Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have left their home in the country’s capital and shifted to a secret location after a large-scale protest opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates converged on Parliament Hill, media reports said on Saturday.
What started as a protest dubbed as ‘Freedom Convoy’ against a vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers has grown into a large demonstration against the Trudeau government’s coronavirus regulations.
Thousands of truckers and other protesters converged in the Capital city on Saturday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Among the people were some kids with their kids, elderly and disabled people. Some even carried signs with aggressive and obscenity-laced rhetoric directed mostly at the Canadian prime minister, according to The Globe and Mail newspaper.
Some of the protesters were seen dancing on the prominent war memorial, prompting condemnation from Canada’s top soldier Gen. Wayne Eyre and Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand. The police are on high alert for possible violence after hundreds of protesters flooded into the parliamentary precinct, despite an extreme cold warning.I am sickened to see protesters dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and desecrate the National War Memorial. Generations of Canadians have fought and died for our rights, including free speech, but not this. Those involved should hang their heads in shame,” General Wayne Eyre tweeted.
