ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Live from the trucker protests with Kian Simone & Lincoln Jay
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This is a special trucker edition of the show with special guest Kian Simone aka Key 2. Kian is a trucker in Coototot, Alberta, Canada who has been blocking the border between the United States and Alberta for the past 7 days.
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welcome back to another episode of andrew says this is a special trucker edition i know you've
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been waiting for this we're gonna go to kian simone right now aka key two he's blowing up
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all over the planet right now kian how are you doing i know your time is tight so we're getting
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you in as fast as possible tell everybody where you are first of all yeah so i am in coots alberta
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in my exact location right now is in the uh unfinished basement of this unfinished bar
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that is all the truckers uh so i apologize for the uh horrible background here but
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uh yeah it's absolutely freezing here um been here for about seven days now uh assess it's
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the living conditions aren't the best now it's a little bit different from ottawa you want to tell
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people exactly what's going on american viewers are of course hitting you up all the time trying
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to get the 411 and what's going down uh this is just literally truckers blocking the border between
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the united states alberta and montana is it not yeah yeah i started off with the truckers uh last
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saturday about it was roughly 10 000 truckers were here doing a slow roll just circling the border
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and uh i guess internally about 300 of them decided well let's just block it let's let's get
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their attention they don't care if we're if we're going slowly through here right so they wanted to
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do they wanted to have maximum effect to get uh the attention of jason kenney and and justin
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trudeau and and because it's a border it got the attention of joe biden too and uh that's that's
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exactly what you said there america's wondering what the heck is happening because
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this is like uh this border it it cuts off if it's blocked it cuts off all of northwestern america
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to alberta there's two other borders here but no not nothing like this one this is this is the big
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border this is the this is the main border to united states from western canada of course the media says
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obviously that's crazy people all the protests or you know everything i think trudeau said sexist
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misogynist racist uh islamophobic anti-semitic probably something about you know space being
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fake in there i don't know uh flat earthers you tell me but uh what's the general sentiment around
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the area and alberta right now do you think are people supporting it well andrew is uh at the first
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it was just a bunch of dirty smelly truckers and now all their families are here so there's a block
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rcp checkpoint just north of here 18 kilometers away where there's almost more kids
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than there is adults you know family families are here it's like a camping trip it's that that's
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exactly the sentiment it's there's there's no racists there's no sexists there's no misogynists
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it's it's all it's really it's just god-fearing people here who are who are sick and tired of the
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mandates and uh and on the inside it's it's the local support here um so so that would be the
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sentiment around alberta the local support here is insane um just beside me here i'm looking they
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said they had 5 000 water bottles they have enough food to feed these guys for another few weeks and
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more and more coming in and uh just just to touch on on how the food is getting in i brought up the
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rcp checkpoint you're not allowed to drive um food into here you have to have it sanctioned by the rcmp
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so there's a few there's been a few trucks i got through but people are walking from milk river
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18 kilometers that's a four hour walk and last week was minus 40 and people are walking to give
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these guys fuel water medicine food that's that's i think that's the best way to um to put together
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how alberta feels about this i was going to ask you about the rcmp blocking it because at first it was
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just rumors and then i was thinking you don't really even see that during you know global
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conflicts usually supplies and medicine are not supposed to be attacked and you're supposed to
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let that go through even the front lines i think that goes back probably hundreds of years that rule
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but what is the thought process do you think behind the rcmp saying we don't want people to
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to bring supplies in and you have to you know seek our permission they did not want more people to
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block it i guess or i can take it a step further uh just to add a point there i just got uh off an
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interview and this is uh this is exclusive so you'll be the first to hear um this they uh they're
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blocking caretakers for the elderly who are locals and coots because they're not residents so there's
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three older ladies here who uh two of them can't get out of bed and haven't been able to get out of bed
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or get their medicine because they don't know which ones to take because the rcmp isn't even letting
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nurses in to take care of local residents so the thought process of the rcmp uh one of them
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commented on the on the nurse situation to one of the uh of caretakers who drove out there the older
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elderly lady who needs a nurse drove out there and uh gave him her two cents and he had no idea
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that the rcmp from the top was ordering this that not even caretakers can come in so the guys on the
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ground you know you could you could see some of their faces they don't want to be here um they're
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some of them are walking around giving out stickers and tattoos to the kids and shaking
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everyone's hands and you know it's there's it's good that the cops are here because you know there's
