{"id":1264466,"date":"2022-02-02T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1264466"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:53:15","slug":"canadian-protester-waves-american-canadian-flags-in-ottawa-says-he-is-here-until-justin-trudeau-listens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-protester-waves-american-canadian-flags-in-ottawa-says-he-is-here-until-justin-trudeau-listens\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Protester Waves American, Canadian Flags In Ottawa, Says He Is \u2018Here Until Justin Trudeau Listens\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fcanadian-protester-waves-american-canadian-flags-in-ottawa-says-he-is-here-until-justin-trudeau-listens%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=1264466&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--><p>Truckers and other protesters continued to gather in Canada\u2019s national capital for a fifth day of protest on Tuesday, with many gathering on Parliament Hill demanding that the Canadian government end vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>One Ottawa resident, Michael Bergen, waved both American and Canadian flags telling the Ottawa Citizen that he would not leave until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heard his concerns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here until the end,\u201d Bergen <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/trucker-convoy-shutdown-continues-for-fifth-day-shepherds-of-good-hope-overwhelmed-by-donations\">stated<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m here until Justin Trudeau listens. We need some compromise. It\u2019s his turn to listen to people he may not agree with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained to the outlet that he was waving an American flag to show his \u201clove right back to them\u201d because of the mandate\u2019s cross-borders impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mandates don\u2019t just affect Canada, they affect the United States as well so I\u2019m showing my support for them, too,\u201d he noted. \u201cI\u2019m showing my love right back to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another protester, Dan Scott, gave food away to those in attendance at the protest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here for freedom of choice. People can get the vaccine or not,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been laid off since November and it just means a lot for me to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford <a href=\"https:\/\/kesq.com\/news\/2022\/02\/02\/multiple-investigations-are-underway-as-protests-in-canada-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-continue-police-say\/\">said<\/a> that it was time for the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d to leave the city and \u201clet the people of Ottawa get back to their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a million people that live in Ottawa, you know I hear you, I hear the protesters, the province hears the protesters, the country hears the protesters. Now it\u2019s time to let the people of Ottawa get back to their lives,\u201d he stated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet many protesters still seemed determined to stay on and express their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Paramedic Service chief Pierre Poirier said that \u201cemergency lanes have been maintained which has allowed us to provide an uninterrupted service downtown and throughout the city.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a convoy of thousands of trucks trekked across Canada headed to the capital. Organizers of the convoy have raised millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a peaceful country that has helped protect nations across the globe from tyrannical governments who oppressed their people, and now it seems it is happening here. We are taking our fight to the doorsteps of our Federal Government and demanding that they cease all mandates against its people,\u201d organizers<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/taking-back-our-freedom-convoy-2022?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&amp;utm_medium=copy_link_all&amp;utm_source=customer\"> explained<\/a> in the GoFundMe for the demonstrations that they set up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the protesters, who are vaccinated, support the demonstrations because they don\u2019t think that the government\u2019s mandate is the right approach. Others cite people who have lost their jobs because of the mandates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alberta farmer Dave Ridell <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/meet-the-truckers\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the National Post that job loss because of vaccine mandates was \u201ctotally unfair.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe amount of people who are unemployed because it\u2019s their personal choice whether they want to be vaccinated or not, it\u2019s not fair, just totally unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truckers and other protesters continued to gather in Canada\u2019s national capital for a fifth day of protest on Tuesday, with many gathering on Parliament Hill demanding that the Canadian government end vaccine mandates. One Ottawa resident, Michael Bergen, waved both American and Canadian flags telling the Ottawa Citizen that he would not leave until Prime &#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-1264466","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\/1264466","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=1264466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264466\/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=1264466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}