Quebec truckers who disagree with obligatory vaccinations towards COVID-19 are planning to display on Jan. 28 by organizing truck convoys to Ottawa from quite a few border crossings between Canada and the US.
A Fb web page known as "Freedom convoy 2022" states that subsequent Friday, truckers will collect earlier than daybreak on the border crossings of Saint-Théophile in Chaudière-Appalaches, Stanstead within the Japanese Townships and Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle within the Montérégie earlier than regrouping within the space of Freeway 40 in Vaudreuil, west of Montreal, to drive to Ottawa.
Indignant truckers are additionally anticipated to affix the protest from different Canadian provinces that day.
The demonstration in Ottawa is predicted to culminate by 12 p.m.
Beginning final Saturday, COVID-19 vaccination is obligatory for all truckers coming into Canada from the US to keep away from a two-week quarantine and a damaging COVID-19 take a look at earlier than arrival.
The measure has been met with disapproval, with the Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec (CTAQ) estimating that the requirement represents between 12,000 and 16,000 fewer truckers on the highway.
Sylvie Cloutier, president and CEO of CTAQ, states the meals provide chain, already weakened by the pandemic and a labour scarcity, will bear further stress from this measure, growing already elevated meals costs.
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first printed in French on Jan. 20, 2022.
Vehicles cross the Bluewater Bridge between Sarnia, Ont., and Port Huron, Mich., Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins
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