"His carbon tax on the farmer who grows the food, and the trucker who shifts the food, is a tax on the single mom who can't afford to buy the food," he said.

Rob Stewart, then-deputy minister of public safety, responded the next day, saying that “we need to assess the threat in terms of serious violence, not in terms of whether truckers are hanging around.”

The language used by the media as they cover protests like the Freedom Convoy is important because it has incredible power to shape opinions.

Luckily our donors received their money back, unlike the Canadian truckers who had the funds donated to them frozen by GoFundMe.

So will they do the same, with a massive protest convoy to Sacramento? Hopefully. But will it get them work? No. Can they just ignore the law and keep on working illegally?

One, if there's some kind of institutional power behind the protest, it is more like a Red Guard or Brownshirt thing than a protest. The Truckers Convoy in Canada was a real protest. Mr. Lukianoff: Yes.

Next They Come for Your Wealth Early on, a GoFundMe page had been set up to support the protest.

"If you tax the farmer who grows the food, the trucker who ships the food, you tax all who buy the food," he said. Jeff Sandes contributed to this report. 

“There could be an opportunity to get in on this growing narrative of the truckers.” One aide wrote, “There’s a danger that if we come down too hard they might push out the crazies.” Another aide replied, “That’s fair.”

DND said the training flights were pre-planned and unrelated to the protest.

The decision by Ottawa and Washington to impose a cross-border vaccination mandate on truck drivers in mid-January was a bridge too far for truckers, who in response initiated the “Freedom Convoy” protests in February, which lasted for weeks.

truckers’ Freedom Convoy.

When they protested peacefully, breaking only parking regulations, Trudeau attacked them as anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, anti-black (even the black truckers), homophobes, and transphobes, claiming that they were a “fringe minority,” and likened them to

The union is protesting against soaring fuel prices and demanding minimum pay guarantees. Four rounds of negotiations with the government have failed to find a compromise.

He cited cross-examination from trucker and protestor Harold Jonker, who said trucks did not need to run all night because many had bunk heaters to keep their occupants warm.

Burning churches and blocking railways are blows in support of social justice, but peacefully protesting vaccine mandates constitutes a public order emergency.

Trudeau shared some of that thought and had responded to then-Alberta Premier Jason Kenney that the issue was “Not about truckers.” “Last time we had FMM [first ministers’ meeting], I asked that you not proceed with trucker mandate.

The organizers of the truckers' Freedom Convoy have had their chance to take the stand and offer their subjective perspectives of the event.

A drawn-out battle between convoy organizers and authorities around the issue of fundraising for the truckers saw online platforms that collected millions being shut down or frozen by court order.

The Freedom Convoy in Ottawa was an objectively peaceful protest, yet the Liberals illegally invoked the Emergencies Act, froze bank accounts, and had police playing the part of thugs and criminals, stealing food and fuel from the truckers in a blatant

The government's pyrrhic victory is due to the fact that the trucker Freedom Convoy was a pivotal moment in Canadian political history, when the average Canadian who was adversely affected by Mr.

Before the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa at the end of January, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the truckers and supporters of the convoy a “small fringe minority” who hold “unacceptable views.”

Howard said the protesters were “true heroes” and said she planned to speak in Ottawa on behalf of Police on Guard, a freedom-oriented organization of retired and serving police officers. Her husband is also a member.

I think the truckers doing what they did was a huge, huge sign. And [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau figured out he couldn't do anything. So, I think his best step [is] to drop the mandates,” Hutchins told The Epoch Times.

A Calgary trucker arrested as co-organizer of the Freedom Convoy sought to move his trial out of Ottawa, where he is worried potential jurors are more likely to have a bias against him. 

When testifiying at the inquiry earlier this month, Bauder said he had written the MOU with a fellow trucker.

Johnson said the truckers are taking “extraordinary measures” to “get the unbiased news out.”

Regarding Canada’s trucker convoy, Ms. Bauer said that her friends and relatives were shocked that she supported the convoy, because they thought the convoy was “some kind of Nazi group.” Ms.

In 2020, the protests spread to other parts of Canada, with blockades of railroads and roadways going on for weeks in an attempt to stop the project.

And we support those who use their constitutional rights to protest for freedom. We are all truckers now. Dr. Robert Malone Well put. Reposted from the author’s Substack