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It’s Only a Matter of Time

It’s only a matter of time before something bad happens with the Freedom Truckers in Ottawa. The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is in hiding at some unknown location and continues to call the truckers various names, racists, Nazis, etc. If name-calling is a new twist in the art of negotiation, I must have missed that update.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford did find time during this emergency to go snowmobiling at his cottage four hours north, so at least we know that he is not in hiding. However, it is disturbing that he must have taken the same negotiation seminar that Trudeau has taken, as just said that truckers could lose their licenses if they don’t comply with orders being enacted under a newly-announced state of emergency aimed at breaking up the demonstrations. (Again I must have missed the negotiation update on how using threats is a good strategy when attempting to resolve issues.)

Trudeau insults the truckers while Ford threatens them … “good strategy” … a “my way or the highway” strategy. [pun intended!] And BTW, both Trudeau and Ford refuse to meet with representatives of the truckers.

Rupa Subramanya is a local Ottawa journalist who has taken the time to try to understand who these truckers are and what they want. She first interviewed two local downtown residents, Alycia (white female) and Sloungui (black male), who live in centertown. “Both Alycia and Sloungui were curious about the protests went to check them out and found only love and kindness. Songui brought his mother to the protests. She had only seen the mainstream coverage and she changed her mind.”

Subramanya also interviewed one hundred of the protestors. What she discovered was that most of them were protesting for the return of their personal freedoms. This sentiment was especially apparent in those immigrants from authoritarian countries where personal freedoms were a cherished commodity.

“Long story short, the media have spent a lot of time and energy being scared and outraged over the protests, but they’ve spent very little actually trying to understand how the protesters feel and what they’re trying to accomplish. The protesters aren’t rioting. They aren’t looting. They aren’t setting things on fire. They aren’t beating people in the streets. They just want their lives back.”

Oh yeah, and BTW 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated.

Now back to my initial sentence … “It’s only a matter of time before something bad happens with the Freedom Truckers in Ottawa” At some point the non-negotiators, Ford and Trudeau, will opt to bring in the police, and then perhaps, the military, to “restore order,” … and then bad things will happen.

From an inside source … do not believe all that you read about the truckers in the newspapers, as there is a lot of fake news being printed in, and being disseminated by the liberal Canadian media.

2/12/22

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