A Year Ago Today
Let down by the mainstream media, Canadian citizens documented the trucker convoy themselves. They recorded their own history.
Last year, January 29th was a Saturday. This year it’s a Sunday. I first saw the above video a year ago today. I thought it was brilliant, revelatory, and inspiring. Let down by the mainstream media, Canadian citizens were recording their own history.
Please click through and watch these full 7 minutes. I guarantee you’ll stand taller afterward :-)
A year ago today thousands of trucks - from Western Canada, Eastern Canada, and the province of Quebec descended on the nation’s capital. That was Wave 2. Trucks from Western and Southern Ontario had arrived the previous day.
Let no one be confused. This protest was so massive, so momentuous, that the police traffic plan collapsed. Anyone who doubts its magnitutde is invited to go read paragraph 93 in former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly’s closing submission to the Emergencies Act inqury (bold added by me):
Around noon on Saturday, January 29, a convoy of around 1,000 vehicles was coming north up Highway 417; three convoys were coming south down Highway 50, totalling around 2,000 vehicles; and people were marching on foot across the Alexandria and Portage bridges [from Quebec].
By around 2:00 pm on January 29, convoys from the west and east had arrived and were backed up 20 and 30 kilometres, respectively, on Highway 417.
We were part of about 125 people on the bridge at Confederation Park in Hamilton, marking this anniversary, yesterday. The mood was very upbeat, as you would expect, and the crowd a varied cross-section of normal Canadians. The waving and honking from the traffic passing below was constant. I did wish I had a little card or something to hand out to people, directing them to your blog Donna! :)
For anyone who enjoys James Corbett, he mentions the truckers in his “6th annual fake news awards”
https://open.substack.com/pub/corbettreport/p/the-6th-annual-fake-news-awards?utm_source=direct&r=z7fbd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web