CBC says convoy was worst display of nazism

[jazz]

You know you should learn to temper your hateful rhetoric tweety. Using slurs is unbecoming unless you want some right back. Show respect.

[tweety]

You know you should learn to temper your hateful rhetoric tweety. Using slurs is unbecoming unless you want some right back. Show respect.

What slur is that?

[furrowtickler]

As usual you are wrong. 60% Punjabis at least.

So every picture should be more then half Punjabi - yet. Pretty much angry white people.

Source of that 60% ??
There are a lot but just curious

[chuckChuck]

Story in the Globe and Mail said 20% of truckers are south Asians and they didn't feel represented by the convoy.

It was a mostly white angry con protest

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-almost-one-in-five-canadian-truckers-is-south-asian-but-many-dont-see/

Almost one in five Canadian truckers is South Asian, but many don’t see themselves represented in the trucker convoy
Uday Rana

When the freedom convoy was rolling into Canada’s capital this week, Arshdeep Singh Kang was more than 4,440 kilometres away in Los Angeles making a delivery.

The 30-year-old long-haul trucker followed the news of the convoy on his phone during rest stops, but he certainly had no desire to be part of it.

“I don’t believe in the issues they are raising,” Mr. Kang said. “I know there are some South Asian people who support this convoy, but I couldn’t see any of my people in the videos of the convoy.”

According to the 2016 census, South Asians comprise 18 per cent of all Canadian truckers. In major cities such as Vancouver and Toronto, they make up more than half the industry’s work force.

And yet many drivers such as Mr. Kang have no stake in the protest in Ottawa, even though its supporters have dubbed it a “truckers’ movement.”

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Jagroop Singh, the president of the Ontario Aggregate Trucking Association, said, “Nobody invited me or any South Asian truckers I know. In fact, we don’t even know who the organizers of this protest are. Nobody asked us if we agree with their demands.”

The convoy may have started as a protest against vaccine mandates, which some truckers say threaten their livelihoods, but it has now embraced several issues. It has drawn support from far-right and extremist groups, with one vlogger even saying he hoped it would become “Canada’s Jan. 6” – a reference to the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last year by a mob of Donald Trump supporters and right-wing groups. Many Ottawa residents and journalists have reported seeing Confederate flags in the convoy.

Mr. Kang, a 30-year-old long-haul trucker has no desire to be part of the freedom convoy.Handout

Mr. Kang is a resident of Brampton, Ont., which is considered the heart of the trucking industry in the Greater Toronto Area. As of 2019, Brampton and surrounding Peel Region were home to approximately 2,000 trucking companies. But the convoy’s stand against vaccine mandates will find few supporters in the region, where 90 per cent of residents are double vaccinated as of Wednesday, and about 40 per cent have received booster shots.

Manan Gupta, the publisher of Road Today magazine, which caters to the South Asian trucking community in Canada, said “not only is there no anti-vaccine sentiment among South Asian truckers, but there is also an acute need to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible. Immigrant families in places like Brampton and Mississauga live in multigenerational families. A South Asian trucker doesn’t want to catch COVID, only to come back and infect the grandparents.”

Mr. Singh added, “I understand that mandates can be frustrating, but everyone should get vaccinated to protect their loved ones. We’ve encouraged all our members to get their shots as soon as possible. We’re even getting our kids vaccinated now.”

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Ravish Garg, who regularly drives a Toronto-Chicago route, said, “I was hesitant at first, but I believe the experts. After getting my shots, I can drive carefree.”

Many of the freedom convoy’s supporters say they are not opposed to vaccines but to mandates. But Mr. Garg said opposing Ottawa’s rules won’t help. “Canada isn’t the only country in the world that has mandates. If you want to drive long-haul, you will have to enter the United States. And you can’t fight America’s vaccine mandate. It’s easier for everyone if we all just get the shot.”

