Canada is too far gone to the fascists. Peaceful protest was never going to work. MLK and Gandhi were only successful because they were making an appeal to freedom loving Christian nations. Imagine Gandhi in the face of Hitler, he simply would have been liquidated, a lesson these truckers are about to learn. A lesson I hope Americans are watching closely.
Regarding India, Harry Turtledove wrote an alternative history short story about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Article