Trudeau flees as first 1,000 Trucks Arrive in Ottawa

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Reading through the thread and I didn't realize that others here in the Ottawa area (IsabellaLinton) have had a situation more rough than I had to deal with, or what others can comprehend. I was deemed an essential worker from the beginning, but had a then 7 month old at the beginning of the pandemic with my wife at home watching him while collecting EI maternity benefits. She returned to work as she was essential to and the child went to daycare. Unfortunately my wife couldn't get her driver's license thanks to Ontario government lockdown restrictions for at least a year and this resulted in me driving her 20 km from our house twice a day and back. My workplace in comparison is only 4 km away from home. I dealt with this frustration for a year with what felt like no end in sight. Thankfully, she was able to get her g2 in Hawkesbury as the Ottawa locations were full once the system opened up again.

We both got vaccinated as per her job requirements. She was 4 months pregnant when fully vaccinated. She eventually had heart palpitations at 6 months and had to be given medication to get through the pregnancy. The child arrived a few days ago. Throughout the early part of this new omicron wave, I started seeing the media spew some massive loads of BS about pregnant women should get the booster and it will be safe. My wife was never pushed due to the condition she developed and the hospital staff never brought it up once on her periodic visits.

I have also seen our own doctors more or less refuse us in person visits. I have over the phone consultations about an ulcer in my stomach that likely got worse due to the stress of all the driving around and watching my credit rating slowly start to suffer due to the risingn gas costs as well as my wife taking unpaid time off when she got palpitations.
Again, I start seeing BS in the media about how much money Canadians saved. There is my frustration with the provincial level of politics and govenrment

Now inflation also got really high and federal elections back in September showed that noone really cared about affordability. There didn't seem to be any action plan. Even worse was Trudeau saying he doesn't think about monetary policy. We also get a new holiday meant to remember the indigenous suffering and our PM spends the day out on holiday rather than do what the media was lecturing us about on how to spend the day off (remembering the residential school victims). Then we go through October and now vaccination is forced on people so to speak. My wife develops her condition and now I am legit worried that when the 3rd dose is mandated that her ei benefits will be cutoff if she can't get proof of exemption.

Now to the truckers. It was already a stupid idea for the provinces to mandate hospital staff to get vaccinated. Ontario and Quebec eventually started asking those hospital staff to work sick with Omicron or Covid 19. Now truckers get the mandate. I think nothing of it at first. 10% of truckers not vaccinated seems small. Then the American media presents the fact that almost 60% of their truckers aren't vaccinated. That tells me any food shortage we see in Canada (especially remote northern communities) will be more severe than predicted at some point. This tells me our prime minister is stupid, just doesn't care, or both. Or quite possibly, he does in fact want to be a dictator.

Tl Dr. Version.
With all the frustration from these lockdown restrictions causing some health problems for me and my wife, the rising costs of everything despite not getting salary increases to make up for the costs, and now mandates that seem to make the healthcare and transport industries worse, I can say I don't blame anyone for wanting to protest.

Yup, the southern border is not wide open.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... e-trying-/

Both countries have the same vaccine requirements for cross border travel, including truckers. Why should Canada allow unvaccinated truckers in while the USA doesn't extend that to Canadians?

Why should either country loosen up mandates when hospitals are still jammed with unvaccinated covid patients? Why should Canada bear the cost of an unvaccinated American trucker getting sick here and having to take up space in a Canadian hospital?

Politifact failed to mention the courts ruled for Biden to reinstate the Trump RIM policy. There is now evidence Biden admin is still moving illegals into the country by disobeying the court order. Dec was a record number almost as big as last July which was the largest in 21 years. These are apprehensions nobody knows how many crossed illegally.

What evidence?
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/tweet ... rder-data/

We all know the states are doing that. I don't see the effect being quite as severe for them as us due to us having to rely on them for food more than they need from us.

Let me repeat... 60% of vaccinated truckers in the states means that our food shortage could potentially be more severe than predicted.

And as for our hospitals being overwhelmed,
I don't think our provinces clearly give a flying you know what about covid at this point if our governments here are now asking the hospital staff to work sick and testing positive with covid anyway. But they sure are quick to deflect blame on unvaccinated and start restricting people from buying affordable groceries from Costco or Walmart. These governments sure care alright.