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Well our top story, we have Amola Epinobi on live on the ground in Ottawa, ground zero

of the protest of the quote unquote freedom trucker, Convoy Amola.

Tell us what's happening.

First and foremost Taylor, what I want to say is I wouldn't call this a protest.

I'd call this a riot.

There's a lot of disarray here.

I mean a lot of damages being done, psychological damages to the people here living in Canada

with the constant beeping right now.

If you look behind me, there is a man lighting a fire.

Oh my gosh.

I mean of course that fire is in a barbecue grill, but we can't you know, we can't be too

lenient on these things.

We don't know what could happen.

That is arson.

Compared to the fire that was we saw spreading across cities in the US with entire towns and

buildings on fire all across the place.

I mean, you really can't compare these two things Taylor.

I must say those those those protests as we saw after George Floyd, we reported we're

mostly peaceful and we reported correctly.

Now I'm watching here.

They're they're defacing statues putting little cardboard sign on a statue that says

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