Two Hours Outside of Ottawa

Lovely video of truckers stopping for the night in Kingston, Ontario.

Oh, dear. ConvoyLIVE.com is addictive. So much new video footage to explore, so little time.

Let me introduce you to Beata O’Connell. She’s a painter who has studied fine art in three countries. In 1987 she fled Communist Poland with her husband and 18-month-old daughter, arriving in Canada a few years later. No one needs to explain to her that freedom is priceless.

Beata McConnell. Click image to visit her website. YouTube channel here.

Beata travelled with the arm of the Freedom Convoy that originated in Ontario’s Niagara region. Many of these folks stopped for the night in Kingston, two hours outside of Ottawa, having booked hotel rooms in advance.

Above is a 6-minute video she recorded as they pulled in that evening. It shows us big rigs, pickup trucks, protest signs, and flags. There’s discussion of trucks crossing into Canada from the US in solidarity, and remarks about the Prime Minister’s dismissal of these protesters as nothing more than a “small fringe minority.”

Journalists weren’t shooting this footage. Nor were they talking to these drivers. It was left to artists such as Beata to document that historic journey.