Vehicles leaving blockade at Canadian border crossing

Top Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers on Monday to take a look at to wreck the siege there and in different places across the nation.

Top Minister Justin Trudeau attends information convention on Monday, February 14, 2022 in Ottawa. (Photograph: AP)

Vehicles and different cars in Canada are rolling out of a southern Alberta the town and finishing a blockade that paralysed a U.S. border crossing into Montana for greater than two weeks.

The convoy left Tuesday at some point after Top Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to take a look at to wreck the siege there and in different places across the nation.

Protesters have been proscribing get right of entry to to the crossing at Coutts, Alberta, since Jan. 29 in an indication towards COVID-19 vaccine mandates and broader well being restrictions. Simply days in the past, the Royal Canadian Fixed Police arrested 13 folks and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition on the crossing.

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