I'm Not Running from Canada

Hero truckers. Loyal supporters. A battle over what kind of society the children will inherit.

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On the Saturday morning in which truckers and protesters were violently cleared from downtown Ottawa, Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson was live streaming. At the 1:25-minute mark in the video above, she approaches a couple on the street and asks “What’s it been like down here today?”

The man replies: “It’s been a real awakening…to the corruption, to the overreach.” He calls being onsite to bear witness “the right thing to do.”

The woman then explains:

Yesterday was a really hard day. Really emotional. Standing in front of those police officers for so long, looking into their eyes…I just kept trying to tell them things about my life.

And I kept saying my daughters’ names, and saying ‘I’m here for my daughters. I do not want them to live in a country like this. I don’t want them to live in a world like this.’

And you could see some of them were listening. And then some just weren’t.

A few moments later (at the 3-minute mark), the man adds:

I have a little bit of a story to share about yesterday, what happened. So we’ve made lots of friends with these true patriot hero truckers. And we were welcomed in to sit in with one of the truckers basically moments before he was arrested. And I share a common bond with him because we were both born in Poland…

I said to him, ‘Are you not scared?’ I was more scared for him.

And he said, ‘I ran from Poland, I’m not running from Canada. I’m staying right here.’ And then they dragged him out of the truck.

He’s not leaving [Canada]. We’re not leaving.