The trucker convoy in canada struck such a chord that you're now going to be seeing, potentially, these similar protests happening around the world. I think there is this innovation that i'm not sure the canadian organizers realize would be effective until they did it. If ten thousand people had descended on ottawa, no one would have blinked. It's worth noting that the canadian occupiers have already been supereffective. Four provincial periods actually now have announced an end to some of ther vacine mandates in their vaccine passport system. They they've essentially won. This has been a coup for them, right? This has worked for them.
A convoy of truckers angry over Covid-19 mandates is disrupting life in Canada’s capital city. Their movement is gaining traction in cities around the globe.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh with Haleema Shah and Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Richard Sima with Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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