something going on in canada that is not uniquely canadian. it s not even typically canadian, it s very worrisome and it seems to be powered south of the border, here in the united states. yes, well, it s really a global far-right talking point. far-right extremists are opportunists, and for every person involved in those protests who was just a regular person fed up with restrictions, the organizers, like tamara lake and others who have now been arrested, have a history of anti-democratic actions. their goal is to discredit and destabilized liberal democracy, they were involved in secession-ism, islamophobia, all kinds of things. that s the context for this. the whole idea of using trucks to disrupt, to drive people to despair and disrupt the supply chain, is out of the right-wing