Thank you @BigSuzyB for clarifying that.
You've saved stumbler and anon and thinskin a lot of time searching for evidence that just doesn't exist to prove their case.
Now we can move along.

 

Freedom Convoy shuts down busy border crossing




Truckers are pictured in Canada’s capital protesting COVID-related mandates and restrictions. (AP Photo)

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UPDATED 11:26 AM PT – Tuesday, February 8, 2022
The Freedom Convoy of truckers shuts down one of North America’s busiest international border crossings. Traffic headed into the U.S. on the ambassador bridge was reopened Tuesday while traffic into Canada remained halted.

On Monday, Canadian truckers shut down the bridge, which spans across the Detroit River from Michigan into Windsor. For a time, traffic going both directions was blocked from crossing, in turn, causing a massive traffic jam in Detroit.

While the bridge remains partially closed, authorities are suggesting truckers take the Windsor-Detroit tunnel. Meanwhile, business leaders say the delays could worsen the supply chain crisis for both countries.

One America’s Tom McGrath has more on attempts by Canadian authorities to dismantle the mostly peaceful protests against COVID-related mandates.

 

Alberta, Saskatchewan move to end COVID-19 restrictions
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...t-moe-brings-provinces-vaccine-passport-mask/

Alberta and Saskatchewan on Tuesday announced plans to end their vaccination passport systems and mask mandates, making them the first provinces to reveal when they would scrap those two coronavirus public-health measures that are spurring protests across the country.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said his province would eliminate its passport program at midnight on Tuesday, while Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said his province’s system would be gone on Feb. 14.

Mr. Moe said Saskatchewan’s indoor masking requirement will be dropped at the end of the month, while Mr. Kenney said he will end the mask mandate for children next Monday. Both premiers said the usefulness of their vaccine passport systems has ended and it is time to heal divisions in society over COVID-19 restrictions.

Quebec and Prince Edward Island also announced plans to ease public-health restrictions, although their timelines are not as aggressive as those of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Protests against COVID-19 rules escalated over the weekend, including the on-again-off-again highway blockade near the U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta. Mr. Kenney said his policy shift on vaccination passports was unrelated to this pressure, even though the number of COVID-19 patients in the province’s hospitals holds steady.

“The program is no longer serving a useful and compelling purpose,” Mr. Kenney said on Tuesday. “I could not stand in front of Albertans tonight and justify a continuation of a program that has done its job.”

 

The US government stopped unvaccinated truckers from crossing the border. The protesters were in Ottawa just around the corner from the US embassy, you can’t miss it, just look for the ugliest building in town. Talk about barking up the wrong tree.

 

Yeah, this Administration is some kind of fucked up, by creating a shortage of goods and supplies yet not stopping a shortage of criminals to kill U.S. Citizens, intentionally or by spreading CoVid....yeppers 80 million voted for this huh?

 

US trucker convoy coming: Joe Biden will ignore protests at his peril | TheHill

"Biden pretends to be the champion of the “little guy”; he claims to support blue-collar workers. Truckers are exactly the kind of folks Biden is meant to embrace, but he will not do that.

The drivers protesting the vaccine mandates have already been portrayed by the liberal media as right-wing zealots and science deniers, which is only one notch above climate deniers. A Facebook group organizing the U.S. convoy that had amassed 130,000 members has been tossed off the social media platform amid allegations that the movement was being promoted by right-wing extremists, which the organizers deny."​

Well, this is embarrassing, isn't it? The Canadian trucker protest was declared a fringe group of crazies who don't represent mainstream Canadians, and before we knew it, things got out of hand. Now we see protest convoys forming in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Pay attention folks, this show is coming to a street near you.

From Canadian truckers to European protests, the world is fed up with COVID crackdowns (yahoo.com)
Canadian-style trucker protests spread throughout the world | Fox News
‘World Freedom Convoy’ eyes Brussels as destination for massive trucker protest (brusselstimes.com)

 

In true terrorist form the "protesters" are now using their children for human shields. Which is why I had to delete the photo.

BUSTED: American conservatives caught spreading lies about Canada’s trucker convoy

Bob Brigham
February 09, 2022




Conservatives in America are spreading four major lies as they hype the protests by some truck drivers in Canada who are protesting coronavirus vaccines, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale reported Wednesday.

