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gathered in objection to the coven, 19 vaccine mandate. i'm sky now. here's an on this edition of 360 view. we're going to look at the trial, the leaders of the canadian freedom comm boy, and the effect that the outcome will have on future protests against the government . let's get started. the the freedom convoy was the largest and most expensive anti vaccine protest in the world. gathering the attention from not only the canadian parliament, but the ripple effect caused a similar protest around the globe are natural correspond at roxanna, solano joins us now to bring us up to speed on the protesters who are now on trial . scotty, the $22.00 day process, look, major roads and disrupted billions of dollars worth of international trade. well, there was an outpouring of support. the processors are now in trial to the side if
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he was freedom of speech or, or lawful assembly. there were reports at one point there were 50000 vehicles outside parliament in order one this disruptive daily life for many, those support or schools be seen along major highways and road vice and over passes us more truckers fields into the city. i one point canadian prime minister dusting to go in bulk emergency powers. i'm also getting him a lot of criticism for excessively abusing his 5 hours. i'm freezing the truckers bank accounts, occupying streets harassing people, breaking the law. this is not a peaceful protest. this is about keeping canadians safe, protecting people's jobs, and restoring confidence in our institutions on top of this us cro funding platform goals fund me suspended access to more than 4000000 raised by freedom convoy 2022.
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according to the campaigns. bates on go fund me. the funds were suppose to cover the cost of fuel 1st and hopefully food and lodges for the holders to ease the pressure of their arduous task. you know, be to complain, are you nicer to my relate, those supporters not to panic? it's really unfortunate what, what is happening here. so what's the rest as well? prep this thing and now she's on trial lead to increase barber, a trucking company owner, where'd the voice of the product the services are and then they go see ations. now both face charges on the sheets, obstructing police cancelling others to come me, me see, i mean, see me. nation. it is within everyone, right? to speak now and stand up for freedom. and that is what our conway is about. during the trial, prosecutors pay our products, lease and barber both are through their freedom comb. lloyd 2022 that do use the
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social media page to chronicle every moment of the products while there was no buying inside the process. both are facing up to 10 years in prison. i'm from center, so i know for 360 view back to use got a very interesting roxanna. thank you for covering to join me now discusses david henry, host of the crazy cook trucking podcast. thank you, david, for joining me. i want to start off with why do you think this freedom convoy and the protest in canada was one of the largest grassroot protests in the history of canada. what made it so popular and did this call to action work? well, i think god, people were sick and tired of mandates. people were tired of locked downs, tired of politicians just trying to dictate to us. and it was started like you said at the grassroots level and whether you
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you know, no matter who you are or what political stripe you are, people were tired of what was going on. and they worked. they were working where they were not working, didn't matter where you are from, people are just tired. and so lot of times some things like this can be spoken out loud. but then you get a, you get a group together and their strength and numbers right? strength of numbers because out of that pro test, we now have almost 2 years later, a trial going on. the most highly publicized trial going up against camera, lynch, and chris barber. why the 2 of them? well, they became the leaders. they were not the leaders to start with. and as they became the face of the pro test that was going on, they were the ones behind raising the money, especially tomorrow she,
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she was asked to, she came in later to the start of the convoy. and she was asked to help raise money . and so she took it and ran with it and uh, chris barber was as far as i understand, acquaintance of hers or somebody, they started working together anyway. and they were the ones holding the 1st strings. the activist and the trucking company owner had been accused of mischief, obstructing police and counseling, others to commit mischief and intimidation all when they organized a freedom con boy would truckers to shut down the streets of auto for 20 to day protests. all of us began a response to the mandatory vaccines for cross border truck drivers in early 2022. now in addition to this truckers parking their rates on parliament hill, there were thousands of others who turned out on foot. is this an accurate portrayal of what they did? there is others involved. but they were, they were the main ones because they were controlling the money and became,
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became the face of the protest. are there others being held accountable or on trial for the same thing? it wasn't just the cross border stuff that was going on that have been going on for a while already. think people are just getting tired of it and it was getting tougher and tougher to survive. economically, everybody talking bankhead and emotionally and psychologically people were suffering badly. and you know, tamara and chris were the main face of the protest. they were, they were the ones involved, but you can have something that's vague with only 2 people are running it. there's definitely more people, but because they put themselves out there so much, they basically put themselves in the line of fire and i don't
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know how many others are going to be charged or have been charged. but there are others that were involved. do you think this is more a political trial? oh, absolutely. yeah. i think, i think it's absolutely. uh, this is all politics. this is all, all about control and power. you know, as far as, like, i mean it's i guess it's kind of a canadian thing. i guess to have something so big going on and so much worldwide press and what did they get charged with mischief. like really? i think it's i think it's silly if. if the prime minister had met with the convoy a protest organizers this past week, a lot of this may not have happened. we just simply in action on the government's part. did you hear of any eye witness accounts of what happened to the truckers
