After Canada, New Zealand also risks paralysis due to the no-vax protest.
While hundreds of trucks continue to blockade the capital Ottawa, put in a state of emergency, a procession of heavy vehicles and campers - covered by signs such as "give us back our freedom" and "coercion is not consent" - has also invaded the streets. of Wellington, surrounding the Parliament of New Zealand, to demonstrate against the anti-Covid restrictions.
For the moment the situation is under control but it is feared that the tension could rise if the mobilization were to continue indefinitely as is happening in Ottawa, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has already warned that she does not intend to receive the demonstrators. "96% of New Zealanders have been vaccinated - he recalled - and this allows us to live today with fewer restrictions".
Even Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, just out of a week of isolation due to Covid, holds firm: "The mobilization needs to stop. Canadians know that the only way out is to continue listening to science and federal government will respond "to the emergency, but without announcing the dispatch of 1,800 reinforcement agents urged by the capital's mayor, Jim Watson.
In the meantime, the protest against the vaccine requirement to cross the border with the US has come to block the Ambassador Bridge, a crucial artery for the transit of border crossers and trade between the two countries, crossed by an average of 8,000 trucks per day: a paralysis that risks costing a country that sends 75% of its exports to the United States. Having passed from America to Oceania, the demonstration risks spreading to Europe as well, where the no-vax movement has gathered activists via social media, threatening a Saturday of passion in Paris.
(Unioneonline / D)
