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A tale of two protests

Leaders of the agitation in Ottawa as also on the US-Canada border have been arbitrarily arrested without charge. Indian and Canadian governments handled protests on their soil employing different tactics. India held eleven rounds of talks with protestors seeking a middle path, while Canada refused to discuss demands.

Ottawa reacts

For the protests that have paralysed Ottawa, and now threaten to engulf the US and parts of Europe, are also a reaction to what many see as coercive measures by governments to enforce the use of vaccines in the battle against Covid-19, and more generally the restrictions on movement that have become a global norm.