Welcome to Karma Cafe. There are no menus here. You get served what you deserve,” former Indian cricketer Venkatesh Prasad tweeted on Monday morning. His remark came a day after protests in Canada reached a crescendo, forcing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family to flee Ottawa and move to a ‘secret location’.
Earlier this month, Canada imposed a new vaccine mandate declaring that truckers entering the country had to be fully immunised from January 15 onwards. The new health mandate caused a massive uproar given that over 15% of truckers in Canada i.e. about 16,000, are still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
To protest against the mandate, a convoy of truckers descended on Canada’s capital, prompting police to prepare for the possibility of violence. Canadian Parliament’s Seargent-at-Arms suspected the demonstrators could show up at official homes. Politicians warned against escalating rhetoric linked to the demonstration.
