Thank You for Being Here
Thank You for Being Here
Ottawa resident spent hours out in the cold, personally greeting out-of-province truckers.
Michael’s film: Part 1 here. » Part 2 here.
On the first Saturday the truckers were in Ottawa, local resident Michael Grandlouis spent hours outdoors. At the 20-minute mark of his 80-minute love letter to the Freedom Convoy, he says he felt he should acknowledge the big rigs then jamming Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway:
I see all these other trucks all lined up. And I said well, you know what? They came here so I'm gonna go say hello to them…not everyone can be on the Hill and they're just as important.
He says he “went from truck to truck,” meeting folks from Alberta, as well as people from both coasts - British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. In his words:
Every trucker took the time to roll down his window or open their door and have a pleasant chat. And I said ‘I live next door, here. So I wanted personally to thank you for being here and welcome to Ottawa…make yourself right at home.
After he’d been walking for about three hours, he says a trucker from Manitoba asked if he’d like a hamburger.
And I said, ‘Yes, I would. Yes, I would.”
So we went back to the back of his truck and he had a little hibachi, like a little barbecue, and it was welded to the back of his frame. And he was cooking hamburgers there.
And he had a lovely wife, and she asked me what I wanted on the hamburger and the way they do it is they don't bring the condiments out. They prepare your bun inside the cab and then they bring your bun out with whatever you want on it…
And I thought: ‘Man, when's the last time a stranger offered me a hamburger?’
…I'll always remember that.
Read more about Michael’s film:
Love Letter to the Truckers - Ottawa resident celebrates the Freedom Convoy in an 80-minute film
