Juno News - March 23, 2022


Convoy organizer calls success in Ottawa just the start


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In this episode, we sit down with a trucker who was caught up in the "Three Way Convoy" and talks about the events that took place on the 28th and 29th of July. We talk about the impact of the three-way convoy and the impact it had on Canadian truckers across the country.

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00:00:00.000 What were your favorite moments of the three-way convoy?
00:00:05.000 There's so many moments. My absolute favorite was arriving on the 28th and seeing that line
00:00:12.900 of thousands of people from Quebec who had some of the most oppressive COVID restrictions who
00:00:19.700 couldn't leave their houses say, screw it, I'm going. They crossed the bridge on foot
00:00:25.460 into Ontario and they had both Canadian flags and fleur-de-lis and signs that said freedom
00:00:33.760 and liberté and they went to meet with truckers from out west from Saskatchewan, BC, Alberta, Manitoba
00:00:41.860 and everybody was hugging each other and getting along. It was amazing. And did you expect Trudeau
00:00:48.960 to implement the Emergency Measures Act or go as far as he did? No, I knew he was an extremist
00:00:55.180 and I knew he was going to keep doubling down. But I figured at some point, somebody with
00:01:01.040 a brain would have spoken to him and said, listen, all these other countries around the
00:01:06.120 world, they're dropping their restrictions. Maybe we should do the same, right? Maybe.
00:01:11.480 But do you feel that you moved the needle in terms of dropping the restrictions?
00:01:16.120 You know, like I keep putting online, a hashtag nothing to do with truckers. We keep seeing
00:01:20.960 these mandates across the country being dropped. I mean, first you notice they started testing
00:01:26.000 messaging. As always, they would sit on the fence. One day they're going to remove them.
00:01:31.460 The next day they're not so sure. They realized the vast majority of people wanted an end to
00:01:36.340 all of this. And we saw all these restrictions start to fold. And now we just got to make sure
00:01:43.140 that this continues and we push back to get more of our freedoms back.
00:01:46.760 And you had a personal interest in this because you are a trucker.
00:01:51.040 Yes, I am.
00:01:51.920 You have a truck and you went through COVID driving your truck. Is that correct?
00:01:56.400 Yeah. And the entire time I didn't have, I mean, I'm vaccinated, but there's no requirement to,
00:02:02.440 you know, papers, please. It was not, I didn't have to show my papers or a QR code. And then once
00:02:09.940 that happened, that's when I started to get most worried because I know what that's going to lead to.
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00:02:29.440 but you may get more of a orی loop acting .
00:02:33.180 Yeah. You're not living.