{"id":1255891,"date":"2022-01-30T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1255891"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:09:45","slug":"watch-ezra-levant-speaks-to-canadian-truckers-the-point-is-the-convoy-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ezra-levant-speaks-to-canadian-truckers-the-point-is-the-convoy-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH &#8211; Ezra Levant Speaks to Canadian Truckers: &#039;The Point Is the Convoy Itself&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-ezra-levant-speaks-to-canadian-truckers-the-point-is-the-convoy-itself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1255891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Canadian-truckers-protest-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ezra Levant, the founder of Canada\u2019s conservative Rebel News network, gave a stirring address Saturday in the country\u2019s capital, Ottawa, as a massive convoy of trucks protesting vaccine mandates arrived at Parliament Hill to register their dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The convoy, which began a week ago, became a global sensation and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/01\/30\/l-a-county-registrar-clears-recall-petition-2-0-for-soros-backed-george-gascon\/\">raised<\/a> millions of dollars to support truckers as they oppose U.S. and Canadian mandates requiring that truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border show proof of vaccination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Levant, speaking amid the din of horns and bells, was welcomed by the crowd, and gave a short but powerful address.<\/p>\n<p>He began by talking about the media bias against conservatives, and against the truckers and their cause: \u201cWhen people say, what do we do about the media, we become the media. \u2026 You\u2019ve got to tell the story yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government says you\u2019re racist, the government says you\u2019re sexist, the government says you\u2019re violent. In the meantime, I\u2019ve never seen a more diverse group of Canadians,\u201d he said, to rousing cheers. \u201cFar from violent, people want to not be violated anymore. [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau says you\u2019re extreme, but he\u2019s the one who has violated our civil rights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe says you\u2019re a fringe. Well, that\u2019s a pretty bloody big fringe.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was invited by the truckers to give a short speech. Here\u2019s what I said:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZYclZwDBtH\">pic.twitter.com\/ZYclZwDBtH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ezra Levant \ud83c\udf41 (@ezralevant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevant\/status\/1487539356625682437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Levant predicted that Trudeau would cling to power, despite the convoy. Still, the protest would not be in vain: \u201cLet me tell you what I think the point is: The point is the convoy itself, to show that you\u2019re not alone, to show that you\u2019re not the crazy one, they are. TO show that you\u2019re not the un-Canadian one, they are. You already achieved your goal by being here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/29\/trump-praises-canadian-freedom-convoy-protesting-trudeaus-vaccine-mandates\/\">praised<\/a> the \u201cfreedom convoy\u201d in a speech at a rally in Texas on Saturday:&nbsp;\u201cThe Canadian truckers, you\u2019ve been reading about it, who are resisting bravely these lawless mandates are doing more to defend American freedom than our own leaders by far. \u2026 [W]e want those great Canadian truckers to know that we are with them all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Levant, the founder of Canada\u2019s conservative Rebel News network, gave a stirring address Saturday in the country\u2019s capital, Ottawa, as a massive convoy of trucks protesting vaccine mandates arrived &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}