Juno News - May 01, 2022


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


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4 minutes

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168.63696

Word count

718

Sentence count

46


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Rolling Thunder Bike Demonstrations in downtown Ottawa, Canada. I talk to the participants of the rally and offer advice to those who don't like the presence of the Freedom Fighters in their city and the Chief of Police and the Mayor.

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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.