Ottawa Trucker Convoy: Anti-COVID-Mandate Mass Protest
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Maybe the Canuks can come show us how to put an end to government overreach.
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'Freedom' truckers may form world's longest convoy
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-freedom-truckers-may-form-worlds-longest-convoy
Joe Warmington (26 January 2022)
According to Guinness World Records, the longest truck convoy ever recorded was 7.5 km long, in Egypt in 2020.
The Freedom Convoy heading from British Columbia to Ottawa is said to be considerably longer.
“It’s 70 km long,” said Benjamin Dichter, spokesman for the Freedom Convoy 2022. “I have seen footage from an airplane. It’s impressive.”
By Wednesday, truckers hope to have taken their protest through to Manitoba and will make it to southern Ontario on Friday.
Plans call for the convoy to arrive in Ottawa on Saturday for a protest.
If it gets there on time — and if the convoy holds together as it has in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan — it could be 10 times larger than the world record.
“The largest parade of trucks consisted of 480 trucks and is achieved by Tahya Misr Fund (Egypt), in Cairo, Egypt, on 20 November 2020,” Guinness says on its website. “With a length of 7.5 km, Tahya Misr Fund was able to organize a parade of 480 trucks, amid the harsh weather and heavy rain, breaking the Guinness World Records title for the largest parade of trucks, which was achieved 16 years ago in the Netherlands with a parade size of 416 trucks.”
There are estimates the Canadian convoy could comprise 50,000 trucks from the West, East, and even from the United States. It’s difficult to speculate what will transpire in the days ahead.
It looks like Ottawa could be swamped with long-haul trucks on Jan. 29. But with winter weather and potential issues, including possible roadblocks or traffic snarls, time will tell.
Whatever happens, it won’t be for lack of support.
Thousands of Canadians have lined the route, cheered from overpasses and offered to feed drivers in their homes and restaurants.
It’s a grassroots demonstration that has become far bigger than anything organizers had envisioned.
With that comes problems. Media reports said a GoFundMe campaign for the convoy, which had surpassed $5 million by Wednesday morning, had been frozen by GoFundMe.
“Fake news,” said Dichter, whose name — along with Tamara Lich — is listed as an organizer. “It’s not true.”
GoFundMe spokesman Rachel Hollis told the Toronto Sun “we are continuing to work directly with the organizer to gather information about how funds are being distributed. This is part of our standard process to ensure the protection of all donors” and “once a withdrawal plan is provided by the organizer, our team is on standby to safely and quickly deliver the funds.”
Organizers have said the raised money, far more than they ever anticipated, is to help truckers with fuel, lodging and food costs.
“But this has never been about that money,” said Dichter, who added with or without it, the convoy will roll forward.
Dichter said he and Lich are the only two speaking on behalf of the Freedom Convoy. So when social media posts talk of insurrection or violence, he added, it will be clear such agitators or saboteurs are not involved in organizing their “peaceful” and “law-abiding” demonstration.
The protest, Dichter said, is about lifting vaccine mandates for truckers at the Canada-U.S. border and other issues relating to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including forcing drivers to wear masks in trucks.
For the public, the convoy has become a beacon of hope that overreaching COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions and mandates will soon come to an end.
However, the Liberal government is standing firm.
“The government of Canada and the Canadian Trucking Alliance both agree that vaccination, used in combination with preventative public health measures, is the most effective tool to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for Canadians, and to protect public health,” said a joint statement from federal cabinet ministers Omar Alghabra, Seamus O’Regan and Carla Qualtrough, and Canadian Trucking Alliance president Stephen Laskowski.
This is shaping up to be a potential game of chicken, and the world convoy record may fall, too.
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-freedom-truckers-may-form-worlds-longest-convoy
Joe Warmington (26 January 2022)
According to Guinness World Records, the longest truck convoy ever recorded was 7.5 km long, in Egypt in 2020.
The Freedom Convoy heading from British Columbia to Ottawa is said to be considerably longer.
“It’s 70 km long,” said Benjamin Dichter, spokesman for the Freedom Convoy 2022. “I have seen footage from an airplane. It’s impressive.”
