‘Disconnected and disempowered’: border blockades suggest growing populist threat in Canada, say politicos

As the Alberta RCMP seized a weapons cache and the prime minister invokes the Emergencies Act, one politico says Canadians who dismissed the dangers of protesters are being given a 'wake-up call.'
While anti-vaccine mandate protests and blockades at several border crossings between Canada and the U.S. are having "deleterious" impacts on the economy, politicos say they are also an indication of a populist, far-right movement becoming bolder in Canada. "I don't like the discourse about Canada ...

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