"Canadian protests against vaccine mandates, Covid-19 restrictions and the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have captured attention in the US and abroad -- and prompted a flurry of misinformation, including a false claim that was promoted by prominent podcaster Joe Rogan and on Fox," Dale reported. "First, here's some quick background:The protests involve a minority of Canada's truck drivers, some far-right activists and a variety of other citizens. The demonstrations began in late January as a 'Freedom Convoy' of trucks and other vehicles. The convoy then turned into an ongoing demonstration in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, whose mayor declared a state of emergency on Sunday."

CNN explained that only a small percentage of truck drivers are participating in the protest.'"

"The convoy started after Canada began requiring truckers who cross the US border to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or have two-week quarantines upon returning home. The Canadian Trucking Alliance, the primary advocacy group for Canadian truckers, has opposed the protests and has said that more than 85% of Canadian truckers who regularly cross the border were fully vaccinated as of late January," CNN reported.

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Dale noted the false reports of the number of trucks involved.

"The number of trucks involved in the protest was never anywhere close to 50,000; such a number of trucks would have taken up hundreds of miles more road space than this protest occupied. Canadian journalists put the number of trucks in the hundreds in late January," CNN reported. "Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly told reporters on January 31 that it was impossible to provide exact crowd-size figures but that he had 'heard' numbers as high as 18,000 total demonstrators -- not just truckers -- present in the city at the peak of the protest on January 29. No credible source has reported that the number of participating trucks in particular ever approached tens of thousands, let alone '50,000.'"

Dale noted backers of the protest have falsely captioned photos and videos.

CNN reported, "One video that has been shared on various social media platforms was captioned to claim that it showed South Carolina truckers heading to Ottawa to join the convoy -- but it actually showed an August 2021 truck parade in support of the Special Olympics, USA Today reported. A video of honking Brazilian truckers that circulated on Facebook was from a May 2021 demonstration in support of President Jair Bolsonaro, not a demonstration in solidarity with the Canadian truckers as some captions claimed, USA Today also reported. A photo of a massive protest crowd, shared in Twitter posts in both English and Spanish as if it were from Ottawa this year, actually depicted a 1991 demonstration in Moscow against the Communist government of the Soviet Union, Reuters reported. And another photo, which has been described in Facebook posts as a group of Amish people driving to support the convoy, is a shot of Old Order Mennonites simply going to church, PolitiFact reported."

Dale noted some supporters will also pushing the false claim that 50% of the Ottawa police force tendered their resignations.

"These claims were entirely false. Ottawa police spokesperson Constable Amy Gagnon said in Monday emails to CNN that 'there have been no resignations in relation to the Demonstration' and 'all available officers are working.' And the Canadian Armed Forces have not made any vow of "allegiance" in relation to the protests nor issued any dramatic statements of any kind about this issue. 'In short, no, we have not made any such comment,' a military spokesperson said in a Monday email to CNN," the network reported.

And there have also been false reports that the government had instructed Ottawa hotels to not rent rooms to protesters.

"The employees who took CNN's calls at the downtown Marriott and five other Ottawa hotels on Monday said their establishments had not been given any anti-protester instruction by any government; Patrick Champagne, press secretary to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, told CNN that the claim 'is categorically false'; Alexander Cohen, spokesperson for Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, called the claim 'ludicrous' and said that 'no one from the federal government has done that'; Steve Bell, president of the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association, said that 'to my knowledge there is no truth to this rumour.' As for the Marriott in particular, it had rooms available at the time of Subramanya's tweet on Sunday evening and again on Monday evening," CNN reported.

Read the full fact-check.


https://www.rawstory.com/busted-ame...-spreading-lies-about-canadas-trucker-convoy/

 

Let them truckers rolled 10/4

 

That den of ultra left wing pinko thinkers known as the Canadian Trucking Alliance say that 90% of truckers are vaccinated.
They say vaccine mandates have not hurt them all. Commies could be lying though.

 

If I was the Canadian Government the first thing I would do is give the "protesters" 24 hours notice and then call in reinforcements to start enforcing every local province and national traffic laws and trucking regulations and start impounding trucks. Most these "protesters" appear to be independent owners and saying bye bye to their $100,000+ investment might change their minds and behaviors. As well as fines and impound fees to get their trucks back. They sure don't have to worry about trucker vaccine mandates if they don't have a truck.

