Canada PM Justin Trudeau moved to secret location amid protests?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have reportedly left their home in the country's capital and shifted to a secret location after a large-scale protest opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates converged on Parliament Hill on Saturday.

What started as a protest dubbed as 'Freedom Convoy' against a vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers has grown into a large demonstration against the Trudeau government's coronavirus regulations.

Thousands of truckers and other protesters converged in the capital city of Ottawa on Saturday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions.

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The truckers are protesting a new requirement that truckers entering Canada be fully immunized as of January 15. The United States has imposed the same requirement on truckers entering the country.

The police are on high alert for possible violence after hundreds of protesters flooded into the parliamentary precinct, despite an extreme cold warning.

Meanwhile, Trudeau had earlier called the protestors a 'small fringe minority' who do not represent the views of Canadians.