On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 12:07:42 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
> On 2022-02-21 10:31 a.m., Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > I was talking with my friend Ellen last night and Canada came up,
> problems with Canadian truckers or something...
>
> I have no idea what's coming through the news about the truckers in your
> neck of the woods; but I've been following the story for a month, and
> here's a nutshell view as I've read it:
>
> As in the U.S., the vaccines didn't end the pandemic, but led to new
> variants, culminating with omicron and a huge rise in cases from
> Christmas on. What the vaccines did do well was to lower deaths and
> hospitalizations; that, and the mildness of the variant, has led one US
> state and European country after another to give up vaccine passes and
> other mandates. Not in Canada, though, where the Trudeau gov't doubled
> down on them.
>
> On Jan. 15, Trudeau announced a vaccine mamdate for truckers hauling
> goods into Canada from the U.S. (Canada also lobbied the U.S. to bring
> in one, which Biden did a week later.) It didn't make much sense;
> truckers have one of the most solitary jobs around, and they worked
> unvaccinated for the first year without problems. It was also harmful:
> while 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated, stopping the other 10%
> from trans-border work meant more work for the rest in an already
> short-staffed industry (just like with the nurses). But Trudeau, who
> seems to still believe vaccination can stop the virus and end the
> pandemic, went ahead.
>
> So some truckers organized a protest convoy to Ottawa, Freedom Convoy
> 2022, to protest the mandate. The convoy itself was popular beyond their
> dreams: Canadians turned out in town after town to welcome them and
> cheer them on; Canadians, and some Americans, raised $9 million for them
> on GoFundMe (and when the government got GFM to freeze those funds,
> raised another $9 million on GiveSendGo). You can read all that on my
> politics blog in Jan: http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.com/2022/01/
> but if you just want to see the highlights, check out the last two
> videos I've added to the "Trucking" Dancehall.
>
> The drive into Ottawa was the high point; then it went downhill. Trudeau
> refused to meet with them, calling them a "fringe minority," and left
> town saying he was isolating because his son had Covid. (Trudeau was
> exposed last year, when his wife had Covid, and he's been
> triple-vaxxed). The media went looking for kooks, and found a few: this
> is a real people's movement, not astroturfed, so you'd expect a few nuts
> in the mix; one guy who believed in white replacement, for instance.
> There was also a Nazi flag guy and a Confederate flag guy, who walked
> around Ottawa and got their pictures into most of the msm. Anyway, you
> can read the details in the February blog. The bottom line is that after
> 2 weeks of this Trudeau brought in the Emergencies Act, and used it to
> (a) freeze the truckers' GiveSendGo funds, and even start freezing their
> personal bank accounts (b) bring in police from Ontario and Quebec,
> until the truckers were outnumbered, and then move and arrest them,
> which they did last weekend. That's where the story stands now.
>
> More to follow, if there's interest.

Of great interest.....

On 2022-02-25 5:37 p.m., General Zod wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 12:07:42 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
>> On 2022-02-21 10:31 a.m., Will Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> I was talking with my friend Ellen last night and Canada came up,
>> problems with Canadian truckers or something...
>>
>> I have no idea what's coming through the news about the truckers in your
>> neck of the woods; but I've been following the story for a month, and
>> here's a nutshell view as I've read it:
>>
>> As in the U.S., the vaccines didn't end the pandemic, but led to new
>> variants, culminating with omicron and a huge rise in cases from
>> Christmas on. What the vaccines did do well was to lower deaths and
>> hospitalizations; that, and the mildness of the variant, has led one US
>> state and European country after another to give up vaccine passes and
>> other mandates. Not in Canada, though, where the Trudeau gov't doubled
>> down on them.
>>
>> On Jan. 15, Trudeau announced a vaccine mamdate for truckers hauling
>> goods into Canada from the U.S. (Canada also lobbied the U.S. to bring
>> in one, which Biden did a week later.) It didn't make much sense;
>> truckers have one of the most solitary jobs around, and they worked
>> unvaccinated for the first year without problems. It was also harmful:
>> while 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated, stopping the other 10%
>> from trans-border work meant more work for the rest in an already
>> short-staffed industry (just like with the nurses). But Trudeau, who
>> seems to still believe vaccination can stop the virus and end the
>> pandemic, went ahead.
>>
>> So some truckers organized a protest convoy to Ottawa, Freedom Convoy
>> 2022, to protest the mandate. The convoy itself was popular beyond their
>> dreams: Canadians turned out in town after town to welcome them and
>> cheer them on; Canadians, and some Americans, raised $9 million for them
>> on GoFundMe (and when the government got GFM to freeze those funds,
>> raised another $9 million on GiveSendGo). You can read all that on my
>> politics blog in Jan: http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.com/2022/01/
>> but if you just want to see the highlights, check out the last two
>> videos I've added to the "Trucking" Dancehall.
>>
>> The drive into Ottawa was the high point; then it went downhill. Trudeau
>> refused to meet with them, calling them a "fringe minority," and left
>> town saying he was isolating because his son had Covid. (Trudeau was
>> exposed last year, when his wife had Covid, and he's been
>> triple-vaxxed). The media went looking for kooks, and found a few: this
>> is a real people's movement, not astroturfed, so you'd expect a few nuts
>> in the mix; one guy who believed in white replacement, for instance.
>> There was also a Nazi flag guy and a Confederate flag guy, who walked
>> around Ottawa and got their pictures into most of the msm. Anyway, you
>> can read the details in the February blog. The bottom line is that after
>> 2 weeks of this Trudeau brought in the Emergencies Act, and used it to
>> (a) freeze the truckers' GiveSendGo funds, and even start freezing their
>> personal bank accounts (b) bring in police from Ontario and Quebec,
>> until the truckers were outnumbered, and then move and arrest them,
>> which they did last weekend. That's where the story stands now.
>>
>> More to follow, if there's interest.
>
> Of great interest.....

It'll be of even more interest to Americans, now that a similar
"People's Convoy" has set off from California for Washington. (I think
they've reached Texas already.)

I probably should put the truckin' videos on here, to keep the thread
active over the next few days. Let's start with the one that got taken
down on YouTube; fortunately the creator also put it on an uncensored
platform, Bitchute:

Keep on Truckin' in the Free World (Neil Young parody)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/g2L6eAwhzOjx/