The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THOUSANDS OF TRUCKERS CONVOY IN PROTEST

Episode Date: February 5, 2022

The biggest protest in Canadian history, “The Trucker’s Convoy,” is rolling into Ottawa with a simple list of demands. Meanwhile, Canada’s PM Trudeau is reporting to the world it’s a small fringe group. The world is watching as this epic showdown unfolds.#Convoy #NoVaccinePassports #FreedomConvoyCanadaBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Let's look to the north. We have a lot of stuff going on here in America, but in Canada, they have some stuff going on as well. And their Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, appears to be fighting a losing battle against what is shaping up to be one of the largest protests in Canadian history as he tries to convince people that it's a fringe event. Take a look. The small fringe minority.

Wow, this is a huge, look, and they go forever. people who are on their way to Ottawa, who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing. Do not represent the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science and stepping up to protect each other is the best way to continue to ensure our freedoms, our rights, our values. as a country. You guys are honestly true heroes.

What you're doing is just incredible. I think you'd have to be absolutely in a coma to not be aware of what's happening up there in Canada. It's everywhere all over my social media. It's so inspiring to see what's happening, especially after all the reporting we've had over the last two years of just feeling like Canada really just did in some ways, as Trudeau said, just seem to just keep complying as was their nature. But it is obvious now that they've hit the breaking point and Canada has had enough. And you can look at any social media account here and there are people are really telling the story here with the live streams.

It reminds me a lot of what happened with faxed. When that happened a lot, the media is blacking it out for the most part or telling an untrue narrative. And you have people posting or embedded in the convoys going to Ottawa. But let's bring people up to speed here about what exactly was happening. So even at the beginning of this month, there was a rumor that the Canadian government would be implementing vaccine passports for cross-border truckers. Their supply chain had already been hampered by the restrictions and lockdowns, the really strict ones at that over the last couple of years. So loads needed to be delivered.

Truckers were told that, you know, if this thing does come down in the middle of the month in January, that the truckers that were going out because the supply chain is always going, they would be exempt when they come back in. So what that led to, the messaging changed last minute, led to some mass confusion here. And this is what the headlines look like as this thing started to come in, mass confusion amid changing messaging on trucker vaccine mandate. So what happened is the truckers were then told they were forced to quarantine. So they went back kind of on that promise on these truckers. So this is that headline here at the middle of the month. Unvaccinated Canadian truckers will have to quarantine under new mandate fed say.

And here's the headline on January 15th, Canada's. COVID-19 vaccine mandate now in effect for cross-border truck drivers. So this is kind of really where it started. And, you know, here in the U.S., we saw the police, we saw the firefighters, we saw the airline unions. All of these unions at one point or another stuck up for their members when these vaccine mandates came down. They fought for them. They tried to negotiate. Here we have in Canada, the Canadian Trucking Alliance, and they put out a statement regarding these protests. The truckers are doing currently, and it says this, the government of Canada in the United States have now made being vaccinated a requirement to cross the border. This regulation is not changing. So as an industry,

we must adapt to comply with this mandate, said CTA president Stephen Leskowski. The only way to cross the border in a commercial truck or any other vehicle is to get vaccinated. So basically, resistance is futile. You might as well just, you might as well just go along with it and kind of just shut up. And that's not what's happening. And you also have premieres. We have the premier of Alberta. This is Jason Kenny. He took to Twitter to show some pictures. It looks a lot like what's happening in the U.S. here, too. I'm getting pictures, he says, like this, from grocery stores across Alberta this morning. This is turning into a crisis. It requires immediate action by the Canadian and the U.S. government. He goes on to say, I'm on the phone with the U.S. governors this morning

who share my concerns. We're working on a joint letter to the president and the prime minister, urging them to use common sense and the policy that has taken thousands of trucks off the road. You know, in Canada, kind of much like the U.S., the media still is a blockade for some information. So you get the op-eds, the opinion articles where you get some of the real voices that come through, like this one right here. This was Trudeau uses trucker protests as political weapon. So Trudeau is basically saying, be angry at these people, these truckers who are protesting because they're keeping us locked down. They're the ones that are causing the food charges. But as it says in this article, it reads, even before the Trudeau government brought in a mandate on January 15th, that requires truckers crossing the border to be.

vaccinated. Canada was short 23,000 truck drivers. The lack of drivers brought about by tough working conditions and at times, onerous regulations may have existed before the mandate, but this mandate is making things worse. It goes on to say the Canadian Trucking Alliance, those are the people who just read that quote from, has stated that about 85% of its drivers are vaccinated while around 15% of the 120,000 Canadian drivers across the border regularly are not. This means roughly 18,000 drivers can't deliver or pick up loads in the United States, which, means fewer drivers at a time when demands demand is high for shipments. And Dell, we're going to do some basic math here.

