US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ROB GILLIES and TOM KRISHER

TORONTO (AP) — The Biden administration urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Thursday to use its federal powers to end the truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, as the bumper-to-bumper demonstration forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production.

For the fourth straight day, scores of truckers taking part in what they dubbed the Freedom Convoy blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products between the two countries.

The White House said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke with their Canadian counterparts and urged them to help resolve the standoff.

Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Royal Canadian Mounted Police reinforcements are being sent to Windsor, Ottawa and Coutts, Alberta where another border blockade is happening.



Trucks, are parked in front of the Chateau Laurier as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions continue in Ottawa, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. (Justin Tang /The Canadian Press via AP)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-detroit-canada-20f273b32bfa8ef695fdabcc7e11321e

[BootinUp]

1. confiscate the vehicles. nt

[lagomorph777]

12. 100% Sell them to recoup the costs of cleaning up the mess...

...and the costs of incarcerating the perps.

[SheltieLover]

2. Lock them up, confisgate vehicles

And charge for child endangerment.

Then Ford & others can sue them all for disrupting business.

Take every penny they have.

[DownriverDem]

3. Follow President Truman

who sent in the Army to end the railroad strike.

[mahannah]

4. Can't Biden use federal powers to end bridge block?

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

6. No

The blockade isn't in the US, it's in Canada.

[mahannah]

10. The Ambassador Bridge is international

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

11. Its still on the Canadian side of it

So its Canada's jurisdiction.

[L. Coyote]

5. The trucker blockade is "a fringe movement protesting its own defeat."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[PatSeg]

7. Almost like a rebellion looking for a cause

Some people just thrive on being angry. Any reason will do. These are the "What the hell are you looking at" people you encounter in neighborhood taverns. Just itching for a fight.

[lagomorph777]

13. Rebels without a clue...

...that they are Putin's pawns.

[PatSeg]

20. I can picture Putin rubbing his hands

and laughing maniacally like the dastardly villain in Saturday morning cartoons. I'm sure his evil plan has exceeded even his expectations.

[melm00se]

8. You know

some of the comments expressed here are really no different than the pro-establishment comments from the 1960s objecting to acts of civil disobedience.

[L. Coyote]

9. Bus boycott versus shutting down a city, one is fine and the other objectionable.

Interfering with the rights of others to say your rights are interfered with, not the same as protesting.

[lagomorph777]

15. Civil disobedience in the 1960s was a movement for justice and equality.

This is more like a bowel movement. Dirty. Selfish. Anti decency.

[PatSeg]

21. "More like a bowel movement"

[BootinUp]

17. That's a lazy comparison don't ya think?

[Polybius]

18. I'm not a fan of any civil disobedience that blocks traffic

When the left did it in 2020, I hated it just as much.

[NYC Liberal]

19. But even then, those protests usually only blocked traffic for a short time.

An hour or two. They didn’t blockade a major international trade route for a week.

[bluestarone]

14. I think Joe is sending signals here

DO NOT try this in the U.S.A.!!

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Although obviously not the same Province nor city

Montreal had no problem tear-gassing BLM protestors -



https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/experts-worry-use-of-tear-gas-at-recent-protests-in-montreal-could-increase-spread-of-covid-19-1.4976712

I wonder why?