FOG BLOG CANADA LOG: OUT OF CONTROL PROTESTS ENTERS 2ND WEEK WITH BORDER CROSSINGS BLOCKED BY TRUCKS

Canada Protests Live Updates: Truck Blockade at U.S.-Canada Border Threatens Busiest Link Between the Countries...The blockade could undermine the auto industry, which relies on the movement of components across the border to keep factories humming in Ontario and the Midwestern United States.

Here’s what you need to know:

Truck blockade at U.S.-Canada border could undermine supply chains for the auto industry.
Police face new obstacles in dismantling protest site.
Some critics call for Justin Trudeau to channel his father and be more forceful.
Tow truck operators are turning down Ottawa’s calls for help.
G.M. says Canada protests and bridge closure have not hampered its operations.As protest paralyzes Canada’s capital, far-right activists abroad embrace it.
Protests in Canada inspire copycat convoys in Australia and New Zealand.
A timeline of the protests...As Canada’s capital remained paralyzed by nearly two weeks of protests against pandemic measures, a new road blockade effectively cut off Canada’s busiest link to the United States, threatening to undermine a significant sector of the country’s economy.

While smaller than the protests that have buffeted Ottawa’s downtown, the new protest targets the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit. The bridge is a vital link for the automobile industry, which relies on a constant shuttling of parts and components across the border to keep factories humming in Ontario and the Midwestern United States.

The heavy trucks and private vehicles have blocked traffic destined for Canada. On Tuesday morning the Canada Border Services Agency listed the bridge as “temporarily closed.” But Windsor Police said on Twitter that traffic was again moving to the United States through a secondary entrance to the bridge.Most of the trucks in the Windsor protest were covered with flags and posters denouncing vaccine mandates and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau himself had his own message for the protesters in the national capital, whom he accused of undermining Canadian democracy: “It has to stop.”

Speaking to the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday night, the prime minister said the protests, which began in opposition to Covid-19 restrictions, were harassing Ottawa residents “in their own neighborhoods.”

They are “trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens’ daily lives,” he said.