Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says that he has reached an agreement with the leadership of the “Freedom Convoy” to remove trucks from residential neighborhoods this week.
“We have made a plan to consolidate our protest efforts around Parliament Hill,” “Freedom Convoy” president Tamara Lich said in a letter to Watson, adding that the “Freedom Convoy” board agrees with the request to alleviate pressure on residential areas and that organizers are currently working to get the truckers to “buy-in.”
“The Freedom Convoy Board agree with your request to reduce pressure on the residents and businesses in the City of Ottawa,” Lich wrote. “We have made a plan to consolidate our protest efforts around Parliament Hill. We will be working hard over the next 24 hours to get buy in from the truckers. We hope to start repositioning our trucks on Monday.”
That’s a good move. Polling shows the truckers are losing support over the interference with business and residents going about their lives. It’s hurting Trudeau even more.
Watson had written to Lich saying that residents are “exhausted and on edge” and that the blockades are “teetering on the brink of permanent closure” for some businesses.
“I don’t believe these harmful effects on our community and its residents were the intended consequences of your protest,” Watson wrote.
Watson said that he wants to see “clear evidence” that trucks are being moved from residential streets by Monday. If they do, he will meet with the convoy organizers.
They have to remove the trucks from residential areas, not backfill residential areas already occupied, and not go to other residential areas.
It’s unclear where they can go or if they will but that’s the deal.
There are somewhere between 8,000 and 36,000 trucks in Ottawa depending on who you believe.
Today was the 17th day of the protest.
Taking all their stuff is kinda the point though.
The only way this ends if violence. You have to put down tyrants like you would a rabid dog. They’re the same.
So now all of a sudden, Canadian politicians care about people and small businesses? Huh, who’d of thunk it?
Hacked
When push comes to shove, Canadians prefer slavery as long as they can ‘keep their stuff’. …. A good lesson on how to control slaves.
I think it is valid that they did not go to Ottawa to destroy the lives and livelihoods of fellow Canadians. They came to force the government to remove the mandates. There are protests nationwide and worldwide. This will naturally expand and grow.
In Ottawa, it’s 90% a battle of optics. Tormenting a residential area is terrible optics and just cruel.
I say this as a fervent supporter of the protests.
Now, if the trucks end up leaving the city, that would likely turn this into a net loss. If they remove barricades around the Hill and allow the trucks to relocate, as is suggested, then this will be a PR win for both the mayor and the convoy.
The GiveSendGo page for Freedom Convoy is back up, at 9.3+ million.
There was a story my Dad told me when he drove truck at one time. The steering wheel was secured at all and he was stopped by a patrol officer. So he took the steering wheel off before he came to the door. When the officer saw there was no wheel he asked how in hell he was driving it. So my Dad picks up a crescent wrench and showed it to the officer and attached it to the steering column. The officer wasn’t too happy about it.
That hacked page had a link with a CSV file. I hope no one accessed the file. Microsoft allows embedded executable code in their software. Ordinarily there isn’t a problem but that is Why a person should never access internet files. There’s NO reason Microsoft still allows executable code.
I thought the negotiations would be about dropping the mask mandates, not moving the site the protest! The mandate was the reason for the protest, wasn’t it? Sorry, truckers, but you just got played . . .
The Freedom Convoy page doesn’t work. The Adopt A Trucker page opens up.
It’s Certainly NOT the protestors who are violent. I would have beat him to a bloody pulp.
https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1493053006237122562
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is doing what should have been done earlier, acknowledging the Truckers and negotiating. He is doing what the police Chief, City Council and Justin Trudeau will not! The cry for Freedom is not going away – Trudeau is the target because it is he who closed the International Border and mandated the vaccine – it is he who can undo it just as easy. Trudeau is unfit to be Canada’s PM – he is divisive, unable to work with his citizens and an arrogant narcissist who is going to go down in flames before he backs down.
Searching GiveSendGo gets you this.
GiveSendGo IS NOW FROZEN!
https://givesendgone.wtf/
I get these:
https://givesendgo.com/campaigns
The Freedom Convoy page doesn’t work. The Adopt A Trucker page opens up.
https://givesendgo.com/Warroomcanadanet
https://givesendgo.com/site/search?text=Adopt%20A%20Trucker
Just went to check the GiveSendGo page and it’s GONE.
One of the main streams just went down for “policy violations”. It doesn’t say any copyright infringements.
Now we hear the RCMP is trying to kill Grandma.
https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1493039307753406467
Democrats and socilist don’t resign, they are usually shot or hanged.
It’s different with our kind of system but with their systems it used to be when there was such public discontent the leader would resign rather than continue in a dictatorial fashion. Since so much time has passed it seems to be the, “in-thing”, for leaders to become neo-Hitlers.
There was a rumor of a huge contingent of officers coming to Ottawa, somewhat like what occurred in Windsor, later this evening. Maybe that is on hold for now.
A poll I had seen showed the approval going from 32% to the low 40’s. So, essentially it would be an increase in support, albeit still overall negative in the aggregate.
There are certainly a lot of empty streets around Parliament Hill. Maybe the police shouldn’t have blockaded so many streets.
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