Stand Up for Your Rights

Winning admiration & applause from Canadian families.

read Part 1: Want a Hug?

When trucker O’Jay - who has a Jamaican flag as well as a Canadian flag inside his cab - was interviewed in March about his Freedom Convoy experience, the host began by playing a 28-second video supplied by O’Jay himself.

With Bob Marley’s One Love as background music, we see a collection of still images - including a protest sign that quotes another Bob Marley song, the one that goes: “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.”

At 8 seconds there’s a photo of O’Jay holding a handmade drawing of lots of hearts and bearing the text “We love you. Thank you truckers.”

At 18 seconds there’s a photo of two parents and three kids - one of whom is tucked into a stroller. The older ones are wearing custom t-shirts over their snowsuits that proclaim: “We trucking [heart] you.”

At 21 seconds, the video shows us an image shot from inside the cab of a truck: a smiling child and adult, looking up in admiration.

This fervent, ongoing applause from ordinary Canadians is the reason those truckers held their ground.