The overwhelming support of Veteran James Topp
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Canadian Armed Forces veteran James Topp arrived in Ottawa on Thursday ending his monumental 4,000 kilometer walk across Canada in protest of federal vaccine mandates and other heavy handed restrictions. Topp was met with an army of freedom-loving supporters that were there to cheer him on and walk with him as he took his final steps of his incredible journey.
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Canadian Armed Forces veteran James Topp arrived in Ottawa on Thursday ending his monumental
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4,000 kilometer walk across Canada in protest of federal vaccine mandates and other heavy-handed
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restrictions. Topp was met with an army of freedom-loving supporters that were there to
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cheer him on and walk with him as he took his final steps of his incredible journey.
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And I wanted to ask some of these people why they made the trip to the capital to see and walk with
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James Topp. As a veteran I was inspired I had to come here I just had to like there was no stopping
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me nothing would stop me from being here and again to see how many people were here to meet James to
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see listen to his speech was I'm sure brought a tear to everybody's eye. I'm just so proud to be here.
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To be here it's a historical moment in Canadian history this James Topp who's walked from Vancouver
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to Ottawa for all of us he's not doing it just for himself but all of us and for me I was
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thinking this morning every kilometer of pain of perhaps despair of hope and wishing for Canada to
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wake up to me so like a wake-up cry like please let's wake up collectively. I came because I am in
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Canada and I've never been to Ottawa on Canada Day so this is going to be probably the biggest and the
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most memorable Canada Day we ever have 150th doesn't even won't even hold a candle to it I don't think so.
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I I've been following him on social media and I live in Montreal and I it's just my patriotic duty to
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come and support this guy for all the services that he's given and for all the strength that he's shown
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to walk every step that he's walked and I'm going to join him at the end. James left about what four
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months ago to come down here I find he didn't have the media wasn't out there like you know to to support him and
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uh I I was one of the bikes on the rolling thunder and I I said we got to support our military and uh support
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James. In response to Topp's anticipated arrival as well as planned Freedom Canada Day celebrations
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the city of Ottawa decided to restrict access to the downtown and the government of Canada installed fencing
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on Parliament Hill and at the Supreme Court. Given that James Topp's arrival was deemed to be a
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celebration I wanted to ask some of his supporters what they thought was there to fear. The narrative
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of fear continues with the mayor of Ottawa, the Liberal Party, the NDP, the press uh excluding the great true
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north of course um and it's easy to succumb to to fear and uh and uh and it's so it's a natural uh
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inclination to just stay away or to condemn instead of just using your critical thinking side I think we
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have Canadians we I implore my friends and my brothers and sisters in Canada to get uh to wake up. There's
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nothing to fear the last time there's nothing to fear this time except love if you want to stand back from
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that then I guess you better leave town because it's going to happen one way or another. I personally
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live downtown in downtown Ottawa and I was there at when the truckers were here I was there almost every
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night uh I never felt so much love I never got so many hugs I never was fed so freely um the the the
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homeless people were giving me food so yes it's a it's a huge huge misconception that there is any
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danger at all uh it's like the uh Ottawa convoy there was nothing the the only time that you feel
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scared a bit is when you see the all the cops showing up to where you are then you realize something's
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got to go on because there's too many cops that's when the that's the issue cops are having in Ottawa right
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now is they're being uh how could I say they're being uh people think that they're just coming
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towards them to stop them because that's what the mayor wants them to do like they're we're afraid of
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jaywalking so we don't get put in jail or stop or seize our trucks or anything you know if you look
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around everybody's respectful to each other even even when I was in Ottawa or even here today I talked to
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the cops they're nice you know everybody they're doing their job but there's always elites all higher
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than them they're stirring all this up you know what wouldn't have mattered what they blocked off
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the people got to meet James top you know what they the fact that he spoke in front of the war memorial
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and his speech about the war like look at that that those men and women that's what made Canada
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I'm sorry but that they couldn't stop us from being there as you saw a lot of Canadians were there
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very happy to support veteran James top as he ended his incredible march for more coverage of freedom
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