Greg Wycliffe - February 06, 2022


The Last to Leave Ottawa？ Romanian Trucker Speaks Out!

Topics
racism protests leaving Ottawa
Hosted by
Greg Wycliffe
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Toronto Star Ceausescu Castro
The CBC Hates Proud Canadians The Fringe Minority

Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

152.15

Word count

1,376

Sentence count

221

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

1

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Summary

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In this episode, we have a special guest on the show, Chobo Vaz, who is a Hungarian-born Canadian living in the United States of America. He talks about his experience in the protest in Canada and what it means to be a Canadian.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, sir. Do you have time or do you have time?
00:00:03.640 Yeah, go for it.
00:00:04.340 All right, great. I am here with...
00:00:06.820 Chobo VZ.
00:00:08.200 And where are you coming from, sir?
00:00:10.140 From Windsor, Ontario.
00:00:11.260 And how long have you been here?
00:00:15.240 Eight days and three hours.
00:00:17.460 Let's go. Let's go.
00:00:19.260 What does this protest, what does this convoy mean to you?
00:00:22.480 What is it all about?
00:00:23.580 What it means to me?
00:00:25.140 Maybe my hope for freedom.
00:00:28.460 I lost my house devastated.
00:00:32.200 I lost my job.
00:00:34.060 I am the only provider in the family.
00:00:38.000 So there is no way back for me.
00:00:42.080 I'm going home glorious like Caesar or in a body bag.
00:00:47.660 Let's go. And I'm sensing an accent.
00:00:50.480 From Romania.
00:00:51.720 I'm born in Romania and my nationality is Hungarian.
00:00:54.660 So I speak two languages and I broke the English.
00:00:58.460 Right.
00:00:59.280 And everything going on, what does it remind you of in this country?
00:01:03.380 Revolution, what we have in Romania.
00:01:05.680 When we take out our dictator, the Ceausescu, if you guys remember that.
00:01:11.500 I don't remember nearly as well as you.
00:01:14.440 When I was 18 and I was hauling an axe on the streets back in Romania.
00:01:20.780 Wow.
00:01:21.600 So how does that compare to Canada?
00:01:23.360 Are we very polite compared to that or what?
00:01:25.360 Well, it's quite a while, but I never felt the way I feel right here.
00:01:32.920 All these people get united.
00:01:35.360 You know, I got to say this.
00:01:37.020 Somebody from Quebec came to me and he said, you know what?
00:01:41.220 I'm from Quebec.
00:01:42.420 And until now, I always said I'm a Quebecian.
00:01:46.520 But now, I become a Canadian.
00:01:50.100 That's beautiful.
00:01:51.180 That's beautiful.
00:01:51.780 So, in one way, we have to say thank you to Justin Trudeau.
00:01:57.400 Because he made this happen.
00:02:00.540 All these people came together.
00:02:03.240 You know, all this love what's on the street.
00:02:06.040 We can thank him.
00:02:07.780 Thanks, Justin Trudeau.
00:02:09.580 Thank you so much for that.
00:02:11.180 You made us all come together.
00:02:12.840 It's beautiful.
00:02:14.120 Do you watch the news in this country?
00:02:17.880 I try to stay away from the fake ones.
00:02:20.720 Yeah.
00:02:22.060 But when I have time, yes.
00:02:24.400 And have you seen how they're covering this protest?
00:02:28.100 Oh, it's like nothing happens here.
00:02:30.120 A couple days ago, the CTV came.
00:02:33.320 And they tried to make pictures from the empty street.
00:02:36.320 And people, they get so mad, they kind of kick them home.
00:02:41.280 That was awesome.
00:02:42.780 Because they didn't turn to see where the real action is.
00:02:47.260 No, they film empty streets.
00:02:49.040 Like, probably say, oh, it's not that bad.
00:02:51.480 Something like that or whatever.
00:02:52.960 I don't know.
00:02:53.960 A little bit dishonest.
00:02:55.400 A little bit.
00:02:55.880 Yes.
00:02:56.440 Not a little bit.
00:02:57.460 Big time.
00:02:58.280 There are people who see these reports.
00:03:00.800 And they actually think it's a bunch of fringe.
00:03:02.880 They actually believe it's a fringe minority.
00:03:04.740 Or that it's like racist.
00:03:06.320 What would you say to people who think that?
00:03:09.040 Man, I have friends from any color.
00:03:12.920 I have Spanish people, Chinese people, all kind of colors.
00:03:18.320 I have lots of friends, and they are great.
00:03:21.880 So there is no racism here.
00:03:24.860 No, not at all.
00:03:25.760 And let's say you were prime minister.
00:03:29.740 No, let's say you're prime minister.
00:03:32.020 Other than ending the mandates, and other than ending restrictions, what would be your number one priority after that?
00:03:38.660 You're prime minister.
00:03:39.280 Okay.
00:03:40.500 I will put some washroom on the street, because there is nothing right now.
00:03:45.700 Okay, that's a joke.
00:03:47.820 No.
00:03:48.000 No.
00:03:48.040 No.
00:03:48.100 No.
00:03:48.160 Well, I will totally end this mandate, okay?
00:03:52.660 I will pack all the vaccine, send them from wherever they came from, and I will say sorry for the previous government, what they did with the people.
