I don't get angry normally but today my anger boiled over into tears. Having been there, having seen the incredible joy and peace, unity of everyone, minorities, provinces coming together. I talked to so many truckers - the kindest sweethearts you will ever meet. Such kind, articulate, intelligent, understanding, heroic men. Some clearly have a hard life, but they travelled over 5000 km to be here. I didn't meet a single bad person, or see anything bad. Saw literally dozens and dozens of people happily picking up garbage around the city. Today Ottawa was spotless - the city didn't clean it up, the truckers all did, bags of garbage neatly piled up.
The way the media has spun this and focused on one damn guy with a flag - and on video many people calmly ask him to leave. And the 'defacing of the Terry Fox memorial" (they put a sign in the statue's hands) which was defaced with LGBT stuff and a face mask last year - and which was immediately cleaned up other protestors.
I'm raging because these kind souls, heroic truckers do not deserve this press. They are sitting there in the freezing cold, travelled thousands of km, many not knowing if they will get reimbursed. They are fighting for us, for all Canadians and are treated like trash.
The 3 organizers are Metis (First Nations) and Jewish and Christian. And they call them white supremacists.
I know the media does this - but having been there and seeing if first hand, it angers me more than I thought possible. My heart breaks for these kind heroic truckers.
ps for anyone wondering - I talked to a lot of truckers. They aren't leaving they say. Apparently there are thousands more on the way. Road blocks are set up so they can't get in, but they are coming in small waves. Also all around Canada there were huge convoys in cities and small towns on the weekend. In Regina there must have been tens of thousands of trucks at one convoy. This is not ending. But it could end faster if the lazy middle normie truckers just stopped working for 1 week and it would all end. Come on lazy middle, support your brothers, take 1 week off and we'd get our country back.
There is also some big road block at an Alberta/US border crossing I heard. There were couple thousand vehicles on the weekend and a bunch remain. It is illegal to block road like that so RCMP have been called in. Not sure of status. But again, this isn't over and people are more and more pissed