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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let us not get the thread removed. I think it is possible for both right and left-leaning politicians to try and impose limits on the personal freedoms of citizens. One is not exclusive of another.
However, the WaPo article about this is simply very telling. It is not at all what this is about. Fascist? There are some Trumpers in the convoy, but most are regular people that lost their jobs, can't work in person or go to the movies or have their kids play hockey while watching their own Maples Leaves play without masks in huge indoor arenas in the U.S.[/quote]

Lost their jobs?  By refusing to get a vaccine that will not harm them and will save many of their lives.  Most truckers ARE in the higher risk comorbidity and age categories.  Sorry but that's an absolute fact.  Majority of truckers are over 50, overweight, hypertensive, etc.  And I'd say a LARGE percentage of the protesting truckers have a Trumpy worldview, not a "minority."

Lost their jobs yet can afford to frivolously run their 5 mpg Peterbilt trucks all around the country in convoys?

And oh, next time you want to post about infllated cost of groceries or that your supermarket ran out of some item...  it's most likely because one of the guys who was supposed to deliver is either sick with covid or gallivanting around in the name of freedumb rather than keeping the country working.[/quote]

I don't think you understood what I was saying. Many have lost their jobs in Canada because of lockdowns. Not truckers. Regular, non-trucker Canadians. Many work in the hospitality sector. A friend of mine that ran a cafeteria in the huge office was packing her mayo, plates, etc last week, BCS this is yet another lockdown that has forced her to stop working. Nobody is in the building and she has nobody to even buy take out. She was crying as she has kids and saying she must use these last supplies to feed her kids.
She said, she can't survive this lockdown.
In the summer Canadian gov has decided to stop the covid payments to people that are forced to stay at home, as the place was opening. However, I read that one woman is back to work at the movie theater, but only 10 hours per week, as opposed to over 40 hours she used to work. She can't live off of 10 hours per week, no?
The crowds are coming from all sides, in minivans, small cars, it might have started with the truckers, but now farmers are joining. [/quote]

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