"A lot" is a relative term. It was a very small portion of the population who are ignorant radicals. Every country has a few of those.
The Canadian government's answer to people who are unhappy with their country is to make it illegal for people to be unhappy with their government, to seize their bank accounts, and to make it difficult for them to earn a living. It's a veritable paradise of free speech. I can see why many Canadians support their government.
Few is a relative term as well. So is many, but nevertheless, many stood with the truckers from their computers, or however they could manage. I don't believe there were only a few behind them in the Trucker's protests. And there aren't a "few" supporting what is wrong in our country.
Again, off topic, but I must point out that Canada has always its share of protestors who are unhappy about an array of issues. Every country does. And they are given the right to protest peacefully. There is frequently some sort of demonstration happening on the grounds of our legislatures, but they are almost always peaceful. They gather, have their say and then disperse, causing minimal disruption to the city or its citizens. The crybaby convoy folks were NOT peaceful. They took over the entire downtown core for weeks. They deserved every sanction that was imposed on them.
The Truckers would have been gone if trudeau would have put on his big-boy pants and met with them, that's just my opinion of course. Instead, he only succeeded in shining the light on the plight of many blue-collar, good hard-working, Canadian people for the world to see. Those few ignorant radicals as you called them.
Maybe Trudeau could have privately met with two or three of the instigators, but if he had made an appearance at the protest, he might not be alive today. That's how out of control these idiots were. Think about January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capital. No Democrat in their right mind would have put themselves in front of that angry crowd. Similar scenario.
The thing about the trucker debacle is that Trudeau was comfortable with ransacking the trucker’s bank accounts. As many members as there are with Antifa, BLM, KKK, American Nazi party and other terrorist groups, not one time have I heard that our government froze everyone’s bank accounts no matter how destructive they were and are. Individuals, yes………groups, no.
Yes, and good people donating to help the truckers with gas and food were being run off as I recall, and I do remember the police up there stopping journalists, one in particular, she was not allowed to keep the camera on police keeping her from filming what was being done to some of the folks up there. But God bless the "underground" because we got to see enough to know who, and what trudeau (and his supporters) is, besides being a money-grubber, and definitely not, for a certain, let's call it CLASS of people. And now we have in our Whitehouse the same kind of people. Yeah, if you don't know the Truth (or just flat-out deny it) and stand up for it, you'll fall for anything, doesn't matter where you live in this world.
Excuses don't carry any weight with me, if leaders care about ALL the people, they show it with their actions, not word salads, sneaky thieving of the people's money, hiding in basements.
Okay, so how would you have handled the situation? Allow the crybabies to carry on indefinitely and keep an entire city under hostage? Note that at things progressed, they eventually didn't even know why they were protesting. They just wanted to oust the government. That's not how democracy works.
Negotiate, communicate, you know, kind of like you even care about the Truckers, as well as all the people that are the back-bone of the country. But fact is, I would not impose mandated vaccines on people, no matter who or what they are and that's just one of the things I would suggest. trudeau gave every impression that he was above them all, didn't want to get his manicured hands dirty. I won't ask you the same question because it seems pretty clear to me what you would do and that's exactly what trudeau did. You're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong.
Vaccines were never mandated in this country, and I don't think they were in yours. Sure, some workplaces required employees to get the shots, but they still had a choice: get the shot or stay home. This was true for hospital and nursing home employees, and many types of businesses. The crybaby convoy folks decided they are special snowflakes and should be exempt. And guess what? The pandemic has waned BECAUSE a large proportion of the population got their shots, wore masks when mandated and observed lockdowns when they were in place. And I am one of those. You're welcome.
To be sure, whilst the American and Canadian civilian public wasn’t mandated to vax up, all Government employees including the military were. So far as the civilian population went, each Province and State was allowed to make their own declarations.