{"id":1285206,"date":"2022-02-09T12:39:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1285206"},"modified":"2022-02-09T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:39:23","slug":"left-blames-trump-americans-for-canadas-freedom-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-blames-trump-americans-for-canadas-freedom-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Blames Trump, Americans for Canada&#039;s &#039;Freedom Convoy&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-blames-trump-americans-for-canadas-freedom-convoy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1285206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump-smirking-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Canadian leftists and corporate media this week have begun denouncing the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d \u2013 a trucker-led protest against civil rights abuses in the name of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic \u2013 by associating it with former President Donald Trump, the \u201calt-right,\u201d and the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d movement refers to a series of protests in which truckers \u2013 who have been most onerously affected by interprovincial vaccine mandates and other coronavirus-related edicts \u2013 have used their vehicles to occupy cities and border crossings. The largest such protest is in Ottawa, the national capital, where thousands have convened to demand the federal government lift mandates. The main form of protest in Ottawa has been honking truck horns, resulting in a court injunction banning the use of car horns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the overwhelming numbers of protesters in Ottawa \u2013 and Toronto, Quebec, Vancouver, and crossings all along the southern border \u2013 police have reported very few incidents of violence, some of them directly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/ottawa-police-brutalize-78-year-old-man-for-honking\/\">caused<\/a> by police.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian left has begun to accuse the domestic movement of being associated with President Trump, disregarding his effusive campaign for vaccination and his role in implementing the first wave of lockdowns in the United States, as well as elevating celebrity doctor Anthony Fauci to household name status. At the top of the list of accusers is the head of the radical leftist New Democratic Party, Fidel Castro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejagmeetsingh\/status\/802734505920524289?lang=en\">sympathizer<\/a> Jagmeet Singh, who has attributed the popularity and success of the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d to \u201cTrumpism\u201d and \u201cforeign actors,\u201d without evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spread of Trumpism into Canada must be stopped,\u201d Singh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theJagmeetSingh\/status\/1491098260039208970\">declared<\/a> on Twitter, encouraging followers to join his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndp.ca\/stop-us-interference?source=20220207_SOC_NEWS_1_AYN_TW_NDP_EN_ALL&amp;utm_medium=SOC&amp;utm_source=TW&amp;utm_campaign=News_ALL&amp;utm_content=20220207_SOC_NEWS_1_AYN_TW_NDP_EN_ALL\">campaign<\/a> to \u201cshut down U.S. interference\u201d within the convoy. His party\u2019s website blames, among others, Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Fox News, and the \u201calt-right\u201d \u2013 a term popularized in the 2016 election and largely out of use to describe any political group today \u2013 for Canadian anti-mandate protests.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for national leadership \u2013 the federal government must contact the US administration to shut down funding coming from the US,\u201d the New Democrats declare. \u201cAdd your name to protect our democracy by shutting down the flow of foreign funding coming from the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writing at the&nbsp;<em>Globe and Mail<\/em> on Tuesday, columnist Gary Mason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-the-alt-right-has-weaponized-freedom-to-undermine-democracy\/\">adopted<\/a> Singh\u2019s terminology and branded the Canadian civil rights protesters with the 2016 terminology \u201calt-right,\u201d describing the entire concept of \u201cfreedom\u201d as having been hijacked by extremists and no longer legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom, as an ideology, has been appropriated by the Make America Great Again (MAGA) wing of the U.S. Republican party. There is a strong MAGA fan base in this country, apparently with prominent supporters such as Candice Bergen, the new interim leader of the federal Conservative Party of Canada,\u201d Mason lamented. \u201cUndated photos circulating on social media appear to show Ms. Bergen sporting a camouflage MAGA hat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe word \u2018freedom\u2019 could be found on most signs being touted by the protesters. For many, it\u2019s a word that has become code for white-identity politics and the far-right\u2019s weapon of choice in the culture wars,\u201d Mason asserted.<\/p>\n<p>A similar column published last week by the&nbsp;<em>Edmonton Journal<\/em> compared the protests to the January 6 incident, which had no ties to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text ep-1 font-pratt\">\u201cIt became clear early on that the convoy\u2019s leadership was a partisan mix of anti-science, anti-vax, libertarian cranks, with a wholly overblown sense of their importance,\u201d the column <a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/opinion\/columnists\/opinion-are-conservatives-becoming-canadas-trump-republicans\">read<\/a>. \u201cCalling for a Jan. 6-like overthrow of the Canadian government, issuing pretentious twaddle in the form of demands, and carrying around Nazi or Confederate flags will not \u2014 fortunately \u2014 win the hearts and minds of most Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em> also seized on calling the trucker convoys \u201cTrumpian\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada is becoming an unlikely symbol of the radicalization of the anti-vaccination movement in the West that shares more than a few similarities with the militancy of Trump Republicans,\u201d the Jeff Bezos-owned publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/08\/trucker-freedom-convoy-radicalization-global\/\">claimed<\/a>. \u201cParallels to the Jan. 6 insurrection may be limited in Ottawa \u2014 protesters are not knocking down the doors of Parliament. But anti-government slogans flooding Ottawa\u2019s streets suggest similar grievances, even as their trucks serve as a flashback to the Trump caravans that menaced U.S. highways during the 2020 campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comparisons omit Trump\u2019s own history with coronavirus mandates, initially imposing the \u201ctwo weeks to slow the spread\u201d lockdown campaign and extending restrictions beyond Easter 2020 when he had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-52087113\">promised<\/a> the American people they would end. As president, Trump held daily televised events with Fauci and other public health officials, granting them a nearly unparalleled platform to impose their views, which align with the opponents of the \u201cFreedom Convoy.\u201d Trump eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-publicly-defends-covid-19-vaccines-slams-mandates\/story?id=81914671\">spoke out<\/a> against vaccine and mask mandates as they became politically unpalatable among conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>More recently,&nbsp;Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/03\/trump-i-developed-the-vaccine-when-everyone-said-it-wasnt-possible\/\">claimed<\/a> that he had personally \u201cdeveloped the vaccine,\u201d boasted about receiving a booster vaccine product dose, and has enthusiastically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2022-01-12\/trump-slams-politicians-who-wont-say-they-got-booster-shots\">urged<\/a> supporters to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian leftists and corporate media this week have begun denouncing the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d \u2013 a trucker-led protest against civil rights abuses in the name of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}