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Canadian truckers want to enter politics

2022-02-10T16:17:16.984Z


The truck drivers of the "Freedom Convoy", who multiply the blockages to demand the lifting of the vaccination obligation, accumulate support.


Montreal

No, anti-vax truckers aren't nice, according to a recent Canadian poll.

Over 65% of Canadians disapprove of the blockade of the capital, Ottawa, by the Freedom Convoy.

After the cities of Quebec, Toronto and Edmonton, the "truckers" (road) block the Ambassador Bridge which connects Detroit, in the United States, to Windsor, in Canada.

It is the busiest bridge between the two countries.

Nearly a quarter of the $2.4 billion in goods that pass between them every day passes through this bridge.

More than 10,000 trucks enter Windsor daily.

The small border crossing of Coutts, Alberta, is also regularly blocked.

Despite the police roadblocks that prevent them from receiving diesel, the truckers assured that they had enough fuel to last ten days.

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Source: lefigaro

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