Besides this convoy there are a lot of innocent people living, working & being about their lives in the downtown corrider. We have seen on TV that some of these convoy people have brought weapons with them & have said they are prepared to use them if the other side shows any force to remove them, hence the stalemate. I assume & hope that governments both federally & provincially will eventually back down & begin to reduce & withdraw some mandates to appease these people to avoid violence & a gun fight in downtown Ottawa with Canadian citizens. We need these convoy people to be resonable, but we also need government to be more reasonable as well. Some of this also lies at the feet of all governments in that if they were not such total douche bags & liars maybe people would believe them a little more. Hopefully, our scientists & doctors are much more trutworthy & have been telling us the truth since it's next to impossible to believe any politician from any political party.
The problem is that a number of businnesses are the ones who have mandated that their employees be vaxed & not the government. A friend of mine did not want to get vaxed, but because he is a brick layer the sites where his company did business was demanding that all contractor's emplyees on their stites be vaxed. I don't know how these protesters can change what private companies are doing? Unfortunately, there are also a number of people who are hiding among this convoy who are anarchists or attention seekers or are out to just create trouble & they need to be weeded out as well. Covid numbers are dropping which should help push this closer to a resolution, but we could be here until the spring too.
The government did not tell my friend's business to demand that the people on site be vaxed it was the business operating the project that has demanded it for eveyone's safety & to avoid unacceptable delays in the project moving forward should someone get covid & they have to close the site down for a while. His business could not afford to send them to where a vax restriction is not in place since most of the sites where they operate were demanding the same thing & they didn't want to lose the business. How many people who are vaxed want to be around people who are not? The only way to assure that everyone is somewhat safe is to assure everyone is vaxed, not being vaxed & Covid continuing to linger around costs businesses money. If my friend doesn't work he doesn't get paid & we all know the consequences of not having enough money to pay the bills in a captilistic society.
If half your staff/employees are vaxed & don't want to work with unvaxed people than what to you do? Are the unvaxed now going to demand they fire the vaxed instead when over 80% of Canadians have been vaxed? It becomes a never ending circle jerk of loud mouths yelling at each other with no reasonable conclusion. No PM or parliamentarian I would hope would or should engage in violence against their own people. But the people who live in this city have rights & freedoms too & this convoy does not seem bothered to inconvenience them in any way. A slow methodical approach where both sides engage & publicly denounce violence is what is best for everyone concerned. We don't want to see a gun fight if there are children down there & we don't want to see parents dragged off to jail in front of their children, this isn't the US. We want the adults in the room to talk & resolve this peacefully so we can return to some normalcy in our lives.
The Peace Bridge is different in that it affects the economy & if there is one thing rich people hate more than anything it's losing money on both sides of the border. If you think there are shortages now throughout the economy if this isn't solved soon the stores will be even more empty with more idiots thinking they need to do something & will join the melle. The police IMO will eventually remove these people & their vehicles, but hopefully the fines will be enough to make these guys think twice about what this could cost them in real money. Where does one person's freedoms end & mine begin? Just a thought.
