Massive Crowds Cheer as Canadian Truckers Lead 'Freedom Convoy' Protesting Vaccine Mandates

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jan 27, 2022
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"This isn't even about a vaccine anymore. It's not. It's not about a vaccine mandate on truckers. I have been free my whole life, and, somehow, now, I'm not. This is Canada." -Robert Jorgenson, a trucker from Winnipeg

[Faithwire.com] A large group of Canadian truckers protesting vaccination mandates could form the world's largest convoy on their way to the country's capital city, Ottawa. (Screengrab image)

The Toronto Sun's Joe Warmington wrote that, according to Guinness World Records, the longest recorded truck convoy was a little more than 4.5 miles in Egypt in 2020. The so-called "Freedom Convoy," traveling from British Columbia to Ottawa, "is said to be considerably longer," he wrote.

While more than 85% of Canada's 120,000 truck drivers who regularly cross into the US are vaccinated against COVID-19, as many as 16,000 could be sidelined as a result of new vaccination restrictions put in place in Canada and by President Joe Biden's administration.

Many truckers are participating in the protest after Canada's Jan. 15 deadline forcing unvaccinated drivers to commit to two weeks of isolation and submit negative COVID-19 tests before being allowed back into the northern country.

Additionally, the Biden administration implemented new restrictions beginning Jan. 22, forcing non-US citizens entering the country at the Canadian border to show proof of vaccination before being permitted to come into the United States... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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