Canadian Truckers Lead ‘Freedom Convoy’ To Ottawa To Protest Vaxx Mandate

Then there is the actual reality...

Fact check: Strong majority of Canadians oppose convoy protests, poll after poll finds
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/poli...u-support-oppose-truckers-mandates/index.html

On Fox shows, people who are opposed to the ongoing Canadian protests against vaccination mandates, Covid-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been portrayed as elites out of touch with the views of everyday workers.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, tweeted on Monday: "Don't let the fact that the mainstream media is hiding this fool you: Canadians support the Freedom Convoy."

In fact, poll after poll -- including the very poll Ungar-Sargon was referencing -- has shown that most Canadians oppose the protests and support both vaccination mandates and various restrictions intended to limit the spread of the virus. The polling figures suggest it is Fox's cheerleading for the protests that is out of touch with the views of a significant majority of the Canadian public.

In addition, one of the recent Canadian polls has been falsely described this week in some pockets of conservative media. While that poll did show that there is considerable Canadian discontent with Trudeau's handling of the protests, it's not true that only 16% of Canadians said they want Trudeau back as prime minister, as a Fox contributor claimed, or that only 16% would vote for Trudeau again, as the right-wing Washington Examiner reported.

(More at above url)

 

Trudeau Authorizes Bank Accounts Frozen for Social Media Posts in Support of Freedom Protests – Canadian Civil Liberties Association Denounce Decision

 

Sorry… this is how you deal with domestic terrorists.

 

In fairness, what support did civil rights protests garner at the time? Abolitionist protests? Can't exactly go justifying tyranny of the majority when we don't like the protests can we?

 

So you see protests of white supremacists flying neo-Nazi and Confederate flags & banners as the equivalent of the Civil Rights protests. Interesting.

 

nice non-sequitur, really reaching there...

 

Sometimes you just have to go for the stretch...

But in all fairness, you teed it up so nicely.

 

did I now? Because the analogy is apt, the topic of the protest is irrelevant when discussing civil liberties. I'm just highlighting how one would be biased by the topic.