Why JT wants to end Freedom Convoy demonstration in Ottawa

bver_hunter

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I'm with 45% of the surveyed people in an Angus Reid poll.
Larger than the percentage of people who actually support the convoy.
https://angusreid.org/trudeau-convoy-trucker-protest-vaccine-mandates-covid-19/
" What is perhaps even more notable within this discussion is the overall impact that the protests have had on public opinion regarding pandemic-related mandates and restrictions. By nearly a two-to-one margin, Canadians say that they are now more likely to support both federal vaccine requirements at the Canada-U.S. border and indoor mask requirements in their communities"
 
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When a good portion of the population has a such visceral reaction to the media, a decent journalist should ask himself, why? Else he might end up like the CNN.
Most have. The answer is angry people in social media bubbles.
 

versitile1

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Yes, in Ottawa it is!!!
The convoy was camped out in multiple spots in Ottawa for 3 weeks but a 15 minute walk is too far?
 
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It is funny how people from Toronto try to discuss our life in Ottawa. Yes, 15 minute walk is way too far in Downtown Ottawa if you are going south. Even if you start at the northern point of DT (where the protest was) it is more than half-way to 417. It is not a downtown anymore - it is a centre town with a mixture of low-rise apartment building, cafes, and crappy 2-story houses changed into apartments. Noone ever protest there. Protesters were on Wellington street and 2-3 streets South of it: traffic on Laurie ave was as usual. And nothing ever happens south of Somerset (except bad Asian massage). So, stop trying to attach irrelevant events to demonstration and talk about Ottawa using your Toronto standards. The everlasting road construction on Elgen street bough more traffic problems than protests on Wellington street.
 

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Most have. The answer is angry people in social media bubbles.
A crisis reveals who you are and your values. The Canadian lefties revealed themselves as fascists.
 

jcpro

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You and your fringe minority are the ones who lost here.
You can never be defeated when standing for what is right. You can only be suppressed. But, understand your confusion. The totalitarians ALWAYS confuse might with right.
 
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You can never be defeated when standing for what is right. You can only be suppressed. But, understand your confusion. The totalitarians ALWAYS confuse might with right.
I dunno, JC. It seems to be a pretty major, ass-kicking good defeat to me!
 
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versitile1

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It is funny how people from Toronto try to discuss our life in Ottawa. Yes, 15 minute walk is way too far in Downtown Ottawa if you are going south. Even if you start at the northern point of DT (where the protest was) it is more than half-way to 417. It is not a downtown anymore - it is a centre town with a mixture of low-rise apartment building, cafes, and crappy 2-story houses changed into apartments. Noone ever protest there. Protesters were on Wellington street and 2-3 streets South of it: traffic on Laurie ave was as usual. And nothing ever happens south of Somerset (except bad Asian massage). So, stop trying to attach irrelevant events to demonstration and talk about Ottawa using your Toronto standards. The everlasting road construction on Elgen street bough more traffic problems than protests on Wellington street.
A 15 minute walk is too far because "it is not a downtown anymore, it is a centre town"?

Do you think it's a coincidence that the window was smashed after the owner spoke out against the convoy on CTV?

Why are you trying to stop other peoples' freedom of expression? I thought you convoy supporters were all about protecting our rights?
 

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You can never be defeated when standing for what is right. You can only be suppressed. But, understand your confusion. The totalitarians ALWAYS confuse might with right.
I guess that just proves you're not standing for what is right then.
'Cuz this movement sure is defeated.
 
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fall

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A 15 minute walk is too far because "it is not a downtown anymore, it is a centre town"?

Do you think it's a coincidence that the window was smashed after the owner spoke out against the convoy on CTV?

Why are you trying to stop other peoples' freedom of expression? I thought you convoy supporters were all about protecting our rights?
And here is another example of how you always twist what other people say. Please, give me a quote from my original post where tries to stop people' freedom of expression. note that "stop trying to apply Toronto standards to Ottawa" is no stopping freedom of expression but request to stop application of standards of one place to another: I am sure that even you cam understand that Ottawa is a much smaller city than Toronto
 

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Watching the presser today with Trudeau, Freeland and gang. They are being way too vague about when they are ending use of the financial tools. They are saying it could be up for months and continue to be "pre-emptively used". No end date therefore to the Emergency Act.

Thats a blatant violation of civil rights. Its assuming a crime to be committed in the future and penalizing someone without due process.
 
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And here is another example of how you always twist what other people say. Please, give me a quote from my original post where tries to stop people' freedom of expression. note that "stop trying to apply Toronto standards to Ottawa" is no stopping freedom of expression but request to stop application of standards of one place to another: I am sure that even you cam understand that Ottawa is a much smaller city than Toronto
Silly argument.

If you're at parliament you can either walk to the market, off to Bank street or go past the NAC for coffee/food.
Bank/Queen area is closest but its likely too corporate and I expect everything shut down for the anti vaxxers.
The market is too cool for people with upside down Canadian flags.
So that means you're left walking a bit further to Somerset find a coffee shop that will will risk their Ottawa business for a couple of weeks of street shitters.

I wasn't there, but have family who are and have worked there enough over the years.
15 minutes will get you to the market or your coffee shops vs 6 minutes to get to the closed corporate spots downtown.
 

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