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Police[/B] in the Canadian province of Alberta have dismantled a group allegedly planning to use violence[/B] at a border crossing, which has been blocked for days by truck drivers protesting health measures.
The Royal Mounted Police said that 11 people were arrested and 13 rifles and pistols were seized, as well as a large amount of ammunition. Those arrested allegedly wanted "to use violence against police officers if efforts were made" to lift the blockade.
The guns, magazines and several bulletproof vests were found inside three trucks, explained police, who have launched an investigation "to determine the scope of the threat and the criminal organisation".
The crisis continues in Canada, although the Abasador Bridge, a strategic roadway to the US, reopened yesterday. Meanwhile, the province of Ontario has announced it is scrapping the vaccination pass while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to address the nation again this afternoon. According to sources on the CBC public television network, Trindo is preparing to implement the emergency law, which is used in cases of "national crisis" and gives the federal government expanded powers to impose temporary "emergency measures" without needing the consent of local authorities.
On Friday, Trindo had said that "all options were being considered" to end the "illegal" blockades that are harming the country and its economy. On Sunday he called an emergency cabinet meeting and today he is expected to speak with the premiers of all provinces.
The Emergency Measures Act has only been activated once before in peacetime (then called the War Measures Act), by Justin Trideau's father in October 1970. The government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked this law to send troops to Quebec and to take a series of measures following the kidnapping, by the Quebec Liberation Front, of the British Trade Commissioner, James Richard Cross, and a local government minister, Pierre Laporte.
Cross was released after negotiations but the minister was found dead in the trunk of a car.
Source: Proto Thema
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