Canada has employed strict restrictions in its efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike in the United States, such measures have received very little pushback or politicization \u2014 until recently.\n\nTruckers protesting a vaccine mandate have occupied the nation\u2019s capital, Ottawa, for three weeks, leading Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare a state of national emergency.\n\nWe ask how Canada got to this point, and hear what the protest is like on the ground. \n\nGuest: Catherine Porter, the Toronto bureau chief for The New York Times.