National Post: 'This has all the marks of a protest that is a real protest, a full flare emerging from long-simmering discontent, provoked by the government’s vaccination mandate and originally spurred by non-vaccinated truckers, but which even in these early days has taken on a different, far wider significance, a significance beyond that of a simple “one-issue” protest.
'Its destination and target is Ottawa. And I am sure it was not intentional — and this is the nature of a genuine populist movement — but the truckers convoy is emerging as a proxy for the far more general anxieties and, let me call it “unsettlement” of a great sweep of the Canadian population.''
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