The Canadian Trucker Revolt
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Ottawa truckers protest is neither exclusive to Ottawa nor strictly composed of truckers. And its supporters are hoping to head to a city near you.
Guest: Jesse Brown, editor-in-chief of Canadaland.
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| 0:00.0 | Between forgetting the sellotape, |
| 0:01.6 | trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table |
| 0:04.1 | and the cat taking down the tree. |
| 0:06.1 | Again! |
| 0:08.1 | Christmas can be tricky. |
| 0:10.4 | At least with Royal Mail, sending parcels is easy. |
| 0:13.6 | You can save time and money when you buy your postage online |
| 0:16.3 | and will collect from your door for zero pounds. |
| 0:18.6 | Whether you have one, two or twenty to send, |
| 0:21.4 | just click, save and will collect. |
| 0:23.6 | Visit RoyalMail.com forward slash send. |
| 0:26.5 | Simple. Offer end 31st of December for details online. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey everyone, I may have cursed just a little bit in this episode, |
| 0:35.9 | so you've been warned. |
| 0:43.1 | As someone who cannot stand to be stuck in traffic, |
| 0:47.1 | I've been thinking about how much I would hate to be an auto-what |
| 0:50.1 | candidate these days. |
| 0:58.6 | Hundreds of big rigs have poured into the city and parked right in front of parliament |
| 1:04.8 | to protest COVID restrictions. |
| 1:07.2 | They call themselves the Freedom Convoy. |
| 1:10.3 | There's been a lot of honking involved. |
| 1:12.9 | They even erected a little structure where they kept diesel fuel and they have people |
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