I remember stories like these all over the internet but I do not recall any that defended Trudeau. The PM voiced these complete mischaracterizations and they were repeated on CNN and the like but there was no vocal opposition to the convoy message to be seen among the common folk. Donna did you come across any opposition to the truckers in your research that wasn't centered in the government?
Some Ottawa residents were indeed opposed. One trucker told me that, as he was pulling into downtown on the first Friday of the protest with a large sign on his flatbed truck, someone used a van to block him at an intersection, then got out of his vehicle and shouted obscenities at the trucker and his wife (both in their 70s).
The wife managed to video the end of these comments and has shown me the video. The man demands to know "How many cancer patients have you killed already?" Apparently a large male pedestrian intervened and told the person doing the shouting to clear the intersection or he'd physically remove him.
This same trucker says he was shoveling snow from the sidewalk one day when a youngish woman walked by him and quietly but clearly told him to F off. He says he responded with 'Have a nice day, ma'am.' After spending three full weeks in Ottawa, those are the only negative experiences that trucker talks about.
I also have a few photos of one or two counter protesters standing in the street holding a sign that said 'Go Home Terrorists! #TakeBackOttawa".
It's no surprise that there were different opinions amongst residents of this city. The problem is that the media only reported one small sliver of those opinions and continues to pretend that's the full story.
So not a surprise that some accepted the government propaganda or surmised the worst before checking out the movement but the blatant bias we saw was and remains more than curious. It is deeply concerning because it feels like totaletarianism- something out of Soviet Russia. I see tendrals of this societal disease in several other areas of concern. The Covid 19 propaganda and lack of dialog is central to the climate crisis and the 2020 election fraud stories. Lies are repeated and truth is surpressed. It is the truth that can set us free, our acceptance of lies will become the shackels that enslave us.
Thank you!
I remember stories like these all over the internet but I do not recall any that defended Trudeau. The PM voiced these complete mischaracterizations and they were repeated on CNN and the like but there was no vocal opposition to the convoy message to be seen among the common folk. Donna did you come across any opposition to the truckers in your research that wasn't centered in the government?
Some Ottawa residents were indeed opposed. One trucker told me that, as he was pulling into downtown on the first Friday of the protest with a large sign on his flatbed truck, someone used a van to block him at an intersection, then got out of his vehicle and shouted obscenities at the trucker and his wife (both in their 70s).
The wife managed to video the end of these comments and has shown me the video. The man demands to know "How many cancer patients have you killed already?" Apparently a large male pedestrian intervened and told the person doing the shouting to clear the intersection or he'd physically remove him.
This same trucker says he was shoveling snow from the sidewalk one day when a youngish woman walked by him and quietly but clearly told him to F off. He says he responded with 'Have a nice day, ma'am.' After spending three full weeks in Ottawa, those are the only negative experiences that trucker talks about.
I also have a few photos of one or two counter protesters standing in the street holding a sign that said 'Go Home Terrorists! #TakeBackOttawa".
It's no surprise that there were different opinions amongst residents of this city. The problem is that the media only reported one small sliver of those opinions and continues to pretend that's the full story.
So not a surprise that some accepted the government propaganda or surmised the worst before checking out the movement but the blatant bias we saw was and remains more than curious. It is deeply concerning because it feels like totaletarianism- something out of Soviet Russia. I see tendrals of this societal disease in several other areas of concern. The Covid 19 propaganda and lack of dialog is central to the climate crisis and the 2020 election fraud stories. Lies are repeated and truth is surpressed. It is the truth that can set us free, our acceptance of lies will become the shackels that enslave us.