The mayor of Canada’s capital declared a state of emergency Sunday and a former U.S. ambassador to Canada said groups in the U.S. must stop interfering in the domestic affairs of America’s neighbor as protesters opposed to COVID-19 restrictions continued to paralyze Ottawa’s downtown.
Thousands of protesters descended in Ottawa again on the weekend, joining a hundred who remained since last weekend.
The “freedom truck convoy” in part protested mandatory vaccines for truckers entering Canada. Canadian RV associations earlier expressed concern over the requirement.
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