Canadian truckers were tied up in the capital city of Ottawa over the weekend in protest over the government’s vaccine mandates. The trucks were joined by thousands of demonstrators and formed a “so-called freedom convoy” blocking the streets around Canada’s parliament building. The truckers are complaining about a cross-border covid vaccine mandate and are pushing to end all vaccine mandates nationwide. The mandate went into effect for truckers on January 15th.  Around 90% of Canada’s 120,000 cross-border truckers are vaccinated. The percentage of truck drivers who’ve received the shot corresponds to Canada’s population, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the protestors a “small fringe minority”. Saturday, Trudeau and his family left the city over safety concerns, and after two of the prime minister’s three children tested positive for covid. The whole narrative around COVID unravels as the contradictions between what is said versus what is done only intensifies while so many people have lost so much over the past couple of years, from loved ones and good health to economic sustenance.

The Canadian mandate requires truck drivers from the United States to present proof of…