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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Canada truckers protest it has to stop pm justin trudeau says | History Defined

Truckers and their supporters are protesting COVID vaccine mandates in Ottawa [Patrick Doyle/Reuters]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is demanding an end to a protest by hundreds of truckers that has paralysed the capital, as local authorities called for federal support.

The so-called “Freedom Convoy” and their supporters began arriving in Ottawa late in January to denounce an order requiring truckers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to cross Canada’s land border with the United States.

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