such as mask rules and vaccine passports for getting into restaurants and theaters, are already falling away as the omicron surge levels off.
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