Ahah good to show the hypocrisy here!
Do you think the same apply in reverse too? That if you support the right for this strike you should support the right for the truckers strike?
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There was no trucker strike. Trucker unions were working throughout the entire convoy protest. What the article is talking about is that conservatives were pretty quiet when those convoy protesters were blocking shipping routes into Canada where they call for back to work legislation when port workers effect shipping with their strike. The reason these situations aren't comparable is that those convoy protesters were actively blockading where the dockworkers aren't blockading anything, they are simply not working.
To be honest, Conservative politicians did pipe up when the Convoy blocked the Ambassador bridge. Not immediately, of course, and not loudly, but Doug Ford did interrupt his snowmobiling trip when his wealthy donor base called him on the carpet for allowing the yahoos to cause a millions-of-dollars-per-day incident.
It was no small amount of schadenfreude to watch Conservatives spin on the Convoy, trying to balance appeasing their voting base with appeasing their donor base. You could almost see Poillievre sweat when the Nazi flags started showing up loud-and-proud on camera, and you could see Ford trying his darndest to hide from doing anything official..
Not just the fact that they were blockading, but what they were "protesting" was already in the process of being lifted/eased. Also funded/instigated by Far Right groups in the US.