Canada Hit Out At "Foreign interference" Over Anti-Vax Truckers' Protests
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The so-called "Freedom Convoy" started with truckers protesting against mandatory Covid vaccines to cross the US border.
Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday hit out at "foreign interference" that she said was fuelling the trucker-led protests against coronavirus curbs that have clogged the capital for weeks.
"My biggest concern as foreign affairs minister is the foreign interference that is happening in the convoy we're seeing in Canada right now -- this information campaign, where it comes from, the financing of it where it comes from," she told the Munich Security Conference.
While noting that there are Canadians protesting peacefully, "there are also within the truckers convoy some elements that are extremely preoccupying and that led to also criminal charges particularly at the... border between the US and Canada".
Asked if the foreign interference she was referring to related to US former president Donald Trump, she said she "won't point out somebody in particular".
