Yellow vest movement spreads to Canada

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The Yellow Vest movement in Canada seems a hodgepodge groups with some yellow vest factions protesting other yellow vest factions.

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When I see buildings and cars vandalised and burning, I'll take them seriously.

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I forget what city it was, but there was a yellow vest protest against the UN migrant compact and there was a counter protest that was bigger calling the protesters racist and nazis.



That's Canada, this movement will go no where.

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This is something I can support.



Yellow vest protests spread to Canada, criticizing illegal immigration, taxes

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Originally starting in France, yellow vest protests have moved to Canada. Many were held Saturday across the country criticizing the tax and immigration policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government.



They made their way to Canada on Saturday, with protests and counter-protests hitting cities including Saskatoon, Toronto, Moncton, N.B., Calgary, Halifax and Edmonton.





Protests spurred on by carbon taxes, pipelines

In the Maritimes, a small local group of demonstrators gathered in front of Halifax's City Hall criticizing a laundry list of issues including Trudeau's carbon tax.



"I have never met even one Canadian that understands how a carbon tax is going to reduce carbon emissions," protester James Hoskins told CTV Atlantic. Another demonstrator, Barry Ahern, criticized Trudeau's summer grant program which he called "oppression of Canadians by our own people."



In Calgary, a large rally began outside the downtown Kerby Centre, with protester Craig Chandler telling CTV Calgary that people were upset over pipelines and Trudeau's leadership in general.



"Ever since France has been doing it, everybody wants to do it, " said Chandler, a member of the Progressive Group for Independent Business, who also called out Calgary Centre MP Kent Hehr.



"We want to know from our MP why he's done nothing on the pipeline problem, why he's done nothing on oil and gas when he represents oil and gas," Chandler said. "We want to know why Quebec is getting $13 billion in transfer payments when we're hurting."



Hehr acknowledged the difficulties in the city but stressed his government's commitment to some pipeline construction — including the Trans Mountain expansion.



"There is no doubt that we want to ensure that when Alberta does well, Canada does well," he said.





Grievances included taxes, immigration

Meanwhile, in Toronto, a group of about 60 protesters, gathered in Nathan Philips Square to voice frustration about the status quo.



While carbon taxes and immigration were the focus of protests in North Bay, Ont., where a counter-protest took place in the town's multicultural centre.



In Edmonton, there was tension between the yellow vest demonstrators and counter-protesters with hundreds gathering at the Alberta Legislature. Many had shown up to criticize the province's high taxes and voice concern over the future of the province's energy industry.



"I'm tired of Trudeau basically doing what he wants with our money and sending it overseas," Turk, a yellow-vested protestor, told CTV Edmonton. "Right now, personally, I'm facing a job crisis. All our oil jobs are gone, all our money is going south."



In many cities, last week's signing of the UN's Global Compact for Migration in Morocco is what drove their anger. Canada was among the 164 nations that signed on. The United States was not.





Despite demonstrators' claims that the pact will open Canada's borders in never-before-seen ways, it is not legally binding and Canada has not agreed to changing its immigration laws in accordance with it.