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Mr. Kang says the convoy may simply prove to be a distraction from some of the more systemic issues plaguing the trucking community. “They don’t stand for the issues that they should be standing for. Ask any trucker who drives through Western Canada or Northern Ontario how dangerous those roads are. There are hardly any rest stops. When you do find a place, there’s no parking,” he said.

Mr. Gupta said, “Northern Ontario has single-lane highways for trucks. Drivers have been demanding the twinning of highways for a very long time.”

While most South Asian drivers may not be taking part in the convoy, Brampton truckers are no strangers to protests. Mr. Kang was among the many agitating for better working conditions and fair wages last year. “Wage theft is a major issue across the trucking industry, not just in Brampton,” he said. “There are employers who don’t pay their drivers. These are the real issues we should all be uniting over, not vaccine mandates.”

Mr. Singh said trucking is an industry in crisis. “Inflation is hitting us hard. Drivers are quitting every day. Trucking companies are folding every day. The cost of trucking is increasing every day, but truckers are still expected to work at rates they were paid back in the 1980s. Trucking is becoming a tough business.

“If only we came together for the issues that are putting us out of business.”

[tweety]

Source of that 60% ??
There are a lot but just curious

Put this in google and read.

punjabis trucking industry canada

Let me guess Jazz thinks saying Punjabi is a racial slur....

[shtferbrains]

If it was actually a truckers strike, why are they all white?

Convoy started in Surrey.

All along the way trucks came and went.

I saw south Asians in the shots along the route but not surprised they dont spend days sitting in Ottawa.
The attraction they have for trucking is they can work lots of hours.
That doesn't mean they don't support getting rid of the restrictions.

[furrowtickler]

Put this in google and read.

punjabis trucking industry canada

Let me guess Jazz thinks saying Punjabi is a racial slur....

Sorry that should should be Chuck thinks that racial slur

[tweety]

Convoy started in Surrey.

All along the way trucks came and went.

I saw south Asians in the shots along the route but not surprised they dont spend days sitting in Ottawa.
The attraction they have for trucking is they can work lots of hours.
That doesn't mean they don't support getting rid of the restrictions.

The turban is a beacon for those who stand up for rights based in the Sikh religion. It stands for fairness, uplifting people, protecting and defending human rights.

What better place then the protest to demonstrate that?

[furrowtickler]

The turban is a beacon for those who stand up for rights based in the Sikh religion. It stands for fairness, uplifting people, protecting and defending human rights.

What better place then the protest to demonstrate that?

Tell that to the NDP leader

[tweety]

Tell that to the NDP leader

Came you blame him? They came in there with guns blazing wanting to throw out the Prime Minister with signs and flags of hatred disrespecting our nations landmarks.

That was their voice. And they lost the people they needed most.

Still don't get it hey?

[tweety]

Though the CTA warned of the potential supply chain impact of the mandate, it has also vowed to work with the government of Canada, recently issuing a joint statement with the Canadian government saying that both parties “agree that vaccination, used in combination with preventative public health measures, is the most effective tool to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for Canadians, and to protect public health.”

So here's a question. Why didn't they have the support of their own Canadian Trucking Alliance? These people are the link to parliament. They know the people. They lobby all the time.

[shtferbrains]

The turban is a beacon for those who stand up for rights based in the Sikh religion. It stands for fairness, uplifting people, protecting and defending human rights.

What better place then the protest to demonstrate that?

Ask some of them next time your visiting.
I would be a bigot if I expected them to all answer the same.

[furrowtickler]

Came you blame him? They came in there with guns blazing wanting to throw out the Prime Minister with signs and flags of hatred disrespecting our nations landmarks.

That was their voice. And they lost the people they needed most.

Still don't get it hey?

Guns a blazing .. LOL , you should work for CNN

[jazz]

Most of the non minority truckers are involved in oil grain fertilizer hay livestock cement log mining transport. All the city trucks tow trucks boomers gravel construction are predominately white peoplekind. The Sikh community rarely truck in those sector.

There are probably thousands of farmers who run a super b.

Your 60% is pure cbc fiction. It’s more like 30%.

[furrowtickler]