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For weeks, Canadian protesters fighting vaccine requirements have paralysed Ottawa and key border crossings, inspired demonstrations around the globe and injected political instability into the stunt top of Canadian government. On Thursday, Canada's patients had worn thin and the police began arresting protesters, hoping to end weeks of gridlock. On Saturday, the police in Ottawa cleared the thoroughfare in front of the parliament building, arresting 170 people and removing 46 vehicles. It is high time that these illegal and dangerous activities stopped as quote, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said earlier in the week. The protests, which had at first seemed small and disorganised, led him to declare Canada's first national public order emergency in half a century. The weeks of protests have become one of the most visible and contagious eruptions of anti vaccine anger around the world. Similar caravans have clogged traffic on the streets of Belgium, France, New Zealand and even Finland. Wild truckers initiated the protests on January the 22nd. Only a few of them are among a group of self proclaimed leaders involved in the organising far right. Activists and separatists from western Canada have also seized on the issue to air anti government grievances, as have former police officers and military veterans who many believe have used their expertise to help organise the occupation. The group's public leaders have held regular news conferences. Organisers have hired a lawyer to represent them in a nascent class action suit, and they made sure the protesters on the front lines of the border crossing were taken care of distributing food supplies and diesel fuel to the trucks. The authorities called the fuel transports illegal, but they continued Nonetheless. The far right Peoples Party of Canada, which has no seats in the federal parliament, was strongly represented in the ranks of the Ottawa protesters, one of the key organisers of the so called Freedom convoy in Ottawa tomorrow. Lick was previously an official with the Maverick party, which promotes breaking off Canada's three western prairie provinces from the rest of the country. Another main organiser of the truck convoy is a group called Canada Unity, which initially published a memorandum of understanding calling for the end of pandemic restrictions. The group later withdrew the memo after it came under criticism in part for seeming to endorse the toppling of the government