WNU Editor: I have seen my share of protests in my life, but the one I say today was special.
You have your usual wack jobs and fringe groups present, but 99% (if not more) were peaceful and happy to be there to make their voices heard.
And yes .... tens of thousands of flag and home-made sign carrying truckers and their supporters showed up, even with -20C temperatures and non-stop hostile coverage from the main stream media and our country's political leaders.
There was also a massive police presence, but they kept their distance when they saw that most of the protesters were like them. People who work hard for a living. Families. An age group that was predominantly from 30 to 60. In short. Canada's law-abiding middle class.
I am still digesting what I saw today. But what really struck me and made today's protest in Ottawa unique and different from past protests that I have seen is that the ones who showed up to demonstrate was a cross section of people who make Canada work.
How do I know?
Without them our society as we know it will collapse within 72 hours. Truckers. Couriers. The people who sort and deliver the mail. They have (and are) providing a critical service. And they do so with all the risks and hardships that it entails.
That is what I liked about today's event. It reminds all of us on how important and vital those who work in shipping and delivering our goods are to keeping the system running. Especially our truck drivers. And why we should at least listen to them when they strongly believe that a government policy is wrong.
So what is next?
Today's demonstration has rattled Canada's political and media establishment. This protest was spawned organically from Western Canada by truck drivers, with no encouragement or support from any major political party, special interest group, or the media.
If what I am seeing on the news right now is an indication, all the pundits see this as a threat to the status quo, and a warning that if life does not improve for most Canadians, there is going to be hell to pay for Canada's major political parties in the next federal election.
As to where was Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau today?
Even though he is double vaccinated with a booster shot, he was in isolation somewhere because he was exposed to someone who had Covid earlier this week. Now ponder that for a moment.
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Dail Mail has it that they evacuated him to a secure location becayuse of the crowd size and potential threat due to the crowds large size. What they mean is SOY BOY is a wimp!
Sounds like Canadian media establishment and government have the same agenda--just like in the US. The agenda = globalism, which does NOT tolerate those who DON'T share it (such as Donald Trump and those who voted for it).
I heard that Trudeau was not isolating due to COVID nor hiding from the crowd. Instead he was practicing his newest blackface routine for private sessions of the WEC.
Spent ~3 hours in the crowd yesterday, waddling up and down Wellington St. looking at all the trucks (think fat old lady with a walking staff, here) and was totally happy with the experience. Noisy AF but 100% peaceful, cheerful patriotism. Lots of flags, lots of families with their kids, all races seen--I'll be going back every day and can only pray this makes a difference. We've put up with a LOT this past two years, let a lot of things go past that have been terrifically destructive to the economy and infringed on our Charter rights, and with basically still no end in sight even as omicron winds things down--mandatory masks, vaccine mandates despite ~80% of adults vaccinated, pressure to vaccinate children down to infancy even as this becomes less and less recommended by science, coercive vax passports which mean nothing when *all* can still get and transmit the virus, Federal regs shutting down travel by air, train, or boat (ferries) to anyone not 'fully vaccinated', threats of interminable boostering being required to maintain this status--*AND NO CLEAR PROMISES WE'LL EVER GET OUT OF ANY OF IT* it really is time to shut this nonsense down and get back to our lives.
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