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by cickpass_broken 1581 days ago
Wasn't the ambassador bridge cleared before the emergency was declared?

To your second point.. I've watched mainstream media in Canada and watched livestreams coming out of Ottawa, and have no heard of this _at all_. Is there actual evidence of this?

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They left it up to local enforcement to clear the protest.

When they were deemed unable to is when the emergency decree went into effect.

And the Canadian government stated that some portion of the protests were either part of or linked to US militia groups:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/ottawa-blockad...