I was talking to a (very) recently retired trucker who plans to join the protest parade to Ottawa. He's taking his grandchildren.
That protest hasn’t got much attention in the national propaganda organ yet, and what we’ve seen has been desultory and dismissive.
But it seems to be a happening thing.
The guy had been crossing the border several times a week throughout the pandemic. At this stage of the game, claiming he shouldn’t do that anymore unless he gets the “safe and effective” vaccine seems silly. Are we still flattening the curve, two years on?
He also says it’s about a lot more than vaccine mandates. People, at least actual people who do real work that can’t be done at home, are tired of being talked down to. They’ve been going backwards economically all their lives. Their kids are priced out of higher education and priced out of the housing market. Their dreams are massively circumscribed compared to past generations of working class people.
The CBC will do everything they can to portray them as anti-science morons, and most probably domestic terrorists to boot. There’s a lot of Asians drive truck, and hopefully they’re well represented among the protesters. After all, the Sikh-led farmer protests in India managed to force Modi to a climb-down, and he’s way tougher than Trudeau.
Alas, Jagmeet, leader of our putative “workers party,” has already denounced the protest.
A few thousand tractor-trailers parked in downtown Ottawa and Toronto for a week should get Justin’s attention.
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