The coldest, hardest pill to swallow about Canada's right-wing trucker blockade

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Sunday, the Ambassador Bridge on the U.S.-Canada border between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, was reopened after a weeklong protest, in which a handful of right-wing fanatics had been blocking the bridge and holding up some $355 million in goods in protest against a vaccine mandate for the trucking industry.

These events show that when law enforcement is genuinely needed to quash a far-right insurgency, it is timid and reluctant to do anything — a dangerous precedent to set indeed.

Protesters had taken over another nearby crossing into Sarnia, and one in Alberta, as well. As a result, Ford, Toyota, Stellantis and Honda idled some six Canadian car factories for several days, with knock-on effects creating even more snarls in supply chains. With one of Canada's major cities paralyzed, and three key economic arteries between it and the world's mightiest empire clogged, a severe shortage of new cars has been jacking up inflation and thus tanking President Joe Biden's approval rating.

But these protests are just the visible part of a larger right-wing occupation movement, and indicative of a worrying anti-government trend. And equally as worrying is how law enforcement on both sides of the border have responded.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The "Damned if I do, damned if I don't" scenario.

Looks like the RWNJs want Biden to look like a tyrant breaking up American's 1st Amendment right to protest as they interrupt chains and close factories that need parts, etc.

[PortTack]

2. The trucker convoy was not only very unpopular in Canada, but worldwide

I don’t think it was a win for the right at all.

[Hortensis]

4. Agree. Very unpopular here also. Plus, Ottowa's experience has been a lesson

taken by other governments. Using trucks to bring transport to a stop in Canada and France has eliminated what would have been huge advantage of suprise for anti-government plotters elsewhere, and it taught governments to recognize the potential for great disruption, to monitor for signs of development, and to develop preemptive plans for stopping them, including the necessity of faster, earlier and much more definitive action.

[PortTack]

5. On the learning curve!

[Hortensis]

6. Including that this pop quiz could be worth big points on the final. :)

In a real sense, it looks like this warfare tactic was squandered. Not that it won't be used again; but if strategically optimized, disruption created by deployment of the volunteer drivers of big trucks could be multiplied by many orders of magnitude over this. And that should be a lot less possible now.

[qallunat]

3. Good Take on the Situation

Most Ottawa residents are very pissed-off. Myself included.

[3Hotdogs]

7. To me, the takeaway is the failure of police response. The better news,

the police chief resigned. - I'm sure that it was not a voluntary resignation.