Canadian Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy Heads For Ottawa

The CBC reports:

Hundreds of truckers set off from British Columbia to Ottawa on Sunday to protest a federal vaccine mandate despite the urging of the country’s largest trucking federation to comply.

The protest has been dubbed the “Freedom Rally” against the federal mandate for cross-border truckers, which went into effect on Jan. 15. Canadian truck drivers now need to be fully vaccinated if they want to avoid a two-week quarantine and pre-arrival molecular test for COVID-19 before crossing into Canada.

It sparked a movement online to protest the mandate, with a GoFundMe raising money for the trucking rally raising over $2.5 million as of Sunday.

Blog Toronto reports:



A video that emerged Monday morning includes a blunt admission from an Ontario police officer, admitting that she is not only supportive of the convoy of anti-vax truckers wreaking havoc on provincial highways, but is actually a prominent voice within an anti-vax organization of current and former cops.

“I’m Constable Erin Howard coming to you from Ontario, Canada,” the video begins, showing the officer in uniform in a darkened vehicle.

“I just really wanted to give a shoutout to all the truckers, I really think what you’re doing is incredible,” she continues. “You’re fighting for our rights and freedoms, and right now it feels like we’re a little bit at war, and those rights and freedoms are at stake. So you guys are honestly true heroes.”