Canada: day of anger and mobilization of truckers opposed to health measures
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Trucks block Ottawa streets to protest health measures.
Dave Chan AFP
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Several demonstrations by truck drivers and supporters opposed to sanitary measures are taking place today in Canada.
It's been more than a week since a few hundred drivers parked their trucks around the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.
They loudly demand the end of the mandatory vaccination passport when they return to Canada, much to the displeasure of downtown residents tired of the incessant horns.
Other demonstrators join them today.
Another rally is also planned in Toronto, the largest Canadian city, as well as in Quebec City.
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With our correspondent in Quebec,
Pascale Guéricolas
At the head of a small group of demonstrators, already installed near Parliament, one of the organizers accuses the journalists present of not talking about the extent of the road convoy en route to Quebec: "
When we came from the north coast, all the little villages, you haven't seen that!
And you have especially not published it!
You hide all that!
You are accomplices!
»
End of health measures demanded
Like several motorists, who parade while honking in front of Parliament, this sexagenarian calls for the end of sanitary measures.
She is tired of seeing the unvaccinated excluded from the rest of society: “
We are tired of being divided.
We are here together to demonstrate.
We don't want the health pass anymore.
We don't find it legitimate.
»
"
It's like you have a lot of bombs waiting to go off
"
A little further on, a neighborhood resident, who is clearing snow from her car, worries about the explosive potential of the demonstration: “
It's like the climax of a series of frustrations that have found a focus, the movement of truckers.
It's like you have a lot of bombs waiting to go off.
That is also possible
”.
No one knows for the moment the extent that this discontent movement will take in Quebec.
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To read also: Canada: truck drivers opposed to vaccination still block Ottawa
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