Toronto: On Friday, the premier of the Canadian state of Ontario declared a state of emergency in view of truck jams on the border between Ottawa and the US. Ontario Premier Doug Ford also said he would call for new laws to be introduced soon to take action against those who disrupt the movement of goods and people.
Ford said he would convene a meeting of the provincial cabinet on Saturday to enforce orders that block infrastructure facilities are illegal. “We have been seeing this in Ottawa for two weeks now, this is not a protest, it is an illegal occupation,” he said.
Hundreds of truck drivers demonstrated with their vehicles for the fourth day in a row in Canada. They have blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor in Ontario with the US city of Detroit, disrupting imports and exports of auto parts and other products between the two countries.
