‘Incredibly scary’: How Canada’s trucker convoy protest is galvanizing the U.S. far right
Global News
Former U.S. president Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are among those who have voiced support for the protest in Ottawa.
The trucker convoy protest against COVID-19 measures that has brought Canada’s national capital to a standstill for the past 11 days is garnering growing interest across the border in the United States.
Since Feb. 28, the so-called “Freedom Convoy” has been parked around Parliament Hill, honking horns and disrupting traffic in Ottawa’s downtown core.
Many in the hundreds of vehicles have vowed to stay until all COVID-19 restrictions, including mask and vaccination mandates, are lifted.
While demonstrations in solidarity with the truckers have been staged across the country, the convoy protest movement has also been endorsed by several right-wing American politicians and is getting a lot of airtime on conservative U.S. news channels.
Among those who have voiced support for the protest movement is former president Donald Trump, who was a vocal critic of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns during his own presidency.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and attorneys general in Florida, Texas, West Virginia and Louisiana — all Republicans — have also thrown their weight behind the Canadian truckers.
Bruce Heyman, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said it was “wholly inappropriate” for U.S. senators, governors and states’ attorneys general to suggest support of the trucker movement and interfere with Canada’s domestic affairs.
“It’s so incredibly scary and disappointing,” he told Global News in an interview from Chicago.
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