By Wednesday, truckers hope to have taken their protest through to Manitoba and will make it to southern Ontario on Friday.
Plans call for the convoy to arrive in Ottawa on Saturday for a protest.
If it gets there on time — and if the convoy holds together as it has in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan — it could be 10 times larger than the world record.
“The largest parade of trucks consisted of 480 trucks and is achieved by Tahya Misr Fund (Egypt), in Cairo, Egypt, on 20 November 2020,” Guinness says on its website. “With a length of 7.5 km, Tahya Misr Fund was able to organize a parade of 480 trucks, amid the harsh weather and heavy rain, breaking the Guinness World Records title for the largest parade of trucks, which was achieved 16 years ago in the Netherlands with a parade size of 416 trucks.”
There are estimates the Canadian convoy could comprise 50,000 trucks from the West, East, and even from the United States. It’s difficult to speculate what will transpire in the days ahead.
It looks like Ottawa could be swamped with long-haul trucks on Jan. 29. But with winter weather and potential issues, including possible roadblocks or traffic snarls, time will tell.
Whatever happens, it won’t be for lack of support.
Thousands of Canadians have lined the route, cheered from overpasses and offered to feed drivers in their homes and restaurants.
It’s a grassroots demonstration that has become far bigger than anything organizers had envisioned.
With that comes problems. Media reports said a GoFundMe campaign for the convoy, which had surpassed $5 million by Wednesday morning, had been frozen by GoFundMe.
“Fake news,” said Dichter, whose name — along with Tamara Lich — is listed as an organizer. “It’s not true.”
GoFundMe spokesman Rachel Hollis told the Toronto Sun “we are continuing to work directly with the organizer to gather information about how funds are being distributed. This is part of our standard process to ensure the protection of all donors” and “once a withdrawal plan is provided by the organizer, our team is on standby to safely and quickly deliver the funds.”
Organizers have said the raised money, far more than they ever anticipated, is to help truckers with fuel, lodging and food costs.
“But this has never been about that money,” said Dichter, who added with or without it, the convoy will roll forward.
Dichter said he and Lich are the only two speaking on behalf of the Freedom Convoy. So when social media posts talk of insurrection or violence, he added, it will be clear such agitators or saboteurs are not involved in organizing their “peaceful” and “law-abiding” demonstration.
The protest, Dichter said, is about lifting vaccine mandates for truckers at the Canada-U.S. border and other issues relating to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including forcing drivers to wear masks in trucks.
For the public, the convoy has become a beacon of hope that overreaching COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions and mandates will soon come to an end.
However, the Liberal government is standing firm.
“The government of Canada and the Canadian Trucking Alliance both agree that vaccination, used in combination with preventative public health measures, is the most effective tool to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for Canadians, and to protect public health,” said a joint statement from federal cabinet ministers Omar Alghabra, Seamus O’Regan and Carla Qualtrough, and Canadian Trucking Alliance president Stephen Laskowski.
This is shaping up to be a potential game of chicken, and the world convoy record may fall, too.
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Watching Stinchfield on Newsmax now... latest on the GoFundMe is that it is now near $6M, and still frozen. RCMP troopers are closing exits at truck-stops along the way with the apparent purpose of running the caravan dry.
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#FreedomConvoy2022: Canadian mainstream media and politicians are lying about it - viva frei vlawg
This is what you need to know about the Freedom Convoy currently on its way from British Columbia to Ottawa. The media is lying to Canadians.
https://rumble.com/vtdglm-freedomco...am-media-and-politicians-are-lying-about.html
This is what you need to know about the Freedom Convoy currently on its way from British Columbia to Ottawa. The media is lying to Canadians.
https://rumble.com/vtdglm-freedomco...am-media-and-politicians-are-lying-about.html
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There is something oddly Max Headroom-like about Justin Tweddledeau...
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That's right boy Trudeau. Peoples' right to be sent to a covid concentration camp.
Manitoba, Canada COVID isolation camp, with barbed wire fence (source: “A Look At A Secret Canadian COVID Camp“)
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As the convoy approaches Ottawa, the cathedral is being forced to acknowledge its existence.
