What happened to all the trucks in the protest in Ottawa? What happened to the trucks that blocked the streets of the city? Ben Hab, who was there on the ground filming the whole way through the protest, answers the question.
00:01:55.440Thank you very much. Thanks for having me on.
00:01:57.220Awesome. Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:02:00.680In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
00:02:07.500So, Ben, it was great to talk to you back then in the heyday of all that was going on.
00:02:14.120Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you're doing with this documentary.
00:02:18.480For sure. My name is Benjamin Hab. I'm out of northern B.C. in Canada, and I own a small production company,
00:02:27.480and we do mainly instructionals, industrial documentaries, safety orientations, and promotional videos.
00:02:35.620And we, a few of our friends were traveling in the convoy out east, and some of the reports they were sending back
00:02:45.640were vastly different than we were seeing on legacy media platforms.
00:02:49.880Some of them were calling that there was a violent string of trucks that were out to, you know, have mayhem and, you know, overthrow the government downtown in Ottawa.
00:03:05.880And what Bernd Buechert was sending me was vastly different from being on the ground.
00:03:13.260So, we originally went to downtown Ottawa to film a little five-minute expose of our experience,
00:03:21.780of what we were experiencing on the ground, and seeing how that might differ from legacy media.
00:03:28.640And our results were vastly different.
00:03:33.580What we were experiencing on the ground, what we were seeing with our eyes,
00:03:38.560the amount of celebration and love around was, it was hard, it was almost hard to see how different it was
00:03:46.580from what the government was saying, what the mainstream media was saying.
00:03:51.560And so, we knew we had to do something a little bit bigger, and that's where the documentary was born.
00:04:31.000I mean, to be fair, tens of thousands was probably a bit of a stretch, even from the get-go.
00:04:38.960I mean, you had the left-leaning media saying one thing.
00:04:43.740You had the extreme right saying a completely different thing.
00:04:48.120I think giving accurate numbers was a very difficult thing, because there were so many strings of trucks, and they were broken up with passenger vehicles as well.
00:05:03.660So, getting accurate numbers from any front was very difficult.
00:05:06.560But what we found, what was happening in Ottawa, the convoy was working alongside the police a fair amount to guide them into downtown.
00:05:18.820They knew they were doing a protest, so there was a fair amount of working together to make sure that this was happening safely.
00:05:24.980But what was happening was you'd get a string of 30, 40 trucks or trucks and trailers, or just some of the trucks just bobtailing, which means they don't have a trailer on.
00:05:39.540And they would be driving along, and all of a sudden, they would realize there was no additional vehicles behind them.
00:05:47.000And what the Ontario police were doing were marshalling some vehicles into areas that were off-site.
00:05:56.400There was a stadium just outside of Ottawa that the parking lot was full of trucks.
00:06:01.280There were industrial areas where trucks were brought to that were 10, 20 kilometers away from downtown Ottawa.
00:06:09.540Even Armprior still had a lot of trucks that were still there that didn't even make it anywhere near Ottawa.
00:06:17.360So, there was a lot of strategic things done in order to minimize the overall look of how many trucks were actually there.
00:06:31.360Whether or not that was very intentional or whether or not they were trying to just stop the congestion that was going to be happening downtown,
00:06:37.880it's really hard to say, but there was a lot of misdirection on where the trucks were going.
00:06:47.040Now, that being said, was it 10,000 to 50,000 trucks?
00:06:51.060I honestly, I can't think that it was that many trucks, honestly.
00:06:55.740The convoy that I was a part of was from the West, and when we were filming, I was excited to see what 50,000 trucks looked like.
00:07:15.420It was a very impressive string of millions and millions and millions of dollars worth of equipment driving on their way to Ottawa to protest.
00:07:24.560Now, you had an incredible clip of the Western convoy, a large percentage of them being blocked from entering at all.
00:07:34.740What happened there, if you could tell us?
00:09:00.580And they parked about six or seven trucks down there.
00:09:04.420But again, there was, there were so many, so many cops redirecting vehicles to be further away,
00:09:09.680so it was hard to get everything congested right downtown, like they were hoping.
00:09:13.000Right. So, you had talked to me about, in the stadium, there were trucks parked, in some abandoned malls, there were trucks parked?
00:09:21.860Yeah, there was parking lots everywhere outside of the town. Yeah.
00:09:24.600So, one of the other aspects that I found fascinating was, sometimes the truckers were blocked and decided to walk in anyways.
00:09:33.460Tell us the story about the Quebec blocking there.
00:09:35.820Oh, for sure. That was phenomenal. At the border from Quebec into Ottawa, there was a, there was a fairly large blockade from, from the officers with heavy equipment.
00:09:45.120And the, a large string of trucks from Quebec and from the east were blocked from getting downtown.
00:09:53.840And this was the very first day that we were down there.
00:09:57.060And so, the party, like, and I, and I, I say it's a party, it was a giant celebration.
00:10:03.260It was like, I, I, it was essentially like, like Canada Day, your 4th of July, on steroids.
00:10:12.940It was, you seen Canadian pride and, and, uh, uh, this, this massive, um, earnest love towards Canada being celebrated downtown.
00:10:27.260And Quebec was stuck on the other side of the border. They abandoned their trucks. They all got out, they walked across the bridge and they joined their fellow Canadians downtown and, uh, Albertans and Quebec, uh, Quebecers, they, they, they have a little bit of animosity towards each other once in a while.
00:10:46.600They, they, it's, it's, it's like a, a good hockey game there. You know, there's going to be a little bit rougher, rougher situations, uh, if, if the Quebec and, uh, Alberta was in a hockey game together.
