Organizers of the Freedom Convoy that has occupied Ottawa, Canada have issued their demands for freedom to be returned to the nation.
QUICK FACTS:
- Freedom Convoy organizers have issued an official list of demands, according to The National File.
- The pro-freedom trucker group has been protesting vaccine mandates as well as other COVID-related restrictions and asked that they be lifted in order for the occupation to end.
- Freedom Convoy’s seven demands include the end of vaccine mandates for truckers, vaccine passports, and emergency declarations, but also job restoration, and family reunification.
- The group also reiterated that they “have no intentions of acting outside of the democratic process to get any of their goals.”
THE ORGANIZERS’ DEMANDS:
- Freedom Convoy leadership stated their demands with the following message: One: End all vaccine mandates for all Canadians, truckers, travelers, employees, health care workers, law enforcement agents, and soldiers.
- Two: Cancel provincial and municipal vaccine passports and masking requirements.
- Three: End all state of emergency declarations.
- Four: Allow those who have lost their jobs to go back to work.
- Five: Grant access to parents that lost access to their kids. Be reunited.
- Six: Financial protection for all small businesses harmed by COVID restrictions.
- Seven: Respect freedom of choice and not discriminate.
BACKGROUND:
- The Freedom Convoy has occupied the nation’s capital since Jan. 22, causing disruption to the city and it’s commerce.
- They’ve also caused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to flee his home, according to Yahoo News, and report from an “undisclosed location.”
- The Canadian government has responded to the truckers’ peaceful protest by freezing their funds, according to Fox News, and attempting to run the group out of the city by threatening mass-arrests, as The New York Post reported.
- The residents of Ottawa, however, have been largely supportive, even giving gas to protesters and foiling police attempting to stop them by coming out en mass with empty or water-filled cans so the police couldn’t stop and seize containers actually containing fuel, according to The National Post.
