Canada,
America's quiet upstairs neighbor,
or at least they used to be.
Because, as you may have heard,
there is a major antivaccine protest
taking place in Canada's capital city of Ottawa right now.
Now, antivaccine protests are pretty common these days, right?
But these protestors are different,
because they're truck drivers,
which means they have trucks.
And people with trucks have more power
than any other people.
They just do. This is, like, a fact of trucks.
Think about it-- in every heist movie ever,
what do they need to pull off the heist?
A truck. Yeah.
When a Batman villain tries to shut down the city,
they need a truck.
Having trucks just gives you the ability
to outmuscle people who don't have trucks.
And so, even though 90% of Canadian truckers are vaxxed,
this small minority is still able to cause big problems.
They've essentially shut down Downtown Ottawa
for two weeks now.
And if you want to know why these truckers are so fired up,
well, they're more than happy to tell you.
What is the stuff that you can't do right now
as-as a nonvaccinated person?
I live in Quebec, so it's a bit more intense
than other places in Canada.
But, look, I can't go skiing. I can't go to Walmart.
I can't go to Canadian Tire. I can't go to Home Depot.
I can't go to restaurants. I can't go to bars.
I can't go to the gym.
And because you're not vaccinated, have you...
Is there a business, is there stuff you can't do
in Canada now?
Yeah, like, I'm like-- I'm like--
Well, basically, if you want to compare Canada,
uh, to anything, it's like, uh,
Hitler's Germany
and we're like the Jews, eh?
You see, this is why we shouldn't be banning books.
Because now this guy thinks
that the Holocaust is
when you can't take a shit in a Tim Hortons.
I mean, even Marjorie Taylor Greene is looking at this guy,
like, "Dude, this isn't anything like the Holocaust.
There's no soup here at all."
It's actually wild when you think about it,
like, how many different ways
people disrespect Holocaust survivors.
Because some people are like,
"What happened to you didn't happen."
And then some people are like,
"No, what happened to you did happen,
"and it's happening again to me right now,
because I can't go skiing. Team."
But, anyway, the point is, these truckers
and their supporters feel persecuted.
And when this started, it was just a protest
against vaccine requirements for truckers.
But it's now grown into a wider movement
against all coronavirus restrictions.
They want vaccine mandates gone.
They want mask mandates gone.
They want to be free to sneeze into strangers' mouths again,
like the good old days.
But blocking traffic in Downtown Ottawa hasn't done the trick,
so now they've decided to take things up a notch.
NEWSWOMAN: A crucial trade link
between Canada and the United States
was disrupted by protesters for a third day in a row.
The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest international crossing
in North America, linking Windsor, Ontario,
to Detroit, while another border crossing in Ontario
is experiencing an hours'-long delay.
The Ambassador Bridge sees about one-quarter
of all the goods that go between the two countries every day.
On a normal day,
that's about $340 million worth of goods rolling through.
And the impact is already being felt.
Ontario auto plants, including Ford and Stellantis,
reduced production over the last 24 hours
due to missing parts from shipments.
NEWSWOMAN 2: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling
for an end to the protests.
Right now, people in Windsor are suffering
and losing their jobs 'cause they can't get auto parts
across the Ambassador Bridge.
Yeah, you see? You see?
Now you can really see how much of an impact
the truck protest can have.
You just park a bunch of them on a bridge,
just a key bridge. Boom!
International trade slows to a trickle.
Which I didn't even know could still happen, by the way.
You know, 'cause that almost sounds like a story
from medieval times.
You know, when the army would block one mountain pass,
and then your entire village would starve.
Then you'd have to eat your horse, and then your dog,
and then eventually, you'd be forced to eat your own children.
And then, right as you finish eating your last child,
the siege would end, and you'd have to spend the rest
of your life in therapy.
I just feel really bad for eating my own children.
Look, you can't blame yourself.
That path was closed for almost two days.
Like, think about it. Think about it.
If these were just regular protesters on foot,
the cops would have cleared them out by now.
But to move a truck, you need someone who can drive a truck,
which isn't as easy as it sounds.
It takes months of training to be able to sit
in the driver's seat of a truck
and not just honk the horn the whole time.
It's extremely tempting.
So now, these truckers are finding a lot of support
not just from Canadians, but from Republicans
in the United States. Yeah. Rand Paul, Donald Trump,
everyone on Fox News are coming out
in support of these truckers, which I do find kind of funny.
Because all of these people who are cheering on the truckers
are like, "Yeah, shut it all down, truckers!
Bring the economy to its knees!"
Aren't those the same people who said
we shouldn't have any COVID restrictions
because the last thing we wanted to do
is bring an economy down to its knees?
I mean, so, basically what?
It's-it's not worth hurting the economy
just to save countless lives, but it is to make a point?
Then, if you're just making a point, then it's like,
"Yeah, go for it, buddy! You got it!"?
But regardless, these Republicans are now calling
for the trucker movement to come to America.
And it looks like they might soon get their wish.
Ottawa's so-called "Freedom Convoy"
spawning similar anti-vax mandate protests
in cities around the world.
In Australia, protesters assembled
outside the capitol building,
many waving Australian flags and signs asking for freedom.
In New Zealand, protesters camped outside Parliament
for a second day.
And in France, hundreds of protesters
in Nice headed for Paris, waving Canadian flags.
NEWSMAN 2: The Department of Homeland Security is telling
law enforcement authorities it's receiving reports
that a similar kind of convoy could soon begin in the U.S.
NEWSMAN 3: The department has "received reports
"of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads
in major metropolitan cities in the United States."
The protests could begin as soon as Sunday in Los Angeles
to disrupt the Super Bowl, and then travel across the country
to disrupt President Biden's State of the Union in D.C.
on March 1.
Whoa! These guys want to disrupt the Super Bowl.
I don't know, man. That seems like a terrible strategy.
I mean, think about it. You'd be ruining one
of the last things that everyone in America loves. Everyone.
You're going to block the Super Bowl?
What's your follow-up? Driving over Dolly Parton?
And honestly, I don't know how
disrupting Super Bowl traffic is even gonna work.
Right? If you're in Los Angeles on Super Bowl Sunday,
you're the one who is going to be stuck in the traffic.
-(horn honking) -"Come on, move it!
I got to get to the traffic disruption! Come on!"
And not to mention, disrupting the State of the Union
could also backfire on these truckers. Yeah.
They're gonna come there and then, what? Honk their horns?
You realize all those horns are just
gonna help Biden stay awake?
State of the State of the Union. Yeah. Yeah.
-(truck horn honking) -Oh, it's strong.
State of the Union's strong. Come on, Jack!
It's so strong. Super strong, man.
So, yeah, these trucker protesters
from Canada might be coming to America,
and if that's the case, we got to prepare ourselves,
because a lot of things that are big in Canada--
they blow up much more when they come to America, you know?
Drake, Justin Bieber,
those cool weed posters that they got up there.
But I will say this.
The funny thing about the whole protest is that
when it comes to coronavirus restrictions in America,
what are they going to be protesting?
There's not a whole lot left, right?
I mean, coronavirus isn't over,
but everyone has already started to act like it is.
Businesses are open, schools are in session,
and even the bluest states are getting rid of mask mandates.
So I guess what I'm saying is, congratulations, truck drivers!
You did it!
So I guess now there's no need to block the Super Bowl. Please.
Unless the Rams start winning. Then you block that shit.
I bet my house on the Bengals, man.
Block everything. You drive on the field. You just block them.