Was doing some thinking over breakfast.
First, this thing is having and will have lasting bad effects on Canadian people and Canadian society. These effects will be made worse since up until now, unless I'm wrong, the vast majority of Canadians have felt a part of the country. "We're all in this together."
People now know nothing could be further from the truth. They have seen Trudeau, his regime's, the police's, and the military's utter disdain for peaceful protesters asking only redress for legitimate grievances. They have seen those in power trample people's rights, and in a few cases, bodies, with steel-toed boots. There are likely to be deep divisions between people who supported the truckers and those who supported the regime. These divisions will play out more and more as time goes by, much like the divisions between the leftists/Communists and everyone else in the USA.
A certain amount of buy-in by enough people is needed to make ANY country function. That's true even in Cuba, China, or North Korea. True here in the USA. What's being lost here is a total-loss of buy-in by a certain number of Canadians, and a partial loss of buy-in by many more, with those who are still fully-bought in an object of ridicule/derision.
In short, Canada as a nation, and as a concept, has been badly damaged, with even more damage to come. No, the country won't collapse, thanks to the average Joe/Jane/Hector/Yves who actually makes Canada go. But what made Canada Canada, that feeling of being special, that feeling of being not the USA, is largely gone. The smart Canadians now realize things in Ottawa are just as fucked up as they are in Washington, and they don't even have the inalienable rights Americans have. They know they are even worse off than those people down south.
The fix is obvious to many - Trudeau and his regime resigns, all Chinese Flu-related oppressive measures immediately ended. But that fix is some time off. In the meantime, the Canadian national level of anger will only grow, and could be expressed in increasingly radical ways.