Trudeau Resigns—CNN's Scott Jennings: "God Bless The Canadian Truckers"

 Huh.

God bless the Canadian truckers! https://t.co/lDvjs7UlGx

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 6, 2025

Although we had quite a few posts on the Canadian truckers, starting on January 11, 2022 we were looking at it through a logistics lens, though there were already signs of the socio-political import:

• Well, It Appears The Canadian Truckers Are Up To 50,000 In 11 Convoys Converging On The Capital

• Ummmm....Something's Up: Canadian Trucker's Convoy Being Greeted As Heroes
• Truckers Entering The U.S. From Canada and Mexico Will Now Be Required To Show Proof Of Vaccination, No More Critical Worker Exemption
• "U.S. vaccine mandate on freight drivers coming from Canada may exacerbate auto supply chain shortage"
• "Trudeau defends vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers amid supply chain concerns"
• "Trucker vaccine rule is making freight and fruit pricier"
• If You Thought #BareShelvesBiden Was Trending Hard, Just Wait For Saturday
• Followup: With Two Days To Go, Chaos Reigns On Canadian Vaccine Mandate For Cross-Border Truckers
• Canada Still Plans To Refuse Entry To Unvaccinated US Truckers Starting Tomorrow

However,  by February 18 (four days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine) we had posted: Short of War, What Just Happened In Canada May Be The Biggest Story Of The Covid Era

When we started posting on the vaccine mandate and the trucker's protest (January 11) it was to focus on the logistical angle of cross-border commerce. On January 13 that was still the focus:

This seems like a pretty important story, what with Canada being the largest trading partner of the U.S. and all but it doesn't appear that anyone cares....

 

But by January 24 the entire dynamic had changed: this was now a socio-political story:

Ummmm....Something's Up: Canadian Trucker's Convoy Being Greeted As Heroes

If this is the Zeitgeist, governments are going to fall....

....Saturday's "1000 Canadian Trucks On The Way To Ottawa To Protest The Cross-Border Vaccine Mandate" is going to prove to be a low estimate of the numbers. The trucks are coming from New Brunswick in the east to Vancouver in the west and Yellowknife up in the Northwest Territories. And the people are cheering them on.This might be one of the preference cascades we were posting on in early November.

Even though we had been following the story closer than many folks, at that point we really had no idea how big and how important the the unfolding events were. 

Here's Izabella Kaminska at The Blind Spot, February 18 (also on blogroll at right) with more of just how critical it is for people to understand what is going on....

And May 15 2022,  Let The Lawsuits Commence: Canadian Judge Rules Trucker Protests Were Peaceful and Legal
A seemingly big deal that is not getting a lot of any mass media coverage.
I only just heard of this month-old ruling thanks to a friend. 

In January 2024 we saw:

Le Petit Roi, Justin Trudeau, Slapped Down By Federal Court Over Actions He Took Against Truckers (plus Izabella Kaminska stops by)

The sick glee exhibited by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland as they ordered banks to freeze citizen's bank accounts was as sick as anything you are likely to see in a purported Democracy.

(hence the Short of War post)

God bless the Canadian truckers!