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Doyle McManus: Angry truckers paralyzed Canada’s capital. It could happen here too

WASHINGTON — The pictures from Ottawa over the last two weeks have defied every American stereotype of Canadians. We think of our northern neighbors as incorrigibly polite, their politics as moderate and their capital city — when we consider it at all — as boring, the Sacramento of the north.

Suddenly, however, Ottawa has become the center of a global populist backlash against vaccine mandates and, more broadly, elitist liberal governments.

About 500 truckers angry about new border-crossing rules between Canada and the United

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