Truckers Defy Trudeau's Crackdown as Canada Prepares to Freeze Assets
Protesters remain in Ottawa even as police tries to get them to leave and an emergency law means they risk having bank accounts frozen and trucks impounded.
Truckers who have paralyzed Canada's capital and gripped the attention of Elon Musk in their outcry against vaccine mandates are ready to risk their trucks being impounded and bank accounts frozen in defiance of Justin Trudeau's effort to clear protests with an emergency law.
Harold Jonker, a co-owner of Jonker Trucking in Ontario’s Niagara region, had 10 of the firm's trucks occupying the streets of Ottawa Thursday and said he an other protesters will not be deterred by the powers invoked by the prime minister, who has prohibited demonstrations around Ottawa’s parliamentary precinct and instructed banks to cut off financial services to anyone involved in the blockade.