Early on chilly Saturday morning, a group of about 15 big rigs and another 20 or so other vehicles met at the Giant Tiger in Shawville to take part in the truck protests taking place in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n
CHIP 101.9 spoke with one of the organizers of the local group, Ralph Lang, as they were preparing to depart. Lang is a local cash-cropper who also operates a grain elevator in Clarendon as well as a fleet of trucks. He said that the protests weren\u2019t about vaccine mandates for truckers, but against public health restrictions more broadly, from masks to indoor sports restrictions.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, the mainstream media seems to talk about the vaccine passport or the vaccines at the border but that\u2019s not what it\u2019s all about. It\u2019s all about all the mandates,\u201d he said. \u201cThe masks, the kids in school, the mental health, the hockey rinks, these kids have to get back to exercise not masking all the time. They are not at risk. The 90-year-olds are at risk, I guess, and the 80-year-olds, but, normally, they die. It\u2019s sad to say but we all are gonna die someday, but we need to end all this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n