And the framing they're putting around it is exactly what you'd expect.
The following article, for example, stops just short of using the word "terrorism" while accusing the organizers of the convoy of wanting a "coup of sorts" and invoking the January 6th 2021 "invasion of the Capitol building in Washington".
https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1486513041382547457
Truckers are flirting with extremists. They should call off their protest
‘The closer the “freedom convoy” of truckers opposed to new rules around vaccine mandates gets to Ottawa, the less it has to do with truckers or even with those rules.’
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/edi...mists-they-should-call-off-their-protest.html
Toronto Star Editorial Board (26 January 2022)
[bold emphasis added - OB]
The closer the “Freedom Convoy” of truckers opposed to new rules around vaccine mandates gets to Ottawa, the less it has to do with truckers or even with those rules.
The convoy may have started out on the West Coast as a legitimate, albeit wrongheaded, protest against new federal regulations affecting essential workers who regularly cross the Canada-U.S. border (truckers prominent among them).
But by now, as could have been easily predicted from the start, it has become a magnet for every sort of extremist — not just sincere anti-vaxxers, but a jumble of conspiracy nuts, Western separatists, far right-wingers, and worse.
The organizers themselves may not have wanted that to happen; indeed, some are trying to distance themselves from the worst elements attaching themselves to the cross-country convoy.
But everyone is judged by the company they keep, and the minority of Canadian truckers who refuse vaccines and oppose mandates should not be surprised if they find their cause overshadowed by the extremists. Lie down with dogs, as they say, and you get up with fleas.
So consider the bizarre “Memorandum of Understanding” that some of the truckers’ leaders have put forward, proposing that the “People of Canada” join with the Senate and the Governor General to usurp the powers of the government and ditch vaccine mandates. Apparently the deep thinkers behind the convoy think the answer to their complaints is a coup of sorts with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon leading the charge.
Likewise, ponder the hallucinatory art work featuring truckers parting the seas, Moses-style, with a burning cross, no less, in the background.
Or the tweets threatening violence against politicians, or even a Canadian version of the invasion of the Capitol building in Washington once the trucks reach Ottawa.
No one knows how much of that to take seriously; it may turn out to be just a lot of venting by people glomming on to a movement they had little to do with organizing.
Certainly, Conservative politicians who rushed to lend support to the convoy as it started out should be praying hard that it turns out that way. MPs like Andrew Scheer, Candice Bergen and Pierre Poilievre will look awfully bad if the ugly side of the anti-vax movement is on full display once the truckers get to Ottawa.
Even if isn’t, those MPs are firmly on the wrong side of this issue. The vast majority of Canadians are fully vaccinated (including, by some estimates, as many as 90 per cent of truckers themselves) and long ago lost patience with the recalcitrant minority that refuses to get their shots.
They know that has prolonged the pandemic needlessly and put an intolerable burden on the health care system. We’ve all paid the cost of the anti-vaxxers’ selfishness.
So for MPs, of whatever party, to line up with the truckers’ protest is plain wrong. It may do them some good politically, but it amounts to putting partisan advantage ahead of the collective good. For Conservatives, they’ll only discredit their party among the great majority of voters in the long run (not to mention undermine their leader, which for some may actually be the point).
The government is right to stick by its policy on mandatory vaccination for cross-border truckers. Indeed, even if Ottawa reversed itself nothing would change: U.S. authorities have imposed a similar mandate on their side of the border, so the truckers are stuck with it for the time being.
At this point they should call off their protest. It will accomplish nothing, and it’s already amplifying the most toxic voices among those opposed to vaccine mandates, and vaccines themselves.
And the framing they're putting around it is exactly what you'd expect.
The following article, for example, stops just short of using the word "terrorism" while accusing the organizers of the convoy of wanting a "coup of sorts" and invoking the January 6th 2021 "invasion of the Capitol building in Washington".
https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1486513041382547457
Truckers are flirting with extremists. They should call off their protest
‘The closer the “freedom convoy” of truckers opposed to new rules around vaccine mandates gets to Ottawa, the less it has to do with truckers or even with those rules.’
