I had another post planned, but the Ottawa trucker convoy has pushed a lot of things out of the way for now. I thought I’d write a bit about what this convoy represents to me and a lot of other ordinary Canadians.
Over the last two years, hope and optimism have increasingly been ground into the dirt. We’ve been locked down, masked, tested, forced to get vaccines, and lost our jobs for refusing. Our Charter rights and freedoms, such as the rights to travel freely and assemble, have been stamped out one after another with total disregard for the rule of law. Doctors and scientists who dissent from the prevailing narrative have been censored, silenced, and deprived of their licenses. Hospitals have refused safe, effective, and cheap therapeutics that may have saved the majority of the lives lost to COVID-19.
Everyone is living in fear. Some people, due to government and media propaganda, are living in outsize fear of a not-particularly-dangerous virus. Their estimates of personal risk are wildly inaccurate; they barely leave their house; they wear two masks; they desperately rush to get vaccinated and then boosted. They fear and hate the group they’re told is responsible for all this: those who refuse the “treatment” which is proving not to work.
Lies, lies, and more lies have led them to believe that the “vaccines” are safe and effective and stop transmission and if only 100% of us submit to them, the “pandemic” will be over and the government will give us our freedoms back.
Others of us, quite frankly, are living in fear of our government. We see echoes of previous totalitarian regimes and genocidal crimes against humanity in the deprivation of rights and freedoms, segregation of the population, the demonization of a minority group, the scapegoating of the government’s failures on us for simply exercising our right to bodily autonomy and medical freedom, for thinking critically and daring to investigate for ourselves instead of just swallowing the government’s line.
We watch in horror as the rhetoric and the actions ratchet up step by step, never going backward, ever advancing toward more totalitarianism, more repression, more crushing of freedoms, more violations of human rights. It has seemed unstoppable. Justin Trudeau, the provincial premiers, and the health ministers have cruelly and senselessly advanced outrage after outrage, blatantly illegally, with seemingly no checks and balances, no accountability, no one to stand up and say “enough is enough” - at least, not anyone with power to stop it.
Court actions have been launched, but the courts in Canada are notoriously slow, and the decisions that have been reached haven’t been encouraging. The courts have tended to give the government the benefit of the doubt while ignoring the scientific data that clearly disproves the government’s actions.
It has been utterly depressing, demeaning, and frightening. I personally had grown despairing of any meaningful change, and have been preparing to leave the country. The country I once loved, that I moved to 22 years ago, then immigrated and became a proud citizen of - I no longer recognized that Canada. It was gone.
Or so it seemed. Just when things were at their darkest, hope arose on the horizon. Heroes stepped up. We got word that Canadian truckers, incentivized by the insane vaccine mandate to cross the border, were organizing a convoy to Ottawa to protest. And they weren’t just doing it for themselves, but for all Canadians. They made it clear that their goal wasn’t just the lifting of the mandates for truckers, but all mandates, lockdowns, etc.
The one thing I and so many others have been waiting for finally happened: a mass uprising of Canadians. We despaired as we waited for a critical number to wake up and push back. The truckers have made that happen. Thousands and thousands of Canadians lining highways and overpasses with food and homemade signs and Canadian flags have shown that far from Trudeau’s “fringe minority”, perhaps the majority of Canadians are sick and tired of tyranny and just needed something they could rally around.
This is the Canada I know: diverse, generous, united, humble, good-hearted, freedom-loving. This is the Canada I thought was lost forever.
I don’t know what will happen with the truckers in Ottawa. They’ve said they are determined to stay there as long as it takes. It’s hard to dare to hope, and in my worst moments I fear a bad outcome. But no matter what happens, something big has been unleashed. This convoy has given Canadians permission to speak up and stand up and admit that they aren’t in favour of what has been happening.
Sure, there’s lot of pushback from the legacy media and from the government. Trudeau gave a press conference yesterday where he abhorrently doubled down, smearing the truckers as a small minority, as conspiracy theorists, as racists. But the tide is turning. Other countries are beginning to remove restrictions, and this will put pressure on Canada and other fascist holdouts to do the same.
I don’t think this will be the end of the road for the globalist tyrants. We will need to continue to be alert for the tactics they will use to continue to push their agenda. But it has shown that we the people haven’t totally lost our power. We haven’t become slaves yet.
Two sentiments I have heard repeated over and over again, and which speak for me exactly: for the first time in two years I feel hope again; for the first time in a long time, I feel proud to be Canadian again.
Thank you truckers.
Every time I see footage of the truckers I could cry. It makes my heart burst to see so many people come together because they want something that should be a simple and basic human right: freedom. I have worried about Canada, Austria and some of the most oppressed countries (mine Australia included) and I wondered if there could ever be a big enough pushback to change the course of government. They say there can be no rebels if there is nothing to rebel against. Well our countries have given us a ton of reasons to rebel and I’m glad we are finally doing it. Go Canada #notafringeminority
This expresses exactly what I’ve been feeling. I believe it was/is a pandemic, but I believe most of the policies have been wrongheaded, clumsy, and the “cure” was worse than the disease. I’m grateful that the truckers are inspiring people to contact their elected officials to end the mandates.