Juno News - February 20, 2019United We Roll! The Convoy for Canada reaches Parliament Hill!
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Summary
The United We Roll Convoy for Canada protest. They came from all over Canada to protest the lack of progress in getting pipelines built, the carbon tax, and open borders. Despite media reports saying that a lot of people in this movement are racist or bigoted, the people I spoke to today seem like average folks that are concerned about their livelihood and the prosperity of Canada.
Transcript
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We're here for the United We Roll Convoy for Canada protest.
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They arrived from all over Canada, coast to coast to coast, to protest the current governments
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and their lack of performance in getting pipelines built, the carbon tax and open borders.
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Despite media reports saying that a lot of the people in this movement are racist or
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bigoted, the people I've spoken to today just seem like average folks that are concerned
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about their livelihood and the prosperity of Canada.
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If you look over here, there's dozens of trucks blocking the road in front of parliaments.
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Most of the people that are here, they came from Alberta, they're upset with the Trudeau
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government and their inability to get pipelines built and they're disillusioned and don't
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think that the consultation process will result in the pipeline being built.
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They think that the Trudeau government just want the pipeline to pander to out west and
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then they don't think that the government has any plans to actually get the pipeline built.
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So in the coming days we'll have a report for True North.
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