Ottawa Resident Tears Up at Trucker Convoy
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Summary
In this episode, I talk to a man who has lived in the city for 15 years and has been a part of the pro-choice movement. He shares his story of how he got to where he is now, and how he feels about the government's decision to shut down the strip mall in protest of the truckers.
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Explain your sign, if you will. It's for a YouTube channel.
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I saw the sign abandoned. I saw the sign abandoned.
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Someone, you know, having too much fun, so maybe they dropped it.
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But, yeah, I've been waiting a long time for this, and just, yeah, super emotional.
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So, I can't believe it, you know, a lot of, you know, we've seen a lot of the division,
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and, you know, especially against, I don't want to really bring it there, but, you know,
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a lot of these guys, Caucasian, white guys, and, you know, they've taken a lot of shit for a long time.
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Yeah, I wanted to come here to observe. I lived downtown my whole life,
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If they say we're shutting it down, then you know I'm coming even harder.
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What do you think about the citizens of Ottawa who are complaining about the honking,
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and this is not the right way to protest and all that? What would you say to the Ottawa citizens?
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Well, because I know these areas a lot, the Glebe, the downtown.
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You know, we live very nice, very good downtown.
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So, I'm very shocked that people cannot take two weeks of noise,
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but they can take the three years of all the changes.
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But I forgive them because they are also being, not brainwashed, but they're also being told different things.
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So, very emotional. I've been up and down all day, crying, happy, sad, but it's just incredible.
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And I always dreamed when I was a kid that Ottawa would, I would hope that Ottawa would be a place where something would happen.
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But, you know, there's so many other major cities in the world, so it would never happen in Ottawa.
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So, I just can't believe it, that Ottawa, and I'm older now, and I can fight, and I can, I just can't believe it, man.
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Ottawa is the place where it's happening. I honestly can't believe it, man. It's crazy.
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A lot of people are saying they're feeling Canadian pride for the first time in a long time here. Can you relate to that?
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Yeah, yeah, and I go all the way with work, you know.
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So, you know, 15 years, you know, and they threatened for the fire and everything.
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So, you know, off work with no pay and stuff, and I didn't prepare a lot in my life,
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because a couple chronic illnesses, you know, mistakes with the money, so I wasn't prepared a lot for, you know, this.
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So, it's really strange for them to get rid of these guys, the truckers, you know.
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Everything I own is from these guys. I remember as a kid, you know, the TV shows, commercials,
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they always made these guys seem like, you know, the worst guys, and now they're here, man.
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And they're not getting paid for sure, so it's just crazy. I'm talking way too much.
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I was talking to a normie friend last night. Thank you for sharing that.
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I was talking to a normie friend last night, and he was like, oh, I don't like what the government's doing,
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but those truckers, like, that's all, they're dumb. They're idiots.
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And it's just so, it's so, like, disheartening to hear how they are, like, brainwashed,
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or they're in that, like, they're so close-minded, you know.
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Yes. If things are of such a certainty, then we would all be getting the vaccine.
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If it was of a certainty, then we would all be doing the Band-Aid.
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But when there's the doubt and everything, then, you know, you can't do it like this.
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It's quite clear, and I'm praying, I'm asking these guys, don't move.
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So, don't leave us with the insane, don't leave us.
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You know, these guys, they never take a day off so we can.