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This is completely different from a few different perspectives but the most relevant is that they lost access by judicial process with legal recourse.
This article however is about private companies making (from some people's perspectives) capricious business decisions with no recourse because gig workers are not deemed employees.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/ottawa-police-seize-fuel-truckers-a...
[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/national-security-officials-...
[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n8aw/queen-of-canada-roman...
You make it sound like the fuel was intended to blow up Parliament or something. Clearly it was meant to keep their trucks running and the propane was for cooking and heating the people within the encampment. This was a completely non-violent protest.
These whackadoodles fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole during COVID, like many others. They were irrational people making irrational decisions. Who knows what they would have done with that fuel when a month or two went by and nobody was listening to them. Maybe some oil-powered camp fires? One of their leaders was the QAnon Queen of Canada. We'd waited long enough.
Imagine how the US government would have reacted to a stockpile of fuel outside the gates to the White House. There would have been no survivors. That's true in most jurisdictions around the world. The Canadian government ended this stand-off peacefully -- with people who were demanding things that literally couldn't physically be delivered. That's a damn miracle. The inquiry found the government's actions justified [1], and the ringleaders in this zero-ring circus have pled guilty or are on trial. [2, 3] And now that it's over, everyone is free to go back and protest!
Stop sticking up for these nutbags, lol.
It's time to put this whole COVID-induced mania behind us. Pretending these are somehow ideologues holding rational positions and making good decisions on that basis is just divorced from reality.
At the time, 2/3 of Canadians supported this action. Less than 1/4 were strongly opposed. Not just that but all the Premiers from across the political spectrum and all the Federal politicians had to sign off too!
This went about as well as it could have. Respectfully based on your post history it sounds like you're American. It doesn't seem like you really have the context on this one.
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/17/trudeaus-use-of-eme...
[2] https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/key-freedom-convoy-figure-pleads-g...
[3] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/criminal-trial-for-freedom-c...
Blocking up city streets for weeks, disrupting people's lives, preventing emergency services from operating because of it, all while "protesting" when >90% of truckers were vaccinated, far greater than the average population, oh and all major trucking companies supported vaccines and mandates for obvious reasons. Meanwhile a select few "truckers" some funded by US interests, were, as you call it.... protesting. Give me a break.
Most of it apparently!
> Donor information that was leaked from the GiveSendGo campaign—which has raised more than $9.5 million—revealed that more than half the donations going to protest organizers have come from the U.S.
> An analysis of the data by Newsweek found that California, Texas, Florida, New York and Michigan topped the list of the highest number of U.S. donations by state.
California, Texas, Florida, and New York also top the list of the highest number of people in the US by state (and while Michigan is the whole way down at #10 rather than #5, the gap between #10 and #5 isn’t that big – much smaller than the gap between #4 an #5), so this much of the analysis says very little, because the very large size differences of the few largest states are masking anything interesting that might exist in the distribution.