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always going to be that one guy who who goes off the of the of the deep end and says things and
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and ruins it for everybody and i think the cops are are mainly here in their own minds to
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really protect and serve but it's the people at the top that are enforcing this blockade uh to the
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blockade it's it's a weird psychological uh tactic there i i feel um they're they're the real evil ones
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in this situation in my opinion now in ottawa famously there's the uh no honking of course and
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the no supplying fuel as a misdemeanor or um you know supplying something to a misdemeanor or something
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like that has there been any ticketing or any arrests in there or any talk of that yet
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uh there there was one arrest a teenager tried to sneak in he was drunk he had nothing to do with
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any of it he just wanted to come see what's going on that is the only enforcement um so far there was
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that try of enforcement uh last week um uh they they had a standoff at the i believe it was tuesday
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those 50 rcp officers all kind of um lined up in a big line and and and walked forward and then the
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300 truckers just ran they formed their own line and just they just walked slowly at each other it
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was so peaceful so canadian so weirdly canadian and rcp there was like no communication they just
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all turned around at the same time we're like nope not doing this and that's the only real enforcement
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that i have seen so far now do you think that the things are do you think
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the the government's going to listen to this because we've seen now that they're saying
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you know we're going to make a plan and if the hospital stays you know on uh what's the word
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i'm looking for here the hospitals don't overflow we're going to lift them what's the uh what's the
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rationale there do you think and what's the other side of the story uh to put in a nice rebel news
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tagline there um why can't they just lift them right now are the people representing the truckers
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decided saying that just lift them right now or they do you think they're okay with there being
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a delay to things and a gradual plan personally i don't believe if they're going to say oh uh down
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the line we're going to do it i don't personally believe them but maybe there's been negotiations
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what's going on with that do you think well uh it i actually had a few guys tell me this uh
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i say you know how long are you going to stay here and they say two weeks to flatten the curve
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look how far like look how long that took right they're not leaving um they don't want a plan they
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want the mandates lifted now so what i've heard is that from today we're filming this uh what day is
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it today today's a tuesday yeah um today's tuesday it's around three o'clock so five thirty five o'clock
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today jason kenney makes an announcement and he said it's a plan to slowly uh lift mandates starting
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with vaccine passport and these guys aren't leaving until it goes all the way down to those stupid
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arrows in our grocery stores they want it all gone all of it i think i well we've seen from
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pulling that at least half of canadians if they're going to follow the polls on other things they
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should follow them on those things last question to you kian uh on a more friendship level my good
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sir how are you feeling about all this um all these different networks reaching out to you you're
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you're becoming the star that we all knew you are how are you feeling about it is it fun exciting
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time is it super stressful do you just want to go home and get some sleep for once how are you feeling
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i think it's all three of those um you know i've been i've been dreaming about uh doing a story
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that just that just shows that i'm capable of doing a story uh as as weird as that sounds um i've had a lot
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of my heroes from when i first got into this stuff reach out to me and say hey keep up the good work
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and that's the kind of stuff that's keeping me going while i'm i'm freezing my butt off out here
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um and yeah i i do want to go home i do but someone's got to stay here and tell the truth right
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for sure well we appreciate what you're doing i'm no way am i complaining about my situation here
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but i do want to go home how's a young sydney fazard doing how's he holding up he's good yeah he's he's
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he's doing real good he doesn't sleep much anyway so i think that this is all okay for him
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but i need my eight hours or i'm just a complete grump for those who don't know reporter sydney is
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likely foraging he's finding new creatures and uh discovering new species i'm sure out there of
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different plant life and uh recording them in his journal that's my interpretation of what sydney
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does from day to day is find different plant life all right keen anything else you want to add to
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the audience before we let you go and we're going to try we're going to hit up ottawa next and see
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what's going up there all right i think we covered all the bases so far i think uh it's just important
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to um to stay to stay updated on this kind of stuff because no other media is telling the truth and no
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other media is so close um closely embedded in the story so it's uh i think i think what we're doing
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is really important and uh yeah godspeed all right thanks a lot man have a good one you stay safe and
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we're now entering the second yes the second portion of this episode i'm wearing a different
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shirt as you can tell because we brought in lincoln jay from ottawa yes that's his real name
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um he was very busy we had to move it around a bit but we're thankful to have you here young man
