Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show across the nation. The phone number is 87797997. Eric 877-975 if you wish to be a part of this year program. We are now officially, it is, if you're listening to this on delay, I say this on

February 15th, 2022. We are now at 30. Kathleen Rice, the Democrat from New York and the U.S.

House of Representatives is retiring. That's 30. It is

February 15th. For perspective, it was May of 2010 when the Democrats hit 30 retirements

during the big Tea Party era wave. They got to 35 by July we're already at 30 and it's

February 15th this is why Nancy Pelosi decided to stay she did not want to be number 30

she may quit after after the election but she's going to stay on until the election is over now

we will get into that later but I want to begin the program discussing the trucker strike in Canada. The truckers in Canada

are protesting. I shouldn't say striking. They're protesting. They are protesting because of the vaccine mandate in Canada,

among other things. The science has now changed to quote what people say. We know that

Omicron is far less severe. We know that the vaccines aren't really effective against it.

We know that it's on the decline.

It's even on the decline in Canada.

And yet the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,

has demanded everyone get the vaccine.

And it's applied to truckers now.

And most truckers in Canada, every survey has shown, are actually vaccinated,

but there are some who are not.

So they have decided to protest beyond protesting, however, they are blocking traffic.

They are blocking commerce and trade.

They've been blocking bridges.

They've been tying up the traffic in

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