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Year 32 • issue 4
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FRIDAY • February 18 • 2022
It’s time to get the truck outta here! By Charlie Senack
They came in transport trucks and on horseback. For weeks, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of demonstrators have marched on Parliament Hill, demanding an end to all COVID-19 mandates. Barrhaven city councillors Jan Harder and Carol Anne Meehan say they have received various forms of communication from people on both sides of the debate, and feel it’s time for Ottawa Police to step up and bring in more enforcement. The demonstrations, which many now call a siege, started on Jan. 28 when truckers from all across Canada brought their convoys to the capital. The big rods and other transport trucks called for
an end to federal mandates, which require all truckers crossing the Canada/US border to be fully vaccinated, or face a two week quarantine. The demonstrators are now calling for all COVID-19 mandates to be lifted, including mandatory masks in indoor settings and vaccine passports. About 90 per cent of Canadian truckers are fully vaccinated. But what was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned rowdy on many occasions. Some truckers harassed workers at the Shepherds of Good Hope until they handed over free food. The National War Monument was urinated on, and the Terry Fox Statue was plastered with anti mandate signage.
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Barrhaven’s two councillors want more action from police to bring an end to the downtown protests that have disrupted the lives of many people throughout the city. Facebook photo
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