Commentary The most fascinating aspect of the Canadian truckers’ massive protest in Ottawa against vaccine mandates, now two weeks into the making, is the panic it has engendered among progressive politicians and the mainstream press. There’s this frantic Feb. 9 headline from the BBC: “Truckers Block Vital Canada-US Border Crossing.” (That’s the Ambassador Bridge across the Detroit River linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, and the conduit of about 25 percent of Canadian–U.S. trade.). There’s the Guardian on Feb. 8, blaming the cross-country convoy of anywhere from 500 to 1,000 trucks large and small, on mystery conspirators from—hold your breath—QAnon: or “a global network of highly organized far-right groups and amplified by Facebook’s misinformation machine,” as one particularly fraught Guardian columnist put it. Or how about this from the New York Times? “One day after the police chief in Canada’s capital said his city was under ‘siege’ by thousands of truckers …
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