Canadian-Trucker Protesters Accuse Cops of Blocking Cleaning Services, Letting Toilets Overflow

Ottawa — Canadian authorities in Ottawa are quietly taking new punitive measures against the trucker convoy that has settled around Parliament Hill to protest the country’s continuing pandemic restrictions. Last week, police began moving to cut off fuel supplies — which are crucial for heating the trucks that many of the protesters sleep in at night — and arrested a number of people who were caught transporting more gas into the convoy. More recently, however, numerous convoy participants and organizers said that law enforcement have blocked cleaning services from accessing the porta-potties inside the convoy.

“It’s psychological warfare on the truckers,” Gerry Wieler, a protester who was attending the event with his wife, told me. “They’re trying to just crush them.”