Now Canada is a mess of porridge! Against mandatory vaccination, a demonstration broke out in the country, this time featuring truck drivers. As early as the beginning of February, a bunch of trucks, pickups, RVs and other large vehicles came and went, collectively besieging the Ottawa Houses of Parliament, honking the horn before dawn, flashing lights in the dark, and drivers got out of the car to play "street hockey" when bored.
The key is that Trump is not too big, jumped out to support Canada's "free motorcade", provoked Canadians to scold, blamed the demonstration on the United States, saying that before Trump was in office, the United States frequent outbreaks of anti-vaccine activities, now Canada is just a sample, and the country's vaccination completion rate is close to 80%, higher than the United States 64%, will not be what it is now.
It is understood that last year, the United States promulgated new epidemic prevention regulations, requiring Canadian truck drivers entering the United States to be compulsorily vaccinated, which triggered strong dissatisfaction among these truck drivers. This year, Canada also requires truck drivers traveling to and from the United States and Canada to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Well, this immediately angered Canada's free-spirited, uninhibited truck drivers, and the storm followed.
However, Canadian officials also admitted that the demonstration was also fueled by the United States, for example, the well-known crowdfunding platform in the United States raised more than 10 million Canadian dollars for Canada's "free motorcade" and successfully distributed 1 million Canadian dollars to protesters. Therefore, many people have called on Canada to investigate and rectify it well.
Unexpectedly, before Canada could strike, the United States could not sit still. More than a decade later, the demonstrations, far from stopping, intensified, with truck drivers shifting the main battlefield from the Parliament Building in Canada's Ottawa to a transnational bridge called the Ambassador Bridge along the U.S.-Canada border.
Directly frightened the US White House to make an urgent statement, saying that Canadian truck drivers have crossed the line and the protests are out of scope. According to the data, the Ambassador Bridge is one of the busiest trade routes between the United States and Canada, more than a quarter of the goods trade between the two countries need to pass through this bridge, under normal circumstances, the Ambassador Bridge has 40,000 commuters and tourists, 8,000 trucks, and more than 300 million US dollars (about 1.9 billion yuan) worth of goods passing through every day.
The main artery of U.S.-Canada trade is blocked, and Biden is also very worried, afraid that it will make the already tight supply chain worse, hurt the auto industry and agriculture, and affect the recovery of the US economy.
The Bank of Canada has also warned that if the "free fleet" continues, the country's economy will only get worse. Toyota motor vehicles said its auto plant in Ontario, Canada, had stopped production due to the "free fleet" congestion.
Not only the United States and Canada panicked, but also Protests in Australia, New Zealand, France and other countries to emulate the "free motorcade" lasted for many days, causing headaches for these Western countries.
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