00:10:58.740Uh, uh, but what you saw was like a genuine love for, for one another. There was hugging, you know, you see a, a, a, a, an Albertan Canadian with a big cowboy hat on and a Quebecer flying his Quebec flag.
00:11:12.880And they're hugging and crying together because they've, they've seen their, their freedom eroded in Canada and, and to have them come together in this kind of unity.
00:11:22.960Like we've never seen that kind of unity before. It's, it's, it was awe inspiring. And I, I knew every, every minute we had the camera rolling, we were capturing something special and capturing a piece of Canadian history.
00:11:34.680Yeah. That was so evident for everyone who was there. It was a party like none other, uh, but I don't mean party in that kind of sense of just, uh, for sure. I, I understand what you're saying.
00:11:47.520It was a deep, deep love and appreciation for one another. It was unbelievable. Never anything I've experienced like that before in, in a public setting like that. Um, so there was a huge beauty.
00:12:00.300And yet there was this mismatch between what was going on in the mainstream media, what was being said by the prime minister and the politicians, and then the reality of the situation.
00:12:10.720Just the other day, uh, we heard the report of the investigation into the truckers, the donations into the GoFundMe page saying that, nope, it wasn't as it was claimed that there was largely foreign donations.
00:12:23.16088% were from Canadians. Um, nope, they didn't find any, um, bad actors in the list. They went through and tried to investigate and see who might've, so it's a fake narrative coming, uh, that led to, you know, these, some of these really draconian measures, especially going after people's personal bank accounts.
00:12:41.820Uh, unbelievable. But just how did all that strike you as you experienced yourself, the convoy, and then saw the resulting emergency order act?
00:12:53.160And going after people's bank accounts. Now, uh, some of the trucker leaders, uh, arrested without possibility of bail and in shackles in court, as if there was some kind of threat to the public.
00:13:06.900Confusing, I would say to, to, to say it lightly. Um, it was, I always felt like there was little bits of bias on different, different, uh, outlets.
00:13:19.720You, you, you would take, uh, what you would see as a grain of salt. And, and, and I had a little bit of background with that. I, I, I film for legacy media quite often. If there's a story up and up in, uh, Fort St. John, they'll often hire our firm to go capture some footage and, and, and do it, conduct some interviews. And we have done that before.
00:13:41.220So I've seen the result also of what they've picked out of our footage. We'll have a whole interview based around something and they'll say, say something along the lines of like, well, you know, it's unfortunate that some of the farmers are losing their land.
00:13:56.360That the economic benefit is, is tremendous for our area. All they'll take is it's unfortunate. Some farmers are, are losing out on their land and they'll cut it there. They won't, they won't tell the whole sentence.
00:14:08.860So seeing that firsthand with the footage that we've prepared for legacy media, it, it, uh, it makes you second guess what you're, what you're watching.
00:14:17.360If that's the full story, because I could see it happening with our own footage that we were providing now to be down on town and filming the, the items that we're filming and, and seeing what their, what their focus is on.
00:14:31.920There, there was a Confederate flag that was downtown. There was a, a Nazi flag flown at one time.
00:14:39.280Uh, as soon as I seen those reports, um, I actively spent eight hours looking for one of those flags for looking for a Confederate flag for looking for these moments and I could not find it.
00:14:52.560Um, yet that was, that was the reports for the next two and a half, three weeks.
00:14:57.960And that was the basis of, um, um, what our prime minister was talking about with the level of racism and unacceptable behaviors was based on this one flag from one individual that, that I never, I could never find.
00:15:13.200I could never see that hate. I could never see that, um, firsthand. And I'm actively looking for it. I'm looking for these narratives that are being portrayed and are not able to confirm what is being said.
00:15:27.440And that's, that was a big eye opener for myself when, when something was so 180 degrees different than what I was, what I was seeing firsthand and trying to find these moments that I could confirm and, and, and have some semblance of trust in, in, uh, in legacy media.
00:15:46.760And I was having a very difficult time finding that. So that, that, that me, that was a big, wide, wide eye opener for sure.
00:15:56.220And, and a concerning one as well, because now you have to second guess everything that you're being told and it's exhausting.
00:16:03.200It is indeed. It is indeed. And it has real consequence. Consequence also for people who don't question and therefore turn on the neighbors.
00:16:12.640And it really is creating a division in Canada that, uh, is hopefully repairable, but it'll take a lot of work.
00:16:19.300Ben, uh, I want to thank you for joining us and also tell folks where they can get your documentary when it's ready.
00:16:24.760Oh, for sure. So, uh, we have, uh, a website. It's www.eaglevisionvideo.ca slash unacceptable doc.
00:16:34.800So it's unacceptable doc. And there we'll be slowly posting a few updates as we're going along.
00:16:41.500We're currently, uh, just outside of, uh, Indian head, Saskatchewan, traveling our way all the way, uh, back to Ottawa, grabbing more interviews as well with people that were, uh, having experiences, both with coots down at the coots border, down in Alberta, as well as, uh, all the way over to Ottawa.
00:16:59.720So we just met up with a, a truck driver in, uh, in, uh, Indian head called, uh, pretty boy Spencer.
00:17:06.800Uh, pretty boy was his radio handle. So most of the truckers went off their radio handles there,
00:17:11.180but, uh, if you want to see more updates, you can, you can find those on that website, which also links to our Facebook page, YouTube, Instagram as well.
00:17:19.980Awesome. Thank you so much, Ben Huff for being with us and, uh, God bless you.
00:17:26.160Likewise. I appreciate you having me on the program. Thanks again.
00:17:29.340Thank you. And God bless all of you. We'll see you next time.
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