Crosstown Traffic: Truckers Blockade US/Canada Bridge to Protest Vaxx Mandates

[Bill]

https://globalnews.ca/news/8516199/c...ccine-mandate/

People hoping to cross the border at Emerson are having to deal with a delay Monday morning.

Truckers tell 680 CJOB that a slow-roll protest is delaying trucking and other traffic as some truck drivers protest the vaccine mandate for all truckers that came into effect on Saturday.

Driver Jamie Throp says it took him 30 minutes to reach the border crossing from the start of the protest.

“Truck drivers are circling MB-75 between Emerson Duty Free and the Commercial Inspection station blocking all lanes heading south to the United States and Northbound traffic coming from the USA,” Throp said.

“How long the protest is going to continue for is unknown.”
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In a video sent to Global News by Dawn Davey, trucks can be seen slowly driving on Hwy. 75 and horns are blasting.

Global News has reached out to the Canadian Border Services Agency for comment.

Requiring COVID-19 vaccines for truck drivers crossing the border into Canada is the “right thing to do,” Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said last week as a new vaccine mandate kicks into effect.

Read more: COVID-19 vaccines for truck drivers ‘right thing to do,’ Duclos says as mandate kicks in
Unvaccinated foreign national truck drivers are no longer allowed to cross the border into Canada, while unvaccinated Canadian truck drivers still have a right of return, but must test and isolate for 14 days.

The U.S. will also tighten its border restrictions this coming Saturday.

At that point, Canadian truckers will be denied entry to the States unless they’re fully vaccinated.

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[Bill]

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On the Border

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[Aerovette]

Uh-oh. The Mexicans crossing the border better watch out. They're next ! (sarcasm)

[JRD77VET]

So they want the truckers vaccinated since they spent the majority of their time by themselves in the truck.

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by JRD77VET

So they want the truckers vaccinated since they spent the majority of their time by themselves in the truck.

I totally didn't get why either, trucking about as solitary job as there is...

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

I totally didn't get why either...

Why the restrictions? Because the store shelves aren't empty enough for the control freaks.

Why protest? Because people don't like having their jobs taken away or being intentionally starved to death.

Seems pretty straight forward to me.