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during the protest by law enforcement, which you would consider to be criminal on their side? until the left lighter days. there wasn't a lot of trouble from law enforcement. law enforcement was trying to help keep the peace a lot of them and you look back at video and stuff that was being broadcast. there's a lot of law enforcement that was behind this. and you know, there's the odd case of law enforcement taking things too far, but it was very rare until the very end. and then they were then they weren't wearing any badges. they weren't wearing any insignia. and they were trying to go the protesters into fighting back and creating a big problem. and they were never successful at doing that. all of the protesters there was a very canadian protest. they did not fight back. there is no fatalities. or
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while there was a couple of fatalities from people, but it's hard to say whether it was strictly protest related or preexisting condition conditions. but by and large, law enforcement was not a big problem for the broadcasters. david 20 today is actually a long time for protest of this size. do you feel the freedom convoy was taken over by extremist or outside agitators? where did you actually started to hear story, the violence and the other destruction breaking out? yeah, it was, it was taken over by i believe it was taken over by extreme us. and that's what many of us were afraid of was that it was going to devolve into something ridiculous. and there was a ton of political pressure from the prime minister's office and from others that were trying to insight ariah trying to make things worse.
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you any time you see people wearing a mask, you knew they were not part of the freedom thing. you know that every one of them, they didn't want to be identified. they were not part of their freedom thing because that was a big thing for the freedom. protesters was to show our face, shoulder face and the stand up for their own rights. and it, yeah, it, it started, there's a lot of outside forces and i'm, i'm really proud of all the protesters in that way that they did not react to those outside forces. do you think auto a law enforcement was expecting this large of a crowd where they prepared? i can't speak for them, but there was that the prime minister was trying to tell people that was just a small french minority of people with unacceptable views. and that there is only
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going to be a couple of dozen people. but if anybody that was following along on the media in the chat and seeing the protest convoy a rolling from west the east, they knew this was not going to be something small. like if they actually thought this was going to be something small? um they, they are not any part of reality because they, there was, i mean i, i, i live but it just a few miles away from the trans canada highway. and there was vehicles passing, passing by for hours. you know, it, it was not a small the same and i'm 1200 for 1400 miles away from where the protest actually happened. thank you, david henry, stay right there. because after the break, we're going to talk about how the truckers lives have changed since the conflict
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authorities originally built above the burial site of troops remains its memorials of the soldiers who gave their lives in world war 2. well sir, that's good. but i need to go to the department service department for the community transition in 2007, the custodial government decided to relocate the monument from the city center or for the gods. wanted to buy me to a, to really the sooner frustrated to move divided the population is stony, is large of russian speaking community. strongly opposed to an intense rising pro, college and talent. these have since become the as the bronze night drive. people across the
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welcome back to 360 view on your house scanning. now hughes and we are welcoming back david henry hosted the crazy conductor trucking podcast to discuss the canadian trucker trials. david, i want to start back off with when prime minister adjustments for though, and both the federal emergency laws, something that had happened for 50 years was the decision excessive and unjust. absolutely, absolutely unjust. absolutely. just a political move. he was scared of what was happening because this was not, this was obviously not just of a small minority of people. this was the frustration level from all walks of life and all types of people. and it was illegal. and after, after he invoked it, then there was a, there was an investigation started right away because that's part of the checks and
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balances. and he realized it was not going to end well for him. so you had to terminate it fairly suddenly as well. were the truckers representing other industries which did not have the means for a public protest against co good policies? absolutely, and this was not just people always call it a trucker con void, but it wasn't really so much. there was a lot of different people involved in that. there's people in cars, there's people and pickup trucks. there were farmers, they were there was a vast cross section of people there that the trucks take up a lot of room. there is a whole lot more than just truck truck drivers there, and there was many, many people and went through to invoke is emergency act that united even more people behind the protest because they even die hard. liberals saw this and they're just like, oh, this is not going to end. well,
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well that's even the bigger question, because now we have this trial going on and we've seen what's happening in united states in regards to january 6th and people who were protesting. what you think the impact will be in the outcome of these trials on future pro test? that's a good question. i really hope that this protest has shown regular people, grassroots people, and people have all, all walks of life. i hope it has shown to them that this is not something to be scared of. i was not at the protest myself, but and there's things i don't agree with with a protest, but there's also a lot of things i do agree with. and it's, it's a, it's going to be interesting to see how the trial works out because in my opinion that the charges are not not warranted for the actions that were taken.
