Nova Scotia Mechanic

Another extraordinary Freedom Convoy story begins tomorrow.

I’ve mentioned Sam a few times previously. He’s the mechanic who drove to Ottawa from Nova Scotia with his trucker buddies.

Here he talks about arriving in the nation’s capital, and how some of the truckers clued in early that police were attempting to corral protesters far from Parliament Hill.

Here I explain how he came to rely on a brother-sister team from Saskatchewan who spent weeks fetching replacement auto parts.

Here he talks about the time the vintage Mack, owned by his friend Guy, caught fire in the middle of an Ottawa intersection - and how he himself received a face full of fire extinguisher in the scramble to put it out.

Here he describes an auto shop in Quebec that rebuilt the Mack after the protest ended, and how his personal perspective on French Canadians was permanently altered by his Freedom Convoy experiences.

The full version of Sam’s story is a doozy. Part 1 appears tomorrow.