A caravan of vehicles of protesters who oppose measures to contain the COVID-19 is obstructing traffic around the Ottawa international airport in Canada, according to authorities on Thursday morning.
Videos of the protest posted online by protesters themselves show dozens of cars, many adorned with Canadian flags and honking their horns, slowly driving past airport terminals.
At the same time, groups of truckers continue to block, for the fourth consecutive day, the Ambassador Bridge that connects Canada with the United States between the towns of Windsor (Canada) and Detroit (United States).
The bridge blockade is causing serious economic damage to the two countries, and has forced automakers Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, and Toyota to cut production at several factories.
In Manitoba, in central Canada, and in Alberta, in the west, anti-vaccine groups and policies to combat COVID also maintain blockades at two other border crossings.
The Ottawa Police also denounced today the attempted sabotage of the 911 emergency telephone.
On Twitter, the Ottawa Police noted that they had received information of a “concerted attempt to flood” the emergency line with useless calls, and recalled that it is a crime to try to sabotage the phone.
At the same time, the occupation of downtown Ottawa by anti-vaccine and anti-pandemic mandate groups today enters its thirteenth day with no sign of resolution.
More than 400 heavy trucks and hundreds of people continue to block the streets surrounding the Parliament of Canada without the authorities being able to expel the protesters.
The Ottawa Police reported today that they had managed to get a dozen trucks to leave a residential area of the city, while recalling that blocking the streets is a criminal offense, and that the owners of the vehicles can be arrested.
But the protesters reiterated that they will not abandon the occupation until all measures taken to contain the pandemic are rescinded, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government resigns.