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how are you doing lincoln andrew thanks for having me on the show how's it going in toronto
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it's going pretty good here um how long you want to tell everybody how long you've been in ottawa for
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now well i came down on the 28th of january um expecting to be here for two days i guess no one
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really knew how long uh the truckers convoy was going to go on for so i packed a bag with uh enough
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closed for a couple days and here we are almost two weeks later
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so the protest has been going on for so long now has it gotten weaker stronger has it been the same
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are people responding to you know the political and police intimidation that we're seeing
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honestly i've seen i don't think i've seen many trucks leave at least that's what it feels like in
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the downtown court it feels like all the trucks are still here and all the truckers that we speak to
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they have no no intention on leaving anytime soon so here we are the mentions let's go over a couple
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of the claims here while i have you the mentions of the jerry cans being something you can be charged
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with how have the people responded to that to be honest in a very nonchalant way like i said everyone
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i've spoken to uh they're not intimidated by that they feel like it was just like a intimidation
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factor used by the police and we only got reports and videos of those incidents on the first night
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that the state of emergency was declared so this past sunday so a lot of the truckers here on the
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ground think that it was just a intimidation method and we haven't really seen much fuel seizure since
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then now what about the honking i believe there's been an injunction placed on it did that last for any
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period of time were people actually scared to be honking their horns well to be honest with you
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for the first what like 10 days that i was here it was just all you could hear was honking all day and
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all night early morning it was just non-stop honking but as of monday it's been completely silent
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there there is literally no honking so i don't know if i don't know if that's because of the
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injunction or if it's a way for the truckers to kind of play the game and it gives the government
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the police here in ottawa one less thing to to complain about and to use as a reason to to try
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and get the truckers out so that's that what's the reaction on the ground like to all the claims of
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you know the day one they had the flags and everything and now you've got all say the crazies coming out
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the royal highness queen romana patrick king these type of people is there a response on the ground
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from this type of thing or people just carrying on as usual and hoping that they don't you know
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group them all in with those people no they i think they're just paying no attention to that like we saw
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queen romana uh burning a flag we literally saw her burning a canadian flag and there was outrage on
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the ground it was just like it was just like a she has like her own following her own group it was a
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group of about about 30 individuals who just showed up on parliament hill and decided they
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were going to burn a canadian flag and that's the complete opposite of what the people here
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the complete opposite message of what the people here are trying to to display there's canadian flags
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everywhere i guess it's just like a real patriotic community here everyone just wants
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the old canada back and the fact that she came here and burns a flag on parliament hill i just
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there's just no way to wrap your head around that yeah it's just screaming like government uh
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psyop but that's just my opinion everybody don't worry about that you said it for me
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i want to also ask you we've seen you on hannity now on the hill a whole bunch of american stuff
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what do you think is the general american reaction to what's going on from what the
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type of questions they've been asking you and everything
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i honestly think they just feel bad for us i think they that that's the bottom line they just feel
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sorry for what canadians are going through like i said on hannity you know it's been really tough to
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be a canadian over the past two years and i think that's why you're seeing uh ron de santis the
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state in florida you know other people sticking up for us and trying to make a difference because
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they can clearly see that what's happening is just not right there's something really weird going on
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all right lincoln i'm going to let you go but give us a prediction do you think
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the mandates are actually going to end during this or do you think the truckers go home or is it
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yeah it's it's really tough to tell at this point to be honest uh it's unprecedented what's happening
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right now uh a lot of people on the ground here do believe that there is a possibility of the
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mandates being lifted we are seeing a bunch of different things happening with saskatchewan
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alberta lifting mandates so there is hope on the ground here for sure that's what i'm gathering
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just from being out here but as i'm sure you've seen it just doesn't look like justin trudeau is
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giving it any consideration at this point he's sticking to his narrative and uh it seems that he
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wants to follow that all the way through so i guess we'll just see what the days weeks however
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long it may take uh for the truckers to leave for the mandates to end we just don't know i guess
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we're gonna have to see all right lincoln i'm gonna let you go here international superstar reporter
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lincoln jay my friend good luck out there stay safe and keep up the good work okay
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thanks so much for having me on andrew appreciate it all right no problem see you soon buddy