By Friday, January 28th, much of the trucker convoy was arriving in the Ottawa area. Horns were blaring, and spirits were high.
On that day, independent journalist Trish Wood (an award-winning veteran of The Fifth Estate) published a statement by Saskatchewan’s Dr. Francis Christian.
Titled Message to our Heroic Truckers for Freedom, it credited them with restoring hope to “a nation languishing in the long night of tyranny and oppression.” The drivers at the wheel of these big rigs had, he said,
made our grandmothers and our children smile and dance again…your roar of freedom…has been heard around the world.
Canada is cheering you on.
This professor of general surgery called the truckers “heroes” and “warriors.” Objecting to politicians who'd divided Canadians into ‘us’ and ‘them,’ he said we’d collectively had enough of “inhuman and illegal vaccine mandates” in our hospitals and hockey rinks.
“We love you,” he declared. “We can never thank you enough!”
Read his full statement here.
Dr. Christian’s life as a physician and professor got seriously complicated last year after he broke ranks with medical bureaucrats and publicly objected to COVID vaccines being administered to children. His primary reasons were that kids are at exceptionally low risk from this virus - and that proper informed consent was not taking place. Read more here.