"But at the same time, let's not lose sight of this, that the vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, the vast majority of truckers are vaccinated. Truckers as you and I are speaking today are delivering goods for Canadians." Alghabara said.
Alghabra did acknowledge that pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions and the role truckers play in ensuring the smooth flow of goods into the country are serious issues deserving of "Rational and meaningful" debate and "Even criticism" of government policy.
Even before the Trudeau government brought in a mandate on 15th Jan that requires truckers crossing the border to be vaccinated, Canada was short 23,000 truck drivers.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance has estimated that about 15 per cent of truckers - as many as 16,000 - are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but it has shamefully lost its nerve and denounced any protests on public roadways, highways, and bridges and has urged all truckers to get inoculated because the Government said so.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has urged the government to give truckers more time to get vaccinated while the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition hasn't lost its bottle like the Canadian Turcking Alliance and has called for the vaccine mandate to be scrapped entirely.
Among the truck drivers in Canada who are slow-rolling in convoys across the country to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandate at the U.S. border, will be Ontario owner-operator Brigitte Belton, who until recently regularly moved freight between the U.S. and Canada.
Trudeau brushed aside anger over the vaccine mandates, claiming that "90% of truckers are vaccinated" - and blamed Conservative Party politicians for stirring fears about disruptions to the supply chain.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/26/truckers-protest-could-be-the-downfall-of-justin-trudeau/
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