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FigaroVox week - What is the "freedom convoy" the name of?

2022-02-11T20:17:20.752Z


Find the FigaroVox selection every Saturday: decryptions, points of view and controversies. Dear subscribers, On the last weekend of January, downtown Ottawa, Canada's federal capital, was paralyzed by truckers demanding the lifting of health measures in the country. At the origin of this movement, small conspiratorial groups, but also ordinary citizens, authentic opponents of the restrictions of freedoms linked to the health policy of the government of Justin Trudeau. " If the 'convoy


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On the last weekend of January, downtown Ottawa, Canada's federal capital, was paralyzed by truckers demanding the lifting of health measures in the country.

At the origin of this movement, small conspiratorial groups, but also ordinary citizens, authentic opponents of the restrictions of freedoms linked to the health policy of the government of Justin Trudeau.

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If the 'convoy for freedom' was able to mobilize several thousand people, and attract many supporters on its way to Ottawa, it is because the social divide is very real, just like the fed up at the place of sanitary measures

”, explains the Quebec essayist Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard on FigaroVox.

However, about ten days later, a similar mobilization was organized in France.

On February 9, a first column of vehicles left Nice to reach Paris this Friday the 11th. Joined the drivers by demonstrators displaying a logo with two flags…

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Source: lefigaro

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