In January and February of 2022 Canada saw protests in its capital city, Ottawa, and in cities around the country. The protesters opposed government vaccine mandates and public health measures to combat COVID-19. The core of the protesters started out as truckers, but many other people joined.
Convoys of trucks and other vehicles formed and drove across the country, arriving in Ottawa where they stayed for several weeks in the downtown area around the Parliament building. There were similar protests in many other parts of Canada. The protesters believed that it should be an individual choice whether to get vaccinated or not and the government should not require people to do so. Eventually police cleared away the demonstrators in Ottawa and elsewhere and made arrests.
Far right
鈥淭he group of people whose political views are most conservative鈥� (Merriam Webster, 2022)
Vaccine Hesitancy
鈥淭he SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy concluded that vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite availability of vaccination services鈥� (MacDonald, 2015, p. 4161).
Immunization
鈥淭he process of being made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine. It implies that you have had an immune response鈥� (CDC, 2020).
Freedom Convoy
A group of truckers and their supporters who protested 鈥淐OVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.鈥� The protest started over anger directed at a vaccine mandate beginning in January 2022 on cross-border truckers but grew as it got 鈥渟upport from anti-vaccine mandate groups鈥� (Woods and Pringle, 2022)
Blockade Protests
A series of protests across Canada that involved truck drivers and other supporters who opposed vaccine mandates and other covid-19 public health rules. The protests occurred in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. They blocked border crossings with the US and blockaded the Ambassador Bridge in Ontario an important trade link to the United States.
Canada鈥檚 Emergencies Act
鈥淭he Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in the 1980s, defines a national emergency as a temporary 鈥榰rgent and critical situation鈥� that 鈥榮eriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.鈥� The act gives special powers to respond to emergency scenarios affecting public welfare (natural disasters, disease outbreaks), public order (civil unrest), international emergencies or war emergencies. It grants cabinet the ability to 鈥榯ake special temporary measures that may not be appropriate in normal times鈥� to cope with an 鈥榰rgent and critical situation鈥� and the resulting fallout. It is still subject to the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms鈥� (Tunney, 2022).
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