Or the government could get really creative and take a page from US treasonous conservative/Republican red states and pass a law making it legal to crash into a truck protest blocking the highway and sue the trucker for the damages. People wouldn't even have to do it. Insurance companies would drop them for that and you can't drive a truck without insurance.

And in the meantime the rhetoric does not abate.

Steve Schmidt Blames Republican Party for ‘Insurrection Underway’ In Ottawa
By Kipp JonesFeb 8th, 2022, 11:06 pm
521 comments
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt blamed the Republican Party on Tuesday for a massive protest that has left Canada’s capital city snarled by traffic.

Schmidt equated the presence of truck drivers who are protesting Covid-related mandates in Canada to insurrectionists, and he blamed their actions on the GOP.

Truckers and those who have sided with them – and against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – have been blocking roads in Ottawa since last month.

The situation has been rowdy, and a judge issued an injunction on Monday ordering protestors not to honk their horns.

Police have even gone as far as to take away their gasoline.


Ottawa Police
@OttawaPolice
IMPORTANT: Anyone attempting to bring material supports (gas, etc.) to the demonstrators could be subject to arrest. Enforcement is underway. #ottawa #ottnews


But minus a few reported incidents of ugly flags being flown, the situation has been peaceful.

According to Schmidt, the actions of those who are attempting to get the attention of Trudeau are tantamount to “insurrection,” and the Republican Party is ultimately to blame.

The Lincoln Project cofounder joined MSNBC’s The Last Word with host Lawrence O’Donnell to make his case.

Schmidt began a long screed against the GOP by comparing and contrasting the how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) are each talking about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

After O’Donnell called the Republican Party a “cult,” Schmidt unleashed. He alluded to the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol, where rioters attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election:

There are parts of this, certainly, when you look at the insurrection, Lawrence, and I think there is more than ample evidence to say right now that there was a conspiracy amongst many parties, headed by the president of the United States, to try to obstruct, destroy, obliterate the peaceful transition of power in the country. We know that this autocratic movement is a cult of personality. We know that it is fueled by grievance and conspiracy theories. It is all part of this toxic stew.

Schmidt concluded, “It’s metastasized north of the border, and you have an insurrection underway in the capital of a very important country, our neighbor to the north, Canada.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/steve-s...an-party-for-insurrection-underway-in-ottawa/

 

The loudmouths are losing. When this is all over, remember the helpers
OPINION: The real mass movement in Canada right now isn’t the convoy camped out in Ottawa. It’s the millions of people who are actually trying to end this pandemic
By John Michael McGrath - Published on Feb 01, 2022
A man waves flags in front of trucks parked in front of Parliament Hill as a part of a rally against COVID-19 restrictions, January 31, 2022. (Patrick Doyle/CP10
The so-called truckers’ convoy in Ottawa this past weekend — not made up of many actual truckers, as far as anyone can see, and acting in direct opposition to the recommendations of the actual national association of truck drivers — has been loud, disruptive, and alarming for Ottawa residents. As someone born in the nation’s capital, and as a former student of Carleton University (go Ravens!), I am horrified to see streets I know well taken over by swastikas and Confederate flags.

(Oh, those are just bad apples, you say? So then let’s focus on the explicit public claim of the protest’s organizers: they want to dissolve Canada’s constitutional government and overturn federal and provincial laws through the use of an unelected junta made up of senators and the Governor General. Taken literally, this is sedition. Treated as it deserves to be, it’s merely nuts.)

If this upsets you, especially if you live in the capital, that’s okay: it’s upsetting. But in the same way that I have to tell myself not to obsess about the one guy on the subway who’s not wearing a mask (instead of focusing on the scores of people I see every day who are), we do ourselves a disservice if we let the loud minority drown out the vast majority of people who are doing the difficult work every day of getting us to the finish line in this pandemic.

