Greg Wycliffe - April 08, 2022


Laid Off Painter gets emotional at Trucker Convoy in Ottawa


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

177.23685

Word count

449

Sentence count

75


Summary

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The Freedom Convoy is a tribute to all the Canadian truckers who died in the protests against Justin Trudeau's government. The truckers are laid off from their jobs and the government is trying to shut them down, but they are fighting for their rights.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 How are you?
00:00:01.000 Yes, thank you very much.
00:00:02.000 Do you speak English or both?
00:00:05.000 Why are people here today?
00:00:06.000 Why to support our truckers, our rights, and the children's rights, and the upcoming children.
00:00:14.000 That's right.
00:00:15.000 This is our bread and butter.
00:00:16.000 Yeah.
00:00:17.000 Me, I'm a painter.
00:00:18.000 I've been laid off like two weeks ago, like it's 28 years.
00:00:21.000 Yeah.
00:00:22.000 Are you from Ottawa?
00:00:23.000 I'm from the Quebec side, but I work in Ottawa 28 years.
00:00:25.000 Okay.
00:00:26.000 In the painting business.
00:00:28.000 Yeah.
00:00:29.000 I've been laid off because of the COVID.
00:00:30.000 I do a lot of embassy and the government work.
00:00:33.000 Do you think the protests have been respectful or what?
00:00:35.000 Of course.
00:00:36.000 Of course.
00:00:37.000 There's nothing of a state of emergency here.
00:00:39.000 Nothing.
00:00:40.000 I don't know.
00:00:41.000 There's nothing.
00:00:42.000 Everybody, it's a big family.
00:00:46.000 It's a big family.
00:00:47.000 All respect, food, truckers respect everybody.
00:00:51.000 I don't know.
00:00:52.000 Two of those is like, this is a big family.
00:00:55.000 We stick up together for our rights and that's it.
00:00:58.000 And for our tribute.
00:00:59.000 Some people are saying they're feeling Canadian pride for the first time in a long time.
00:01:02.000 Are you related to that?
00:01:03.000 Yes.
00:01:04.000 Yes.
00:01:05.000 Yeah.
00:01:06.000 I'm from Quebec, you know.
00:01:08.000 So we're all a small family.
00:01:10.000 But it's the first time I see in Ottawa, like people stick together like this.
00:01:14.000 You know, big, big family.
00:01:15.000 And I like it, you know.
00:01:17.000 And I say to them, l'union fait la force.
00:01:20.000 Union fait la force.
00:01:21.000 Let's go.
00:01:22.000 Justin Trudeau isn't really listening to us, right?
00:01:25.000 His father, I thought he was worse, but I think he's getting worse than his father.
00:01:32.000 Yeah?
00:01:33.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:34.000 If you could talk to Justin Trudeau for 30 seconds, what would you say to him?
00:01:38.000 Yeah.
00:01:39.000 Give life a peace.
00:01:40.000 Give everybody freedom.
00:01:42.000 Freedom, you know.
00:01:43.000 We've got a freedom of choice here, you know.
00:01:45.000 You know, freedom of rights.
00:01:46.000 It's democracy.
00:01:47.000 Yeah.
00:01:48.000 Cooperative.
00:01:49.000 So, simple.
00:01:50.000 We're not a dictator world.
00:01:53.000 We're not a dictator.
00:01:55.000 Yeah.
00:01:56.000 We're not there yet, you know.
00:01:57.000 Yeah.
00:01:58.000 We're not communists here, you know.
00:01:59.000 No.
00:02:00.000 We're all a big family, you know.
00:02:01.000 So we've got to stick together.
00:02:03.000 And I like it.
00:02:04.000 See what we see, you're going to make me cry.
00:02:07.000 Okay.
00:02:08.000 Here.
00:02:09.000 Thank you, sir.
00:02:11.000 The freedom convoy may be over, but we are going to keep fighting for those freedoms.
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00:02:18.000 And if you want to support content like this, send an e-transfer to gregthecanadian at hotmail.com.
00:02:24.000 We're going to knock this fence down.
00:02:26.000 Metaphorically.
00:02:27.000 Okay?
00:02:28.000 We are going to get our freedoms back soon.
00:02:30.000 Thank you for watching.
00:02:31.000 We'll talk to you soon.