Canadian trucker strike6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Police in Ottawa were optimistic they could gain control in the coming days after Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Monday. In Ottawa, the bumper-to-bumper demonstrations by the so-called Freedom Convoy have infuriated many residents, who have complained of being harassed and intimidated on the clogged streets. border, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they expected the last remaining demonstrators to leave the site at Emerson, Manitoba, opposite North Dakota, by early Wednesday afternoon, with the Mounties escorting the vehicles out. President Joe Biden calling on them to end their nations’ requirements that truckers crossing the border be vaccinated. governors sent a letter to Trudeau and U.S. The protests have drawn support from right-wing extremists and have been cheered on and received donations from conservatives in the U.S., triggering complaints in some quarters about America being a bad influence on Canada.Īs the crisis appeared to heat up in Ottawa, the premiers of two Canadian provinces and 16 U.S. Since late January, protesters in trucks and other vehicles have jammed the streets of the capital and obstructed border crossings, decrying vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers and other COVID-19 precautions and condemning Trudeau’s Liberal government. The warnings came just days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the emergency law. Marie Eye, of Victoriaville, Quebec, who has been making soup for the protesters, said the warnings were “just a piece of paper” and doubted police had the manpower to remove the rigs or the protesters. “If it means that I need to go to prison, if I need to be fined in order to allow freedom to be restored in this country - millions of people have given far more for their freedom,” said David Paisley, who traveled to Ottawa with a friend who is a truck driver. But protest leaders braced for action on Wednesday. There was no immediate word from police on when or if they might move in to clear the hundreds trucks by force. Protesters sat in their trucks and defiantly honked their horns in a chorus that echoed loudly downtown.Īt least one trucker pulled away from Parliament Hill. Some truckers ripped up the order, and one protester shouted, “I will never go home!” Some threw the warning into a toilet put out on the street. Last week U.S.-Canada truck blockade extends to North Dakota borderĪuthorities began handing out notices and threatening arrests Wednesday near the Parliament building where the biggest group of protesters is entrenched.Īuthorities in yellow “police liaison” vests went from rig to rig, knocking on the doors of the trucks parked outside Parliament, to serve notice to the truckers that they could also lose their licenses and see their vehicles seized under Canada’s Emergencies Act. ![]() Ontario Declares emergency over truck blockades.Processed foods become so much more appealing when produce is hit with higher prices, which most of the time disadvantages lower income people. ![]() “Our clientele is mixed, some can adjust but others suffer. “We’re trying to be as reasonable or fair with our pricing but grocery stores like us don’t make a lot so there’s not a lot of margin to give up,” he said. He said the situation is putting even more pressure on his most vulnerable customers and forcing many to choose between health and cost as supply issues lead to price increases. Plus, the core of our business, about 80 percent, is around fresh departments such as bread, meat, produce, which have a short shelf-life.” ![]() “For independent grocers, a lot of us differentiate on our fresh products, 37 percent of our store sales come from produce. Bigger suppliers have budget and power that we don’t, which could affect our ability to get products,” Trimarchi said. “The risk as an independent is that we get treated as the bottom of the barrel. ![]()
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