...and threatening to call in child-care workers to apprehend their children if they insisted on exercising their right to protest what they saw as liberty-killing government overreach.

The article states this as if it is radically new, when in reality the diabolical act of government stealing children from parents is widespread and even preferred. Who ever controls the children control the future. CPS is essentially another very corrupt SWAT organization. People must realize courts have long ruled that the children belong to the State and not the parents. If you want to know where the demarcation is between a Republic and and Democracy, this is it. In a Republic, it is understood that the children belong to their natural parents. In a democracy, the all powerful State is the parent.... the parents are merely guardians, who are permitted custody granted by the State. This is outlined in Blair Adams wrote: WHO OWNS THE CHILDREN?. Another source for reading about these cases above at the Voluntaryrist.

By controlling the children, parents and the entire population are controlled. If you want to know why the Canadian government threatened the trucker families with siccing CPS on them, it is for this reason. Tyrannical governments are despicable and shameless.