From the seat of his big rig, protest convoy leader Dave Steenburg regularly takes to TikTok to call for respect and calm.
Steenburg would not answer further questions about the video, the anti-vaccine content on his channel or if he had connections to the Soldiers of Odin. The press will twist his words, he said, but he welcomed reporters to come to Ottawa to ask him questions “where we can record the conversation.” “That’s the point. This isn’t a few bad apples,” said Balgord. “Every single group we monitor is involved in leading or participating in this convoy. What is actually lost here are the concerns of the actual truckers.”
The convoy is to arrive in Ottawa on Saturday for what Canada Unity calls “operation bear hug.” The group has produced a “memorandum of understanding” calling for the end of all vaccine mandates in Canada or else the convoy won’t stop the protest. “They were saying, ‘We are not doctors or nurses or front-line health care workers’ and they are mostly alone in their trucks. Canadians generally are not mandated to get vaccinated, so they were asking why were they,” Balgord said, noting around 90 per cent of Canadian truckers are vaccinated. “But that has been completely taken over by the COVID conspiracy theory, far-right groups.”
While the Soldiers of Odin are not active, other newer groups have espoused direct support for the convoy, including the Diagolon network, an anti-government movement that wants to see the creation of a secession state that extends from the Canadian Prairies across the United States into Florida.
Wow toronto star!!! We see through your Bullshit. New low.
Could say the same thing about the BLM logo too.
Right wing extremists do not have a seat in the government of Canada! No seat = No say! It's pathetic Canada’s conservative politicians are siding with them. Rightwing NeverVoteConservative NeverVoteppc iStandWithTrudeau IStandWithBiden FluTruxKlan DomesticTerrorists
What is it, your trying to accomplish, if anything!
These people always wait til the cover if darkness, then WEAR MASKS to hide themselves as they go about their nefarious dealings.
No one should be inciting hate or violence in Canada. ...does this count as inciting hate or violence..? Asking for a friend
yes ONE GUY and of course coming from TorStar, i would doubt that info. look how far back you had to dig. SHAMELESS.
Of course.
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