Wall Street Journal: “Police in Ottawa, Ontario, are weighing military help or a court order to bring an end to a weeklong protest against vaccine mandates that has forced businesses to close, frayed residents’ nerves and strangled swaths of the city’s core.”
“The protests, led by truckers and their supporters, have clogged Ottawa traffic and disrupted residents’ daily lives. Police said this week their intelligence indicates that more truckers and citizens, perhaps in the tens of thousands, are headed toward Ottawa this weekend. City politicians say the protest, which began Jan. 28, has morphed into an occupation.”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is quoted by the Associated Press: “It’s not a protest anymore. It’s become an occupation. It’s time for this to come to an end.”
Donald Trump released a statement backing the protest-turned-occupation now entering its second week in Canada’s capital.
