To avoid comment spam this isn't "the" moment for Canada - but it does stand a good chance of turning into it should certain stars align.
The thing to note about Canadian history is that it's primarily region-driven. Much as
@mindlessobserver brought up Canada hasn't really had any overarching issue affecting its totality: Quebec separatism is about Quebec, Western alienation concerns the prairie provinces (maybe BC if being generous), and native issues have always had a regional flair representative of where the specific tribe lies. Even going back to John A. Macdonald and the Trans Canadian Railway saw this mindset play out where Canada was veritably made to tie together two coasts with little in common outside of shared crown loyalty. There has never been something significant in Canada akin to the civil rights movement in the US where the focus has been reforming government vs. outright obtaining autonomy or independence.
This ultimately is what scares the globalist managerial class because this backlash is arguably the first taste of that manifesting here. For the first time you have a coast to coast response to centralized diktat, an outburst not driven by region or race but one propelled through shared outrage at actions interfering with basic living. The usual responses of racism, extremism, and sexism - the claims normally shutting such shenanigans down - don't work because the one acting up is the typical blue collar worker, which in turn drives the increasingly rabid responses we saw today. The bureaucrats know no other path to stability so they double down, and that doubling down only inflames the protestors more. It's truly talking past the other and a real game of chicken.
Now what can make this collective action assume "the" moment is if the federal government (or any provincial government for that matter) attempts a real crackdown or calls out the Canadian military. Not since Oka has that happened, not during all the environmentalist road blockades, not during the pipeline protests, not even during the native railway blockade a few years back. You do that now in this environment and the gloves are off, people won't miss the implications and what started as mere anger to health mandates will morph into collective rage at government hypocrisy and overreach. This is why Trudeau hasn't responded to such calls outside of sniveling drivel, why the military has outright rejected calls to act over this. For all the political vitriol a lot know if you take that step you've truly entered the unknown, and no one can predict where it leads.
TL;DR this protest will continue until one side blinks, and should the truckers maintain their nerve it will be the government which does first. It has reached a scale where cracking down won't be effective and could in turn actually drive the first real political change since the 1926 Balfour Declaration - something the Laurentian elite do not want in the slightest.
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