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Mary Sanchez: Oh Canada, how the U.S. encouraged a few disgruntled truckers to spin into a movement

Oh Canada, please know that most of the United States understands you’ re one of our biggest trade partner. Police, who wisely hesitated to use force, began to make arrests at the Ambassador Bridge, which is a key to economic trade, linking Windsor and Detroit. Initially, the protests were said to be in opposition to a vaccine mandate that meant those hauling loads into...

Oh Canada, please know that most of the United States understands you’re one of our biggest trade partner.

We get it that elected officials of one country shouldn’t meddle in the doings of another.

The anti-vaccination, anti-government “Freedom Convoy” quickly dotted Canadian cities and even jumped overseas. But it had a lot of fools and their tools egging them on from the U.S. side of the border.

Some of the most irresponsible of the voices were U.S. politicians, cable media personalities, conspiracy theorists, anti-government militia types and the misguided rantings of our

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