Juno News - May 01, 2022


What do Rolling Thunder protesters have to say to the residents of Ottawa？


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

168.63696

Word Count

718

Sentence Count

46


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I would say for the Ottawa people to come down and meet with us and talk to us
00:00:04.780 and see why we believe the way we believe.
00:00:08.360 And that is about democracy at a level where you can understand and agree to disagree.
00:00:17.860 Elikate Nautel here for True North in downtown Ottawa,
00:00:22.900 where the Rolling Thunder bike demonstrations are taking place.
00:00:28.160 Behind me, right now, there are thousands and thousands of people gathered on the hill to celebrate their freedoms.
00:00:36.340 However, the people that are not celebrating this are some of the residents of Ottawa
00:00:40.520 that did not like the presence of the previous Freedom Convoy
00:00:44.100 and also aren't happy to see that the Freedom Fighters are back in town.
00:00:49.480 So I wanted to ask the participants of this rally if they had anything to say to those who do not want them here.
00:00:56.740 There's people in Ottawa that maybe watch CBC and they're a little bit disconcerted
00:01:01.980 or maybe upset that Freedom Fighters are here this weekend.
00:01:04.800 What do you have to say to those people?
00:01:06.960 God bless you. I love you guys.
00:01:10.240 And I hope that you guys are having a good weekend.
00:01:13.640 And I hope that you guys understand that I do this for you too.
00:01:17.320 So what I say to you is instead of listening to what the news tell you
00:01:21.960 and the chief police and the mayor, come out here and see it for yourself.
00:01:28.360 Take the time to talk to people.
00:01:30.280 Don't listen to what your bureaucrat government people are going to tell you
00:01:33.560 because they're going to tell you what's ever best for them.
00:01:37.180 This is a good thing and it's freedom.
00:01:40.880 And if you want to, you know, what's going to happen when you want to protest their freedom
00:01:45.140 and you're not allowed to do that no more, you know?
00:01:48.680 So you don't need to be free.
00:01:51.420 These are people who love and care and want to dialogue, you know?
00:01:56.880 Come and check it out.
00:01:58.740 This is our capital.
00:02:00.340 This is where we have to protest what's going on.
00:02:02.900 Where are we going to protest?
00:02:05.640 Take a breath.
00:02:07.020 Take a breath.
00:02:07.880 Watch what you're watching on your news or whatever.
00:02:10.940 And then take a breath and just hold on to that.
00:02:13.420 Come down and talk to people down here and see for yourself.
00:02:16.880 I don't want to put, I don't want to tell you, hey, we're wonderful people.
00:02:20.980 Everybody's got bad people in them.
00:02:22.760 But come down here and talk to people for yourself.
00:02:25.980 Stop listening to the news, just the news only.
00:02:29.200 There's more to the story.
00:02:30.700 What I have to say is that if you were in some of our shoes
00:02:34.740 and you did not have all your rights, you would be as outraged as us.
00:02:39.560 But when you follow what the government and you trust what the government tells you,
00:02:43.900 but you can find when Trudeau says follow the science,
00:02:47.320 you can follow the science in the exact opposite way and you can see the truth.
00:02:52.180 I would say for the Ottawa people to come down and meet with us and talk to us
00:02:57.360 and see why we believe the way we believe.
00:03:01.480 And that is about democracy at a level where you can understand and agree to disagree.
00:03:09.260 And that's the main objective of having a unification in a democracy
00:03:16.780 and knowing that people don't always agree with ideologies that maybe they think are wrong.
00:03:25.080 I believe in God.
00:03:26.700 This is my statement.
00:03:28.620 And I accept anything that happens in the world that is not me, myself.
00:03:34.160 I can change myself, but I cannot change other people's opinion.
00:03:37.080 So if I accept other people, I believe that everybody can accept different choices.
00:03:42.720 All these rallies, it's just like a matter of a certain amount of days.
00:03:48.100 We can accept this exposure, so why not?
00:03:51.720 I understand it's a little bit noisy, but we came here for freedom.
00:03:55.780 If it wouldn't be a reason, we wouldn't be here.
00:03:58.200 So for me, it's something that we can respect.
00:04:01.680 As you saw, the participants had friendly and respectful things to say to the people of Ottawa.
00:04:07.080 And encourage them to come down to the hill to see the demonstration for themselves.
00:04:13.340 For True North, I'm Ili Cantain Hotel.