If I'm not mistaken, you are not Canadian. You don't live here. You haven't lived with the political or practical realities of this pandemic from a Canadian perspective, yet here you are, 'SPLAINING it to me as though I have no idea what I'm talking about.
I'm not "splaining" anything. I'm noting an inconsistency in rationale. It's a problem in the states too, to a lesser extent.
When did I ever engage in disruptive protesting over vaccine mandates? NEVER. I've got my two-and-a-booster and very glad to have them.
You just advocated jailing the people involved in the convoy. Your post backs government controls, lockdowns, and mandates that directly led to this situation. Those policy positions have failed on the merits of information we've had for a long time now. Regardless of that, it seems odd that you denounce truckers protesting to the point of advocating jail, yet don't seem to share that position for government officials that put forth lockdowns and mandates, sometimes against charter rights, without meeting scrutiny for the merit of those in court.
Hence, inconsistency in rationale.
Justin Trudeau is extremely patient with protesters, even when they block roads, bridges, other critical infrastructure, and interfere with public safety issues such as emergency vehicles, ensuring deliveries can be made - FFS, if I were among the people there who couldn't get pharmacy deliveries because some Western Canadian Reformacon was preventing the pharmacy driver from getting into my building, that is something that would put my life at risk. To put it this way: Some people are housebound for medical reasons that go beyond the pandemic. Some of these people are diabetic, which means they need insulin delivered. Insulin has to be taken on schedule, and it can't be in conditions where it will freeze. If one of these Western Canadian Reformacon anti-vaxxers are putting someone at this level of risk, yes, they should damn well be arrested.
If the government weren't pushing a medication without any merit for "emergency", this situation does not exist, and those "delivery" people you hold in disdain would be working for you and others, rather than protesting that government's policy.
People have varying reasons for joining this protest. Did you know that there was a GoFundMe campaign set up by a Western separatist party member supposedly to cover the truckers' expenses, and this money has grown to over $10 MILLION?
I am aware of the widespread public support for the convoy despite hostile/dishonest coverage of it, yes. It is up to gofundme to make sure the funds go to their intended recipients.
What these truckers don't seem to get is that it is POINTLESS to disrupt everything like this unless the American government is in agreement with the Canadian government. Removing the mandate from one country but not both is not going to allow unvaxxed truckers to cross over freely.
Not all trucking goes through the US...however Canada's government is more restrictive with its mandates, to my knowledge. Though it probably depends which US state you compare it against, too.
Despite the Biden administrations deliberate/malicious attempt to bypass the constitution (while stating such), there is no federal within the US, so it's more a question of the borders. This movement has started spreading to other countries, so I wouldn't rule out pressure on US government from them either.
And since at least some of them must realize that, it seems to me that their reason for joining the convoy isn't to cross the border into the U.S., it's just to do away with the mandate so they can go wherever they already can't go in Canada - restaurants, gyms, theatres...
I don't see any issue with that either. Canada's got such arbitrary nonsense on where you need papers vs not that it's pretty obvious the entire thing's hogwash. You can't go to the gym or to big box stores, but you can go to smaller box stores selling same things...even if there are more people/square foot in the latter.
Governments need to stop milking the pandemic for power. Their behavior is a farce, and that's why there's so much pushback.
There are no vaccine mandates in Brussels(or indeed in most of the EU), so we can assume that is just a pretext.
No mandates, or no government mandates? I could see workers protesting (more locally) over company mandates, too. But yeah, it's hard to parse a protest over mandates in a region without mandates. Surely they'll at least claim something else?
I would expect more in the countries that have them, especially knowing most of the rest of the EU does not.
