Doyle McManus: Angry truckers paralyzed Canada’s capital. It could happen here too
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Feb 14, 2022
3 minutes
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.
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