Canadian truckers are the wrong kind of protesters

Feb 9, 2022 by Jill

by Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, TCW:

A MANTRA much employed by Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau is ‘diversity is our strength’. That is, except when the little people disagree. The authoritarianism of the progressive left is paraded openly in Trudeau’s Canada.

The Freedom Convoy began as a reaction to the Trudeau government’s introduction of a rule saying that truckers who crossed the Canada-USA border would have to be vaccinated otherwise whenever they returned to Canada they would have to go into quarantine. This was in effect saying to the truckers, ‘Either you obey us and get vaccinated or you get out of work.’

In response the truckers did not meekly line up for a medical procedure which they thought they did not need. They got into their 18-wheelers and drove across the country to the capital Ottawa where for days now they have been making their protest in front of the parliament building and blocking the streets.

The mainstream media is portraying the truckers as ignorant redneck vandals out to destroy the nation’s cohesion and enforce their far-right ideas on the vast majority of peace loving, quiet, caring Canadians who just want to be safe. This ignores the support which the convoy has been gathering throughout Canada despite the media’s continually pushed viewpoint.

[…] It’s not just that GoFundMe and other arms of Big Tech support this progressive brand of civil disobedience. Behind it all is a view of the kind of society the progressive left wish to create in Canada, the USA, the UK, throughout the West and wherever its tentacles reach.

We have to grasp that we are in the midst of a new class war. The classes in conflict are not the socio-economic classes of classical Marxism, although that does have an impact. The classes are ideological groupings. The truckers are the wrong kind of demonstrators. They are largely white, working and middle class, conservative and freedom-loving; some of them are even, horror of horrors, Christians. They drive trucks and get their hands dirty at work, wear baseball caps and honk their truck horns, in short they are not ‘our kind of people’.

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Read also: A new dawn for the working class? by Joel Kotkin, spiked

How the Left betrayed the Truckers by Malcom Kyeyune, UnHerd