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		</div><p>Canadian police began arresting protesters on Friday in a bid to break up a nearly three-week protest against the country’s Covid-19 restrictions.</p>
<p>Officers were seen going door to door along a line of trucks, campers and other vehicles parked on Ottawa’s snow-covered streets.</p>
<p>Some protesters surrendered and were taken into custody, police said. Some were led away in handcuffs. One person being taken away carried a sign that read “Mandate Freedom”.</p>
<p>Many of the truckers remained defiant.</p>
<p>“Freedom was never free,” said trucker Kevin Homaund, of Montreal. “So what if they put the handcuffs on us and they put us in jail?”</p>
<p>Police made their first move to end the occupation late on Thursday with the arrest of two key protest leaders.</p>
<p>They also sealed off much of the downtown area to outsiders to prevent them from coming to the aid of the self-styled Freedom Convoy protesters.</p>
<p>The capital represented the movement’s last stronghold after three weeks of demonstrations and blockades that shut down border crossings into the US, caused economic damage to both countries and created a political crisis for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.</p>
<p>On Monday, Mr Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act, giving law enforcement extraordinary authority to declare the blockades illegal, tow away trucks, arrest the drivers, suspend their licences and freeze their bank accounts.</p>
<p>Ottawa police made it clear on Thursday they were preparing to end the protest and remove the more than 300 trucks, with the city’s interim police chief warning: “Action is imminent.”</p>
<p>The operation on Friday in Ottawa began in the morning with police methodically arresting protesters a few blocks from Parliament Hill, the heart of the protest zone, where trucks were parked shoulder to shoulder.</p>
<p>Some officers carried automatic weapons and wore tactical unit uniforms.</p>
<p>The two protest leaders under arrest were due in court on Friday. Among the charges: mischief and obstructing police.</p>
<p>The bumper-to-bumper occupation infuriated many Ottawa residents, who complained of being harassed and intimidated on the streets and obtained a court injunction to stop the truckers’ incessant honking of their horns.</p>
<p>The demonstrations around the country by protesters in trucks, tractors and motor homes initially focused on Canada’s vaccine requirement for truckers entering the country but soon morphed into a broad attack on Covid-19 precautions and Mr Trudeau’s government.</p>
<p>The biggest border blockade, at the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, disrupted the flow of auto parts between the two countries and forced the industry to curtail production.</p>
<p>Authorities lifted the siege last weekend after arresting dozens of protesters.</p>
<p>The final border blockade, in Manitoba, across from North Dakota, ended peacefully on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The protests have been cheered on and received donations from conservatives in the US.</p>
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