the canadian truckers freedom convoy is
still going strong as the standoff is
taking its toll on the supply chain
jeff flock is live in ottawa canada with
a first-hand look at this convoy good
morning jeff
segan pretty impressive out here i'll
tell you that you know if people thought
this was going to peter out
they haven't seen the peter biltz
we are in now the start of week three
right in front of the of the parliament
here in downtown ottawa and maybe you
see an incredible picture i want to walk
over to these trucks over here uh
they're as far as you can see
there have been more trucks added
actually in the last few days not a
petering out of this uh this thing and
it's not just about the trucks you know
we we all talked about what this was
starting to be about which was about you
know cross-border a vaccine mandate uh
people have come from all over this
country look at this truck here this has
got everybody who's come and signed
their name put a uh you know put some
sort of a message on that and i'll tell
you they get a tremendous organization
look at this this is these are the gas
cans that people bring to try and help
uh folks maintain you know you've got to
have fuel if you've got to have a truck
i i was talking this fella here his name
is uh danic
then and he is a contractor you're you
build houses and all that sort of thing
yep exactly you came here you're not a
trucker but you came here to support
them why'd you do that well one of the
main reasons is for our kids and uh and
also for all the injustice that we've
been living for the past two years
you really feel like you don't have your
freedom here
with the mandates exactly yeah so i come
here and volunteer
and
give help and love to everybody it's
amazing you were picking up trash
earlier they've got a whole crew
digging that picks up trash uh security
yep you get food
like we i i was helping uh building that
platform today
walking around with me here because i
want to see that platform
actually constructing on the top of the
trucks maybe you can see it here degan
uh look at that that's a place where uh
people make speeches uh during the day
yeah i'm not sure exactly what they want
to do but uh but i think it's to get
some some people get an interview there
and uh anyway so
every time i have spare time i go help
i go serve coffee if i can or
anything i i will
do to help it is a pretty amazing spirit
out here you know i've been to a lot of
protests in my day dagen as you know
everything from uh you know
well all sides of the political spectrum
this one here tremendously well
organized a tremendous passion um
i don't see any violence or any kind of
criminal activity certainly there's a
over in every crowd there's maybe
somebody who gets out of hand but uh
they're just very firm in their beliefs
and they say they're not going anywhere
one thing jeff you've covered uh the
auto industry for so many years and you
know it well but there because of the
ambassador bridge is basic is locked up
which connects canada to detroit or
windsor
ontario to detroit in essence that some
of the auto manufacturers have been
forced to curb
production scale back production because
they can't get supplies
from across the border in canada so and
a judge
a judge is expecting
there's a they're trying to clear the
convoy there um at the bridge but i
think a canadian judge delayed the bid
by the border city of windsor to do that
i would i would make two points on that
number one yes tremendously important
because
they found this study which found that
one auto part could go back across the
border eight times before it's actually
you know put into a vehicle because of
the way those communities are so uh you
know connected and second of all uh if
they're gonna tow those trucks out of
there good luck to them because you need
major big wreckers to get these trucks
and that's not going to come easy right
the records are the guys that usually do
the business with the trucks right they
don't want to be in the midst of this
mess
we'll see how it goes thank you jeff
always for such terrific reporting jeff
flock live in ottawa for us