I appreciate certain pro Trump Americans have a distinct view about vaccines and protesters. I do . However trying to suggest this display has done anything politically is a projection.
Here is a neutral article with no vested political interest in what has happened:
The main body of protesters continued a diesel-rumbling siege of Parliament Hill, igniting fire pits on city streets and sounding truck horns at all hours, driving local residents to despair.
www.americamagazine.org
The article points out something you might want to keep in mind and I quote:
"Ironically, the Freedom Convoy has formed in a country where the population has largely obeyed pandemic precautions.
Nearly 89 percent of adult Canadians have been fully vaccinated, including about
90 percent of Canadian truckers. Canadians largely supported curfews, lockdowns and vaccine mandates throughout the pandemic—at least until the Omicron variant arrived."
The frustration you see started with a general anger that after3 years we seem no further ahead. It was a general anger not specific at having to take the shots or even stay at home. It was an anger about how nothing seems to have changed and the messages continue to change.
The gathering started with a minority of truck drivers who drive back and forth across the border and do not want to take shots. They were then joined by a larger group of angry unemployed people with many causes some not even related to the vaccine.
The people now left behind represent specific extremist groups many white nationalists who carried Nazi flags or Confederate flags and were protesting the country was becoming too brown.
The people who urinated on the memorials to soldiers who died or who defecated on Capital Hill, bullied homeless people. bullied people in malls, desecrated the Terry Fix statute please understand were not interested in rational discourse. They were an angry mob.
The vast majority of truckers and trucking associations have zero problem with drivers moving across borders having proper vaccines.
The last thing the trucking industry wants is truck drivers getting sick and unable to deliver vital supplies in the supply chain that keeps our economy going.
I also want to stress this which is why I may sound angry, the people at the rally in Ottawa deliberately have endangered people in hospitals blocking health care professionals from going to work and yelling and screaming at them. That is bullshit.
The health care professionals, paramedic, police, fire, must be able to do their jobs to save and protect lives and to block them from doing this is absolutely reprehensible. In fact what makes me angry is that those front line health and first line responders have been working overtime for over 2 years, suffering from stress and burn out to keep people clean, safe, alive. Those are the people we should have concern about as well as the vulnerable people who could needlessly die either being exposed to Covid 19, or who have other illnesses they can not treat because the doctors have been called away to treat Covid 19 cases with patients who refused to take the shot and now take up valuable hospital resources.
I have no time of day for selfish, self centered idiots with an attitude they everyone else can phack off only their immediate needs are relevant. Have a nice day and let me say Canadians are polite but up to a point.