Juno News - June 04, 2022


Pearson Airport staged a fake freedom protest


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4 minutes

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888

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51

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4

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The Toronto Airport Authority wanted to test what a protest would look like if there was one at Pearson Airport, so they hired a bunch of fake protesters to dress up like truckers and pretend to be a trucker. It's the ultimate mockery of the working class.

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00:00:00.000 This is just so typical of the establishment in Canada.
00:00:03.840 So apparently the Toronto Airport Authority wanted to do some kind of an emergency drill
00:00:10.040 of what it would look like if there was a protest at the airport.
00:00:15.040 And so they paid a bunch of fake protesters, a bunch of actors,
00:00:19.180 got paid to stage a fake protest at the airport to see how the emergency response team
00:00:26.660 over at Pearson Airport in Toronto would react and put together.
00:00:31.320 Of course, the protest that they chose was a kind of like a freedom convoy makeup.
00:00:39.140 They basically replicated the idea of a freedom convoy.
00:00:44.040 They had all these people with their fake freedom signs.
00:00:47.740 And the whole thing was just a terrible mockery.
00:00:50.400 Basically just a bunch of people making fun of the working class, essentially.
00:00:55.120 I don't know what other way to put it, but this is what it looks like.
00:00:59.720 I think we have a clip of this one, don't we, Harrison?
00:01:01.840 Yeah, we do.
00:01:03.060 Yeah, let's throw to that clip because it's just really astonishing.
00:01:09.200 A scene unfolded at Pearson Airport today that could have fooled onlookers.
00:01:14.120 Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
00:01:18.220 So today we're having a mock emergency exercise happening.
00:01:22.040 So we're testing our response to an emergency or security situation.
00:01:25.880 So we've got protesters in the back who have been very enthusiastic
00:01:30.560 about playing their roles, and we've been testing our response to it.
00:01:35.360 Yes, as you can see, people, both volunteers and airport employees,
00:01:39.300 getting into character for the fake protest.
00:01:41.560 The exercise is actually a requirement by Transport Canada.
00:01:45.020 The GTA says it's an important way to test the airport's emergency response.
00:01:52.620 So at least they admitted that it was, you know,
00:01:55.320 the CBC didn't pretend like it was a real protest or something like that.
00:01:58.060 But give me a break.
00:01:59.600 I mean, what a waste of everybody's time.
00:02:01.660 And again, just like the, just how quickly they'll be to go and,
00:02:05.560 and denigrate and make fun of the sort of protesters that they don't like.
00:02:10.020 I would, I would, I would love to see them do a fake airport protest, 0.92
00:02:14.480 you know, staged with a bunch of terrorists from the Middle East 0.89
00:02:17.820 or something like that.
00:02:18.600 You know, like people who've actually attacked airports in the past,
00:02:21.160 but, but this, this sort of mock imaginary protest
00:02:24.080 where they just get to dress up like their favorite trucker
00:02:27.360 and pretend to, to, to be like a huge threat to the Pearson airport
00:02:32.020 was just pretty, pretty weird.
00:02:34.320 I don't know.
00:02:34.620 I don't know how else to describe it.
00:02:35.780 Pretty strange.
00:02:36.240 Well, the, I wrote on Twitter when the clip came out,
00:02:39.400 I was asking whether this was Monty Python or real life, 0.78
00:02:42.400 because it's just so, just so ridiculous, Candice. 0.67
00:02:45.560 And I mean, where, where can we start? 0.96
00:02:47.200 I mean, imagine.
00:02:47.880 So they just said that this was a part of Transport Canada,
00:02:50.300 which also oversees Canada's railways.
00:02:53.080 I doubt, Candice, that there has ever been a mock protest.
00:02:56.980 And I may be wrong, but at this point I would doubt it.
00:02:59.260 There's ever been a mock protest of when, for example,
00:03:02.040 railroads are blockaded and they have to test how they respond to that.
00:03:05.440 Because of course that doesn't really play into the narrative,
00:03:07.340 but there, there are some great shots in this, in this video.
00:03:10.560 Of course, first of all, the, the,
00:03:12.360 the spokesperson for the protest said that everyone was very enthusiastic.
00:03:15.920 I would say that they were slightly,
00:03:17.900 they slightly missed part of the character because they're all wearing masks,
00:03:21.380 which is just so, so typical.
00:03:24.140 And here we go.
00:03:25.500 The, the shot of the protest, a man wearing a mask saying masks are abuse.
00:03:30.860 And there's a Trump 2024 sign in there.
00:03:33.220 Uh, it's, it's really just the ultimate, uh, first of all,
00:03:36.800 it's the ultimate mockery of, of what I would consider the, you know,
00:03:39.220 the working class, right?
00:03:40.880 They put all these signs, they made all these fake signs.
00:03:44.480 Um, you know, just, it's just, it's just embarrassing.
00:03:47.400 And of course, I'm not sure if these were actors, Candice,
00:03:50.000 or if they were actually, uh, Pearson airport staff.
00:03:53.400 And if anyone has been paying attention to what's been going on in regards to
00:03:57.300 transportation in Canada, Pearson airport has been an absolute disaster.
00:04:01.280 They've been unable to, uh, clear security lines.
00:04:04.920 They've been unable to, uh, keep travelers moving.
00:04:07.740 It's becoming, it's becoming a huge problem for them.
00:04:10.280 And even blog TO wrote about this and said that it was a terrible idea because
00:04:16.440 they're basically shutting down a significant part of the airport,
00:04:19.740 which is already undergoing ridiculous delays because for some reason,
00:04:24.120 Canada is still holding onto these unbelievably, you know,
00:04:27.480 punitive travel restrictions that really just target specifically people that are
00:04:31.260 opposed to Justin Trudeau.
00:04:32.700 So there's so much to get into this, even blog TO, the, the, uh, the,
00:04:37.260 the liberals, you could say, like we had blog TO, even they took shots at it.
00:04:40.580 Cause it really was just a stunning display of, of, I don't know.
00:04:44.820 I don't know what to call it.
00:04:45.740 Like you said, I, I think it's just really a mockery of, of people who have
00:04:50.000 legitimate and real frustrations with the government.