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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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On Sunday, the Freedom Convoy 2022 held its first press conference with organizers Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter, and Chris Barber and bashed the legacy media, only taking questions from independent journalists.

“We have all the time in the world,” Dichter stated. He continued:

This is also why we omitted certain news agencies from this press conference, including the Toronto Star and the CBC who are banned from this press conference. And the reason they were banned is twofold. First, this entire week the CBC, Toronto Star – Yahoo News were retweeting and reposting with a few others – kept putting stories out that our GoFundMe was frozen or suspended because of nefarious reasons. You know “right-wing truckers,” “dangerous people,” and it was hysterical, me and Tamara were talking.

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Originally posted by selogic:
What in the hell is going on in Canada ? My whole life I always thought they were pretty much like us except for their fascination for hockey .
Now it seems like every week they take another couple of steps toward some kind of socialist dictatorship . I've been halfway following the battle that some of the indigenous people are having with a pipeline company and the government is using the RCMP like a bunch of Stormtroopers. It's just getting crazy up there .

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Originally posted by corsair:

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Originally posted by selogic:
What in the hell is going on in Canada ? My whole life I always thought they were pretty much like us except for their fascination for hockey .
Now it seems like every week they take another couple of steps toward some kind of socialist dictatorship . I've been halfway following the battle that some of the indigenous people are having with a pipeline company and the government is using the RCMP like a bunch of Stormtroopers. It's just getting crazy up there .

If you've never been to Canada, don't know of any Canadians nor, read-up on anything Canada...you'd think Canada was the 51st state. Like the US, the urban-metro areas and the Eastern provinces, principally Quebec and Ontario are heavily Left, all other areas are more conservative. Like the press here in the US, the Canadian press has worked hard over the last 30-years to libel and disparage anybody who identifies or associates themselves with the Conservative party while over-stating and pumping up the Liberal and Greens. Thus, your province or, territory may be quite rural or, you hold traditional/conservative values important but, people continue to vote Left against their best interests. Then there's the Quebecois...the giant curve-ball to Canada.