Greg Wycliffe - April 08, 2022


Laid Off Painter gets emotional at Trucker Convoy in Ottawa


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

177.23685

Word Count

449

Sentence Count

75


Summary


Transcript

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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00:02:24.000 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.