I think part of the reason the trucker protesters went so well was because it called back to a really classic image of the traditional Canadian woodsman that used to be so famous in the 90s. Lots of trucker/farmer types obviously showed up and they had a very cozy and friendly image to them. It was very welcoming without being left-coded.
It went well in the sense that a general discipline was maintained despite being relatively decentralized while being also being quite large. No one was killed, nothing was burned down. The media had to invent things like the "vandalizing" the Terry Fox statue, the Confederate and Nazi flags, calling it an "occupation", etc. But this still worked to a large degree, polling was showing a majority of Canadians supported cracking down on the convoy with the war measures act. There was more sympathetic coverage internationally, the Financial Times had a piece criticizing the Trudeau government. Also, what it actually accomplished and it's legacy I think is hard to parse. The pandemic restrictions were already at that point starting to go away, I'd believe that the convoy accelerated that. As far I'm aware, all of the leaders have either fled the country, are awaiting sentencing or have been sued into oblivion.
No one has really seemed to capitalize or inherent it's legacy politically, PP kept the convoy at arms length and PPC lost a bunch of their voters this last election.
I kinda just wish we could have normal protests where we can just look like normal people. I see what they mean but I feel like evoking Nazi imagery is just as stupid of an idea if you actually want to win people over.
I understand this sentiment. I feel like there's been dozens of these types of things over the years, here and in other countries and none of them seemed to move the needle. Immigration has been curtailed slightly by the liberals only after shit has gotten so bad. There was no protests that made that happen. Maybe it's just going to take something else and maybe that something else is a bunch of dudes getting together to get fit and march around invoking Nazi imagery. This kind of stuff may get more palpable in another decade or two once all the boomers are gone.
I don't think I'd put money on them at this point, but they have piqued interest. Ferryman and Fortissax are completely right about the Conservative party, movement and broader right wing in Canada. It's flaccid and doesn't understand itself or the moment we are in.
Really fascinating isnt it? Remember Trudeaus reaction to Muslims being Anti-LGBT? "Brainwashed by American white-supremacists". Holy moly.
The muslim kids stamping on the pride flag lmao
BTW, it's probably been posted here, I just heard about it today. A jeet drove into a daycare in Toronto and killed a toddler??? Is this shit just going to get more and more ridiculous every fucking week? I'm getting very tired of hearing kids being brutalized every other week in this joke country.
I guess the Ontario government responded by saying they're looking into regulations around daycares. You have to wonder how any politician or bureaucrat take themselves seriously when they're going to make daycares require concrete barricades in their parking lots, they have to know by now these people should no be driving /rant