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i don't, i don't know. i don't agree with everything that tomorrow encrypted for sure. but i hope people realize that speaking your voice standing up and speaking, you know, it's something that we should continue to do and not to be afraid of. it is a canadian government treating the trucking industry differently since these protest happened. you know, in regards to policies, agendas, how have they handled them moving forward? i don't, i haven't seen any differences in the way the government has been treating us because we are always kind of the it was pretty bad during during cove. it was really bad during all the locked downs and even though crudo had said that we are in a central service, we were not treated as such. and so there hasn't been any improvement. but i don't think it's got an gotten any worse. and you know,
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most of us were still out there working. uh, and like i said, there's a lot of different occupations that we're at the protest. so we're, we're, we're in an industry right now. this is taking a lot of hits and i wish it would be. i wish the government would be more on our side. or there are some good people that are trying hard to work with us. and uh, i'm thankful for that. okay, i need to be a little bit more specific. what are some of those hits that you feel like? the trucking industry has taken especially post cobit and you say there some. but why is it the government working together with the truckers to fix some of those problems? well they, they make some token shows of things, but they're not really doing anything to change the help help the life of truckers
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. there are, there are some things that are being done. the parking issue is huge and not getting you any better. um they're, they're working on plans that would be sufficient for maybe 30 years ago. you know, we're way behind in facilities for truck drivers and the, the rest stops. we travel sanders and things like that in canada or in horrible shape. and there's no controls on them. like why should, why should i, why should we have to deal with such unsanitary conditions? and everybody just seems to get away with it. and then, you know, we're under a lot of controls as far as our hours of service and, you know, we, we would, we need to have some relief. we need to have some better fuel prices. you know, it, it'd be nice to get the get the tax breaks that the railways get,
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but we don't get any of that, you know, and we pay for all the roads for our fuel taxes. and as you know we, we don't see any benefits of that. how do you feel the truckers of canada are treated by their government compared to countries around the world and how they treat the trucking industry? i only know a few other countries. um, so i don't know what many of them are like i think get counted in the us are fairly similar. um i think if you look at some of the european communities and the labor rights are much stronger in some of those places and drivers aren't allowed to be abused quite the same way. but i think there's always there's always room for improvement. and i,
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i just wish we could just get better at treating people and taking care of their mental health no matter what occupation they're in. so then how much of the canadian economy is reliant upon the trucking industry? i percent 100 percent. nothing happens. nothing moves except by a truck except babies. the only thing that's not delivered by a truck is a baby. and you look at every thing, whether it's crops coming off of the field, going into a place where they can make bread or a steel co coming out of mines going into steel or whatever it is. every thing at some point in its life is on a truck. and if their truck or shut down. and i think there is a 2 and a half days that people would have or uh,
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before everything just goes completely haywire without the trucks to a 100 percent. which begs the question, are canadians actually free? uh yeah, i guess its sliding rule depends on your perspective. i guess um not as free as when i was younger. um we have still. i think we're still one of the most free countries. but our current government is trying hard to make us communist and control everything. and so we'll see, we'll just, we can, we'll have to keep standing up for ourselves and encourage everybody everywhere. stand up for yourself and don't be bullied to be pushed around by your government. how will protest against vaccine and mass mandates be different if the canadian
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government tries to oppose them in the future? if these controls come back and if nothing good is going to come of that people are already mentally and psychologically damaged from the last one. and i don't think on either side of the political spectrum, it's gonna, it's gonna work out well. and i hope that this stuff doesn't come back because that nothing, nothing good will come of this. do you think there will be any future arrest and prosecutions from the freedom crompley? i think i hope that everybody that's been charged and that's the final number. i can't see them coming up with anymore. i mean, they had to, they're, in my opinion, they're reaching very hard to come up with some charge and all they can come up with mischief and inciting others to invest just like i still think. that's just my opinion. i think it's just so silly that that's the best they can come up
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with. you know, they, they do an investigation and all they can say is they were misty. this like, uh, that, that just seems wrong. so i can't see them. i don't think there'd be their political will to do any more than that because if they go after more than just chris and tamara, i think uh it will be the end of the beginning of the end for those politicians. thank you, david henry, you can hear more from him as a host of the crazy conduct trucking podcast. you know, i'm finding i run it to the canadian government and prime minister have continued to take a hard stance. i guess a gathering of their own people who are just looking for freedom to choose something in regards to their own health. it is never good when the government finds itself on the opposite of freed up. the one entity which those and elected offices are actually sworn to protect. they even chose to take it to the next level
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