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Greg Wycliffe
- January 14, 2025
Lessons from Convoy 2025
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7 minutes
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180.70734
Word Count
1,400
Sentence Count
78
Hate Speech Sentences
1
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Has Convoy 2025 already been canceled? Was it because of the single TikTok and few tweets that
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I made? Am I trying to prevent Canadians to have their right to protest? Just wanted to follow up
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on this because there's a lot of weird sort of banter going on online and it's a good teachable
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moment. So Government Corrupt is the account that started this whole protest idea. Here's
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him taking credit for it. I was the one that started this entire thing. It showed me how
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there are so many cowards living in this country. Since people like myself have criticized the
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problems with his protest idea, he's also said the people who want to shut me up are the ones
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running the PSYOP. First of all, if your protest is shutting down already simply because someone
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like myself has made a very simple TikTok video poking holes in it or criticizing why it's probably
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not a good idea, maybe your protest movement isn't all that it's cracked up to be. As a reminder,
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my whole premise was I really feel like this protest will just be used by the political
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establishment. The Conservative Party could use it or the Liberal Party could use it to their benefit
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as well. It would not help the Canadian people. Here's a picture of Parliament Hill in 2010 when
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Stephen Harper prorogued Parliament. Future Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also attending these rallies
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to protest Stephen Harper proroguing Parliament. So protesting the prorogation of Parliament is
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nothing new. And as we can see from that previous example, it's something that political parties
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benefit from or get on board with. My whole point with Convoy 2025 being about protesting Trudeau
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proroguing Parliament is this would probably just benefit Pierre Polyev. Why would I promote a protest
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that would only benefit the Conservative Party of Canada? Need I remind you that there is ongoing
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court proceedings with people who are at the convoy? There's still these legal fallout of people who
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are protesting at the 2022 Trucker Convoy. I say that because the other direction this protest could
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go in would be benefiting the Liberals, i.e. maybe they will create some crackdown. Maybe they will
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try to flare up all of this media about how these bad people are back and try to use that to their
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benefit. But even aside from all of that, let's get down to the real teachable moment here, which is
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what is the point of this protest? What is the benefit? What do we think the people are going to
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get out of this? With the Trucker Convoy in 2022, it was very clear, we don't want vaccine mandates
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anymore. And that started to happen as the protests proceeded. Success. And that's what I'm asking
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about this Convoy 2025. We're protesting the prorogation of Parliament, which has happened before,
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and the outcome has only been to support the opposition parties. Maybe you want to say,
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no, we want an election now. We want an election now. Okay, what would that look like? How was that
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going to happen? We're just going to all show up there. Again, this is why I'm saying the only benefit,
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the only outcome of a protest like this would be, we might as well all wear conservative party t-shirts
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and say, let's get Polyev in there quick. And if that's what you believe in, then fine, go do that
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protest. It's just something personally that I would not support because I don't support these
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establishment parties because I don't think they have our best interests in mind. And the guy who
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started this is like, it's sad how people in this country are too afraid to protest. They're too
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afraid to protest their government. And this is why I'm making this video. Do we not learn anything
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from the original Trucker Convoy? Since then, there's been all of these little protests going,
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there already was a Convoy 2.0, by the way, that was very embarrassing. And it's because of this
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ongoing problem that people who are frustrated with their governments can't seem to come up with a good
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idea of how a protest should actually go and what the actual outcome would be. We got lucky
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with the Trucker Convoy. And even that could have been more successful. The main problem with a lot
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of these right-wing protests is there is not a singular goal in mind. There was people doing
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like the fuck Trudeau things in the parking lots. The last thing was like a free the children or save
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the children convoy, which was sort of about vaccines, but also sort of about, you know, the
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gender indoctrinations in schools. It was all very unclear. And even the guy who organized this one,
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he has a tweet from yesterday, the flow of money, the central bank is the root cause.
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That's what we need to end. No central bank, no government funding, no funding, no mass immigration.
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Buddy is all over the place. He's all over the place with his messaging, with what he's trying
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to accomplish here. I am all for people, Canadians who are frustrated to build something, to have a
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singular goal in mind, to try and accomplish something that will, you know, make change in this
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country. But this idea, when we just take our desperation and our frustration and just show
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up in Ottawa and think that's going to change anything, I'm sorry. We've, we've seen this time
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and time again that it does not work. And folks, let's not forget what happened right after the
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2022 convoy. It got co-opted by the Conservative Party of Canada. All of a sudden, this establishment
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party is totally on board with being against mandates, even though they supported them the entire
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time. This was a disgusting display of controlled opposition of an establishment party, usurping
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a political movement to their benefit. Poliev rose to stardom as the Conservative Party leader while
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never speaking about Chris Barber, Tamara Lich, anybody who made major sacrifices to protest the vaccine
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mandate. So we know that if you are going to make a political movement or protest and try to change
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something, people are going to show up to try and co-opt that movement who are part of the political
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establishment. And I found it very interesting that even government corrupt in one of his tweets says
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any call to action will be destroyed by chaos agents, provocateurs, controlled opposition, or useful
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idiots. And he's right. But the problem is with the simple criticisms people have made of your
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prorogation protest, you haven't really addressed any of my claims of like, hey, won't this just be used
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by establishment parties to their benefit? Still haven't answered that. And look, I know things are
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frustrating. Greg, like, why can't you just let people protest? You can go and do that if it's going to
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make you feel better. I just want a real solution. I don't want to give, I don't want to give my enemy some
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like a political football to bat around. And it really seems like that's what this protest would be.
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Something that establishment parties can use to their benefit, not to the benefit of the Canadian people.
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The solutions are going to be boring and hard work guys. It's not going to be an easy solution to
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turn this country around because as I just mentioned, you know, any sort of political
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movement will try to be co-opted by those already in power. What I'm personally doing is I've started
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safefreespeech.ca. I've become a free speech watchdog in Canada. Anyway, I'm just giving you an example of
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this, this stuff takes a lot of work. You can't just take your frustration and show up on Parliament Hill
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and think that you're going to turn the country around. And one last thing as well, Government
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Corrupt said, people are still blasting out videos and posts about me. I'm living rent free in their
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head. Yeah, you have over a hundred thousand followers. I'm making videos about this because
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you're spouting a bunch of nonsense or you're just not, you're not sending out a good message.
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So I'm just clocking you on that because I think it's important for people to understand
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how politics actually works in this country.
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