One plus one equals two. And here we go. This is the headline just yesterday. Bank of Canada says food price increase to outpace inflation. You don't say. Well, I wonder why that could be. And speaking of the media in Canada, if you're looking to the, you know, what do we want to call it?

Corporate media. This is the headlines you're getting. Hundreds of truckers headed to Ottawa in Freedom Rally. convoy against vaccine mandate hundreds okay well i contacted some of these truckers i contacted some of the point people that um i was told you know there's not really a single head organizer this is kind of a distributed um uh distributed event there's a leaders in every province and and so on and so forth and they weren't no one was really interested in jumping at a media conversation they said look we're kind of were insulating from the media because, you know, they are being attacked, but they did

put out a press release. And I'd like to read that here, some points on that. This was just yesterday night says here, this was on their Facebook account. You can go see this on Truckers Convoy. It says on January 15th, a small team of Alberta Truckers, their family members and friends, came to the decision that the government of Canada has crossed the line with implementing COVID-19 vaccine passport and vaccine mandates. As of today, we have the support of millions of Canadians from across the country. In one week, we have managed. to raise $4.4 million in donations, although our initial convoy estimated to be 1,600 trucks. That number significantly increased to 36,000 trucks in just a few days. It is now estimated that

the number of heavy trucks heading to Ottawa is closer to 50,000. Now, the question remains, what are they going to do when they get there? Well, here's their list of demands in this press release. Number one, the federal and provincial governments terminate the vaccine passports in all other obligatory vaccine contract tracing programs or inter-Canada passport systems. Number two, terminate COVID vaccine mandates and respect the rights of those who wish to remain unvaccinated. Number three, cease the device of rhetoric attacking Canadians who disagree with government mandates and finally cease to limit debate through coercive measures with the goal of censoring those who have varying or incorrect opinions. Sounds a lot like some of the messaging we have here. Now, this weekend,

weather permitting, road closure is permitting, they're expected to kind of converge in Ottawa, that is the capital city of Canada. That's also the office of the Prime Minister Trudeau is also in Ottawa. And there's allegedly a press conference that's going to be held at that point, perhaps a rally there with everybody. But the world's watching to see what happens at this point. Yeah, it's absolutely incredible. You know, when you read like those lists of demands, they're perfect. I mean, they're really perfect. It's exactly what should be. be being requested all the way down to an open discussion on this, which is what, you know, now, and we're talking about truckers. We're talking about guys and women that, you know, are really

entrepreneurs. I think when I look at it, I think one of the beauties of the sort of trucking is a lot of these people, they don't work regularly sort of own their own truck, they're invested in that experience. So, you know, when they're making these decisions, so there's like no head of this thing, well, it really makes sense. These are, you know, independent businesses, individuals, 50,000 of them now lined up on a highway stacked end to end as far as can be seen for mile upon mile upon mile. It's inspiring and it just shows where what this has all come to. And the underpinning of this, Jeffrey, it just can't be lost.

It's certainly not lost on any high wire viewer. But the underpinning that I think is now in the awareness of everyone on this planet is the vaccine doesn't stop infection. It doesn't stop transmission. Those that made it are telling us, yeah, basically you're going to catch Omicron, you're going to have to learn to live with it. So why in God's name are we still forcing this failed product on anybody and then destroying the jobs and the food supply? And for us, our health care workers and the ability for people to take care of us and to fill our shelves with food, it's an outrage. And I think slowly but surely this is what is truly growing our movement.

and we must continue to remember. And I want to really recognize, because we're going to talk in a minute about all of the news that sort of came at me and attacked me over this March. So I know that there are people watching today that may be watching the high wire for the first time.

Maybe you got one of the vaccines and just didn't have a reaction that you liked. Or maybe you got two and thought you'd done your job. But then when they started saying a third was what you needed to get, you said, wait a minute, hold on. That's not what I was promised. Maybe you've gotten a third

and you hear the writing on the wall watching Israel, go towards a fourth. It doesn't matter where you are coming from. Every one of us that is, you know, part of this conversation at one point has had a wake up moment. Many had injuries to their children years ago or from this vaccine right now. What we want you to know is all we care about is the truth. We believe we're all brothers and sisters here in this conversation that the science, just as was stated by the demands of those truckers, must be a debate. We cannot allow it to be seized that cannot be monopolized certainly not by someone like

Tony Fauci who has never treated a single person in his life for any ailment he is not a doctor he is a bureaucrat the doctors should be making these decisions which is why the upcoming discussion around the Senate hearing will be so impactful but for those of you joining us for their first time welcome home and welcome to this conversation