00:04:04.520 You know, because they break so many lives, you know?
00:04:08.560 Yeah.
00:04:09.500 So many people, they lost their job, they hope.
00:04:12.540 Yeah.
00:04:12.860 But I hope everything is coming back now.
00:04:16.820 Yeah.
00:04:17.300 You hear that, Trudeau?
00:04:18.480 We would be apologizing for you.
00:04:21.340 I would vote for you, sir.
00:04:23.000 And one last question, one last question.
00:04:26.620 Who is Justin Trudeau's daddy?
00:04:30.080 Castro.
00:04:31.160 Yeah.
00:04:32.480 Yeah.
00:04:32.700 Yeah.
00:04:32.740 They look alike.
00:04:36.700 They definitely look alike.
00:04:39.360 I don't disagree with that.
00:04:41.620 I'm wondering when I'm going to hear him talking Spanish on the TV, other than French and English.
00:04:47.540 That will be nice.
00:04:51.320 And any last things you want to say to Canadians or about the Canadian pride you're feeling right now?
00:04:57.220 Well, I want to tell Canadians to do not lose hope.
00:05:00.460 I came here to Ottawa.
00:05:02.480 I was delivering hope.
00:05:05.480 And I'm going to go back with freedom.
00:05:08.360 So I'm going to have a load back home too.
00:05:11.000 Yeah.
00:05:11.180 Don't lose hope.
00:05:14.240 Don't lose hope.
00:05:15.140 It's already over.
00:05:16.240 Because we are not leaving.
00:05:19.500 No, we are not leaving.
00:05:21.200 And by the way, I'm going to be the very last truck leaving Ottawa.
00:05:25.040 The very last one.
00:05:26.060 And I mean it.
00:05:29.680 Trudeau, Trudeau, just end the mandates. 0.85
00:05:32.800 You know, we can all get home early.
00:05:34.360 Like, that would be great if you just did that for us.
00:05:37.400 That's amazing.
00:05:38.620 You can't eat anything?
00:05:39.780 Like food, drinks?
00:05:41.320 Oh, no.
00:05:41.840 We're great.
00:05:42.440 Have you been getting a lot of donations from people?
00:05:44.560 Oh, yes.
00:05:45.220 I also get money.
00:05:46.320 Man, one day somebody walked to me with 50 bucks and I said, thank you very much.
00:05:51.120 I don't need your money.
00:05:52.000 He said, it's not my money.
00:05:53.860 A stranger gave him $5,000 to spread it to the people.
00:05:59.960 Man, can you believe that?
00:06:01.760 Yeah.
00:06:01.980 There's a lot of big donations and big hearts behind the scenes.
00:06:05.780 Oh, yeah.
00:06:06.480 Yeah.
00:06:07.060 Even an older lady, poorly dressed, came to me with 20 bucks. 1.00
00:06:13.300 I didn't want to accept it, but she didn't want to walk away with those.
00:06:19.220 Wow.
00:06:20.160 Wow.
00:06:20.560 You know.
00:06:21.340 It's so beautiful, everything happening here.
00:06:23.300 I could talk to you all day.
00:06:24.460 Oh, touchy.
00:06:26.340 Same time here, I cried like 978 times already.
00:06:31.180 Come on.
00:06:31.980 900 times?
00:06:33.500 Oh, probably even more.
00:06:36.260 That's beautiful.
00:06:37.040 I wear sometimes my sunglasses just to cover my eyes.
00:06:41.560 Oh, that's a good one.
00:06:42.320 Yeah, it's amazing, man.
00:06:45.580 I never thought Canada can do such things like that.
00:06:49.920 How are the cops treating you?
00:06:52.180 Are they trying to kick you out or what?
00:06:53.840 Well, no, not really.
00:06:55.860 Since I'm here, first night I spent it at the War Museum.
00:07:00.400 In the morning I have to drive through the blockade.
00:07:03.740 Then over there it was another one.
00:07:07.760 I drive through that too.
00:07:09.720 They are okay.
00:07:10.960 They are nice guys. 0.68
00:07:11.800 As long as you don't act like a fanatic crazy guy.
00:07:15.040 And you gotta know, a couple days ago, at noon, I was talking with the police officer.
00:07:21.300 And after like a 50 minutes conversation, both of you were crying over there.
00:07:25.860 Both.
00:07:26.180 Both police officers were?
00:07:29.180 The police officer and me.
00:07:31.740 He was lucky because his face mask, you know, his tears stopped right there.
00:07:37.960 But mine was dripping from here.
00:07:42.140 At noon, right there, here in the middle.
00:07:45.060 I went to ask him a question and he was talking, talking.
00:07:48.080 We came to a point, both of us, we were crying.
00:07:53.120 What were you guys crying over?
00:07:55.520 Please, don't make me cry.
00:07:57.180 I don't want to...
00:07:59.900 About the whole thing, the whole movement, the people and...
00:08:04.020 The sense of community.
00:08:05.360 Yes, that's wonderful what's here.
00:08:07.920 You can feel the love in the air, man.
00:08:11.800 I mean it, man.
00:08:15.780 Man, it's something I cannot, you know...
00:08:19.640 With my broken English, I can't even turn it to a word.
00:08:23.020 But it's a great feeling.
00:08:24.700 And I'm glad I'm part of this.
00:08:27.340 Thanks so much for your time, sir.
00:08:28.980 You're welcome.
00:08:29.260 Thank you so much.
00:08:30.860 You can stay warm.
00:08:31.960 We have to go warm up because we're freezing.
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00:08:57.500 You may not know this.
00:08:58.560 You missed Toronto Star.
00:09:00.200 Say again?
00:09:00.860 You missed Toronto Star, man.