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/edi...mists-they-should-call-off-their-protest.html
Toronto Star Editorial Board (26 January 2022)
[bold emphasis added - OB]
The closer the “Freedom Convoy” of truckers opposed to new rules around vaccine mandates gets to Ottawa, the less it has to do with truckers or even with those rules.
The convoy may have started out on the West Coast as a legitimate, albeit wrongheaded, protest against new federal regulations affecting essential workers who regularly cross the Canada-U.S. border (truckers prominent among them).
But by now, as could have been easily predicted from the start, it has become a magnet for every sort of extremist — not just sincere anti-vaxxers, but a jumble of conspiracy nuts, Western separatists, far right-wingers, and worse.
The organizers themselves may not have wanted that to happen; indeed, some are trying to distance themselves from the worst elements attaching themselves to the cross-country convoy.
But everyone is judged by the company they keep, and the minority of Canadian truckers who refuse vaccines and oppose mandates should not be surprised if they find their cause overshadowed by the extremists. Lie down with dogs, as they say, and you get up with fleas.
So consider the bizarre “Memorandum of Understanding” that some of the truckers’ leaders have put forward, proposing that the “People of Canada” join with the Senate and the Governor General to usurp the powers of the government and ditch vaccine mandates. Apparently the deep thinkers behind the convoy think the answer to their complaints is a coup of sorts with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon leading the charge.
Likewise, ponder the hallucinatory art work featuring truckers parting the seas, Moses-style, with a burning cross, no less, in the background.
Or the tweets threatening violence against politicians, or even a Canadian version of the invasion of the Capitol building in Washington once the trucks reach Ottawa.
No one knows how much of that to take seriously; it may turn out to be just a lot of venting by people glomming on to a movement they had little to do with organizing.
Certainly, Conservative politicians who rushed to lend support to the convoy as it started out should be praying hard that it turns out that way. MPs like Andrew Scheer, Candice Bergen and Pierre Poilievre will look awfully bad if the ugly side of the anti-vax movement is on full display once the truckers get to Ottawa.
Even if isn’t, those MPs are firmly on the wrong side of this issue. The vast majority of Canadians are fully vaccinated (including, by some estimates, as many as 90 per cent of truckers themselves) and long ago lost patience with the recalcitrant minority that refuses to get their shots.
They know that has prolonged the pandemic needlessly and put an intolerable burden on the health care system. We’ve all paid the cost of the anti-vaxxers’ selfishness.
So for MPs, of whatever party, to line up with the truckers’ protest is plain wrong. It may do them some good politically, but it amounts to putting partisan advantage ahead of the collective good. For Conservatives, they’ll only discredit their party among the great majority of voters in the long run (not to mention undermine their leader, which for some may actually be the point).
The government is right to stick by its policy on mandatory vaccination for cross-border truckers. Indeed, even if Ottawa reversed itself nothing would change: U.S. authorities have imposed a similar mandate on their side of the border, so the truckers are stuck with it for the time being.
At this point they should call off their protest. It will accomplish nothing, and it’s already amplifying the most toxic voices among those opposed to vaccine mandates, and vaccines themselves.
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What a half-assed job of framing.
Sad thing is this is what many will hear, and believe!
And this is the view that'll be presented to the kourts...
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Hard to believe there are people in the corporate press still hanging on to this.
No, no, Editorial Board... YOU are on the wrong side of history. No wonder you won't put your names on this stasi article. Afraid of what will happen to the lockdown-sympathizers when the final chips fall.
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Convoy should be in Sault Ste Marie this evening.
Ottawa on Saturday.
https://www.saultstar.com/news/local-news/freedom-convoy-will-slow-sault-traffic-police
Ottawa on Saturday.
https://www.saultstar.com/news/local-news/freedom-convoy-will-slow-sault-traffic-police
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Number of times the MSM has warned about fringe elements at a left wing protest/riot: 0.
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update.
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news...ecides-to-split-in-two-due-to-weather-4999296
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news...ecides-to-split-in-two-due-to-weather-4999296
I like this part.
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