In this episode, we talk about the Freedom Convoy protest in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, and how the government handled it. We discuss the government's handling of the protest, and whether or not they should have handled it any differently.
00:00:27.560that the government was trying to bring down upon them.
00:00:29.520think they should have had some conversation with them or treated the same as they do any other
00:00:33.520protests in ottawa right what happened to freedom in canada it disappeared overnight we didn't live
00:00:39.760in ottawa we didn't know it was we we just saw it on tv so i was yeah get them out of there i would
00:00:45.760say no for sure um again like as somebody who was there all i saw was peacefulness um we were there
00:00:52.320in like the beginning of it so people were handing out free food to others we were supporting all the
00:00:57.200businesses in ottawa i get a lot of people had a problem with the noise and i understand people
00:01:02.000who live there but it was also we were fighting for the freedom of people living in canada so we
00:01:07.360were trying to obviously make a difference i don't think it's fair to prosecute people who come
00:01:11.920together and protest and exercise our right to protest as canadian citizens what do you think
00:01:16.240they should have done spoken to the people heard them heard them out and then negotiated from there
00:01:24.000Was he justified though in also freezing their bank accounts and arresting like some 200 of them?
00:01:28.880When it comes to something like a convoy where you're expressing an opinion or matters of opinion,
00:01:34.080I think that freezing people's bank accounts might be a little extreme.
00:01:39.360I don't think so. I think it was a little much.
00:01:43.120Oh, that's messed up. That's messed up. I don't think that's right at all.
00:01:46.240What do you think it says about our government that they wouldn't even talk to these protesters?0.66
00:01:50.320They're a bunch of yellow-bellied carrots.1.00
00:01:53.440Liberals are nothing but a bunch of jerks.1.00
00:01:56.080I'm not going to comment on that because it's not friendly on TV or whatever you're doing here.1.00
00:02:05.120That they're not paying attention to the needs of Canadian citizens. I think if there's that much
00:02:09.200of an uproar of people and you see that many people gathering something needs to change
00:02:13.440to just kick them out and like my parents were there when the police started pushing in and it
00:02:18.000it got bad and it was one of the scariest things I've ever seen because everybody was being peaceful
00:02:23.320and it was the police who were pushing people away and I think that was scary and I think again
00:02:28.080like yeah it's all it says is all of these people are coming together and gather I think the
00:02:32.040government should take a hint and see that maybe it's for a reason. In a free country everyone has
00:02:36.480the right to protest but the way they treated that protest was very very heavy-handed and we don't
00:02:43.740see them as heavy-handed with other protests like especially like the pro-Palestinian protests the
00:02:47.860in Montreal that those lasted for like over a year there were about 12 protests and some of
00:02:53.400them were extremely violent and for those protests they made 109 arrests overall but for the freedom
00:03:00.620convoy protest that lasted three weeks they made about almost 200 arrests so is there do you think
00:03:08.600that they're overreacting to something like that yes I definitely think there's protest bias I think
00:03:15.980It's interesting when you can make a comparison like that, and it could indicate that there's some sort of bias, right?0.56
00:03:23.120The woman who actually organized the event and got the funding for it has been fighting legal battles for three years now.
00:03:29.380And they're still making accusations and stuff like that.1.00
00:03:33.240But she's actually facing seven years in prison for organizing that event.0.94
00:03:39.000it's merely just like looking at seven years and it's absolutely it's asinine like it it makes us
00:03:45.780look like a laughing stock and rightfully i think we deserve to be looked at as a laughing stock
00:03:52.760because we just voted them back in so it doesn't sound precautionary yeah i can imagine i i'm
00:03:57.820honestly not surprised whether that's a good or bad thing i'll leave it up to you to you know judge
00:04:02.760But sadly, I'm not surprised, but I definitely do, you know, recommend that a lot of young girls look up to women that stand up for things that they believe in.0.89