I found this source: https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga...
More or less, some of the organizers have been tied to xenophobic statements and political movements. Others have been tied to militias. Others are just normal people.
All this after weeks of doing little to nothing and apparently not negotiating with the protestors.
This would all be understandable, but questionable, in a war situation. It is very disturbing, to say the least, to see the sledgehammer of this act being used to crack the relatively small nut of a noisy, inconvenient petition for redress of wrongs by people who seem to still accept that they are citizens of a democratic state.
(Also, this is all the fault of the USA. Or the Russians. )
They are saying they cannot deal with the situation normally while simultaneously refusing to meet with the truckers and eschewing ordinary policing for weeks beforehand.
Yanis Varoufakis is onto something with the death of of social democracy and capitalism and their mutation into something new and nasty.
Can't wait to see what happens when the irreversible climate change starts to affect people's standard of living.