let's ask allison kendall pay a rich staff lawyer for the justice center for constitutional freedoms in canada. allison welcome. thank you for having me. reportedly, most canadian truckers are fully vaccinated. we've seen numbers around 85 to 90 percent. so as a practical matter, what's the beef? well that still leaves thousands of canadian truckers and american truckers who aren't vaccinated. and the issue is that even some vaccinated truckers are standing together with their unvaccinated brothers and sisters. and they're saying, you know what we have. we all have a right of choice about what medical treatments go into our bodies and they're standing together. so, i mean, this is, these are thousands of men and women who could be out of work and who have been faithfully and selflessly delivering goods and services throughout canada during the last 2 years of this pandemic. and now their livelihoods are being threatened. so they're standing together, vaccinated and unvaccinated against these mandates, which are unlawful on cnn ottawa artie correspondent john hardy, has been asking dem

we spoke to solicitor allison kendall, p h, who says the protesters have every right to continue the demonstration. under the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms. those protesters were there peacefully, have the right to assemble and gather together and protest that is protected and it is unlawful to interfere with that. so the prime minister has tried to brand these protests as violent and to take it out of the protection under the charter. but it's certainly not the case. so in our view of these actions, under the emergencies act, to try to disband this peaceful protest is completely unlawful and goes against canadians, charter rights and freedoms. there's a video going around of the prime minister, admitting that he has donated the federal government, has donated tens of millions of dollars to the mainstream media in canada. and so the state funded media is basically going with the narrative that you know the protests aren't peaceful and that the public should be against them. and by violating the privacy of these donors to this peaceful cause, it's, it's in our vi