The one major innovation hereis, it seems that everyone figured out they can use trucks to disrupt the country when they don't like the government's policies. It will also depend a lot on what police and d c do, right? If they can stop this convoy from showing up in washington and sort of thwarting and shorten circuiting those efforts, then maybe this innovation isn't so great. Maybe this is more f a failure of the outawa police than anything else. But if the convoy a d c makes it to the capital, and they decide to embark on their own occupation of the city, well, this may kick off a method of protest that isn't going away.
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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