Ottawa police estimate that the crowds on Parliament Hill fell somewhere between 5,000 and 18,000; you could double the higher estimate, and that would still be a fraction of the number of people who received vaccine doses on Saturday and Sunday in Ontario alone; nearly 160,000 people received vaccines over the weekend. Most of those are third doses at this point, but plenty of young children are still showing up to get their first and second doses as well. And those many thousands join millions more — more Ontarians have now had three shots than only two or one, and while the sad, deluded spectacle in Ottawa is already making a high-speed transition from tragedy to farce as numbers dwindle, the ranks of the vaccinated grow every day.

Every single needle in every single arm is both an incremental step toward normalcy and an act of solidarity with our fellow citizens and with health-care workers whose plea through all of this has been for us to do what we can not to end up in an ICU. Some people have done everything right and still gotten severely ill; others have done nothing to save themselves and have, predictably, ended up right where the actuaries would’ve predicted. Our doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists have cared for them all, enduring punishing workloads and harassment campaigns, and, in a real sense, we will likely never be able to repay this debt (although I’d like to see some proposals in the coming election for how we can try).

Vaccinations are just the most easily counted example of the actual mass movement going on in Canada right now: people trying their hardest to end this pandemic with the light of reason instead of bitter, nasty authoritarian cosplay. And, as with any movement, the broad sweep of the narrative conceals uncountable smaller stories, little acts of generosity and grace that many of us will never know.

I think about the school principal who stayed late on a Friday to ensure that the clinic where my daughter got her second dose ran smoothly. She acknowledged that there was little for her to actually do, but she wanted to be there in case a door needed to be unlocked or something went wrong. It went later into the evening than planned, and the Omicron wave was still rising; she had every reason to go home, and she didn’t, because this is how she could help, so she did.

That act of kindness is just one of many like it across Ontario and Canada. They make up the actual hard work of liberation, of freeing ourselves from this pandemic. Solidarity is not slavery, and this is what an actual politics of freedom looks like. The whining about public-health measures is ridiculous and based on precisely zero facts: from conservatives like Doug Ford to social democrats like British Columbia’s John Horgan, the leaders of provincial governments in Canada are already or will soon be relaxing public-health measures. Indeed, on Monday, Ontario’s rules were relaxed for the first time since Christmas, and I’d bet good money this is the last “reopening” Ontario goes through due to COVID-19 and its variants.

When this is all over, the people who have done their best to make this pandemic worse will still be among us, and they’ll undoubtedly find ways to make their voices heard as they move on to the next conspiracy theory. (Are billionaire lizard people debasing the blockchain from a secret base on the moon? I’m sure someone will tell me.) We probably won’t have the luxury of ignoring them. But we can at least remember that, through all this, their efforts have been overwhelmed by people of every kind and in every walk of life who did what they could, because we asked them to (and even when we didn’t).

And when this is all over, the final victory will belong to them and to us — and not to the set of loudmouths angrily insisting that they’re important and relevant as the world moves on without them.

 

Canadian truckers inspire anti-vaccine mandate protests in France
Protesters say they plan to go to Paris and Brussels


Inspired by the Freedom Convoy of Canadian truckers protesting their government's vaccine mandate, a group of protesters gathered together in France Wednesday for a "Convoi de la Liberté" of their own.

On Wednesday morning, some 200 protesters assembled in a parking lot in Nice, located in southern France along the Mediterranean coast. People in the group told Reuters they planned to march to Paris and Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, to demand an end to COVID-19 restrictions.



A French activist holds a poster reading "Resistance" before the start of their "Convoi de la liberte" (The Freedom Convoy), a vehicular convoy protest converging on Paris to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine and restrictions in Nice, France, February 9, 2022. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

"Lots of people don’t understand why a vaccine pass is in force in France," one of the participants reportedly said. "Our work is to communicate to Europe that putting in place a health pass until 2023 is something the majority of our fellow citizens cannot understand."

In Perpignan, near the country’s border with Spain, another "freedom convoy" of about 200 people also gathered to set off for Paris.


"We are just tired of it all. We want to go where we want without being asked for a vaccine pass," Nicolas Bourrat, an independent truck driver, told Reuters. "At least with this action, I am doing something."


