The trucks have left Parliament Hill. The sleepy Canadian capital of Ottawa is quiet once again. But for three weeks something happened outside the seat of the national government, a movement that shook the benches of that austere body and led to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealing himself as an enemy of basic democratic freedoms.
Over the weekend Ottawa police, apparently acting under the directive of Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, swept through the crowd of protesters, injuring some, and ending a demonstration that became a global symbol for those ready to abandon Covid restrictions and get life back to normal.
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