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Heavy lifting... thanks for your thoughtful reply, Roland. I get your point of view completely and can see the same, although I worry that the authoritarian "influencers" here and abroad are able to stir this up into much more.

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Ottawa City Councillor Matthew Luloff told NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday that the protest has morphed into a more far-reaching and hostile demonstration against the government than was originally planned.

"Some of the most well-known radicals in this country have now descended upon the capital. Some of them are calling for violence. Some of them are threatening individual politicians," said Luloff, who also noted the presence of hate symbols and antisemitic flyers at the protest.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079212789/ottawa-trucker-convoy-protest

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