A French activist holds a Canadian flag before the start of their "Convoi de la liberte" (The Freedom Convoy), a vehicular convoy protest converging on Paris to protest coronavirus vaccine and restrictions in Nice, France, February 9, 2022. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard REFILE)

Last month, France imposed strict vaccine mandates that effectively banned the unvaccinated from all restaurants, sports arenas, and other venues as COVID cases driven by the highly contagious omicron surged across the country.
A Facebook page associated with the French protesters, "Le convoi de la liberté," has amassed more than 300,000 members since it was created late last month.

Photos of the French convoy show people waving French and Canadian flags in an evident tribute to the Canadian truckers who have fueled the movement.



A woman and her dog stand by a Canadian flag before the start of their "Convoi de la liberte" (The Freedom Convoy), a vehicular convoy protest converging on Paris to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine and restrictions in Nice, France, February 9, 2022. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

The protests in Canada, labeled the "Freedom Convoy," first began in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Jan. 23 in protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s coronavirus policies. Hundreds of big rig trucks later descended on Ottawa, bringing the area around Parliament Hill to a standstill.

The protests have since spread to other locations on or near the Canadian border, including the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, where a protest caused long backups and at one point stopped traffic in both directions.

 

*looks at pictures.
Nope. Not a single confederate flag. Or Trump banner. Or swastika.
Imagine that.

Shooter googled "Canadian trucker protest" and looked at images.
Not one single Confederate flag. Not one Trump banner. One Nazi flag. One.

Canadians do not need American help to protest to their government, any more than we need Canadians protesting in our cities.

 

no robing looting or fires, amazing how peaceful truckers are, lol

 

Seems the Canadian truckers have this. Reminds me of the body parts arguing over who's the boss...

 

Marlene Dietrich

 

According to the Canadians, 90% of its populace including its truckers got the jab! What medical company's are being promised taxpayer money to in order to get the other 10 % who don't want or need it? They don't want it, let them get it and die, whether they have it or not doesn't stop anyone from transmitting it. If you got the jab, you have nothing to worry about from those who don't want it!

Lift the Ridiculous Mandates and move on. We did so in Florida and we are doing fine!

 

WATCH: Kayleigh McEnany visibly stunned as Ari Fleischer stomps on Canada's anti-vax 'Freedom Convoy'

David Edwards
February 09, 2022



Fox News/screen grab
Fox News conservative contributor Ari Fleischer left network hosts without a response on Wednesday after he revealed his opposition to a Canadian "Freedom Convoy" protest that was purportedly started by truckers who oppose vaccine mandates.

Throughout the week, Fox News has provided favorable coverage of the protest despite polls that show most Ottawa residents want the demonstrators to go home.

"The facts are important," Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany told Fleischer. "These guys were essential workers, they couldn't have a supply shortage, they're driving their trucks across the border then all the sudden on Jan. 15 there's this new Orwellian restriction put in place and they're looking around, saying, did the science change? Why Jan. 15 do we suddenly -- we're no longer essential?"

Fleischer expressed sympathy for the truckers but said that he disagreed with their tactics.

"I have a different take on this," he revealed. "I've been caught in enough New York City traffic snarls where I couldn't move for two hours because Occupy Wall Street took over all the streets in New York City -- many of the streets in New York City in certain areas."

"You don't have the right no matter how good your cause is to do that to your fellow citizens," the pundit continued. "I do not support blocking traffic, interfering with the mobility of other people, which includes their getting health care, their carrying out the things they need in life to be on time for."

He added: "And so I oppose it whether it's Occupy Wall Street or a group I'm sympathetic toward. Good goals but bad tactics. I think you alienate more people by doing this."

Fleischer admitted that the protest is "kind of fun to watch on TV."

"But these tactics backfire and I don't like them being done by anybody," he remarked. "Stay off the streets. Don't shut down the rights of other people to go where they need to go."

McEnany had no response for Fleischer. Instead, she moved on to a question attacking Ottawa police for tactics used against right-wing protesters.

Watch the video below from Fox News.

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-freedom-convoy/

 

This had one simple solution ! Lift the mandates ! Intransigent Govt. Drunk on power, probably having promised some medical companies 100% Vaxx in order to provide profits! Refuses to back down to the 10% who never complies anyway! Trudy is a douche!
If the Canadian Govt has any brains, it will only have to meet one demand! Lift the Mandates, everyone goes home, business back to usual !!!!