Two weeks after the start of the movement, an Ontario court on Friday asked the protesters to leave the scene.
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The dispute does notstopped not. Anti-sanitary measures protesters in Canada continue, Saturday, February 12, to paralyze a major border axis with the United States, despite the decision rendered Friday by an Ontario court ordering the demonstrators to leave.
The blockage for several days of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ontario, to the American city of Detroit, had prompted Washington to intervene with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resolve the crisis. More than 25% of goods exported between the United States and Canada transit there. On Friday morning, the Premier of Ontario, the province where the Ambassador Bridge is located and the federal capital Ottawa, declared a state of emergency.
Many other protesters have also gathered in the capital Ottawa, where the streets have been congested with hundreds of large trucks for the past fortnight, inspiring similar movements in France and New Zealand. Two other border axes are also blocked: the first, at Emerson, connects the province of Manitoba to North Dakota, while the second is located in Alberta.