A Canadian Reporter Gets More Than He Bargained for After Trying to Bait a Trucker in Ottawa – Opinion

National attention has been paid to the Freedom Convoy protests that took place in Ottawa, Canada and in other areas of Canada. RedState reports that this culminated on Tuesday in an important win after Alberta declared it would no longer mandate vaccines. Other provinces have now followed Alberta’s lead.

The Canadian government continues to harass truckers as well as others participating in peaceful protests. The Ottawa Police attempted to freeze out the convoy by removing all propane and fuel. This led to a lot of people coming up with gas cans in an effort to replenish the supplies.

A threat was also made to the children at the protest, where the government threatened to take them away under the pretext that they might be in danger. A CBC reporter tried to bait one trucker by reading the statement from the Children’s Aid Society but ended up getting a lot more than he bargained for.

The reporter ran then to Twitter to share the video and try to portray the victim.

Here’s a small sampling of the experience it is to cover Ottawa as a journalist right now. pic.twitter.com/UsvypVXM92

— Joseph Tunney (@TunneyTun) February 9, 2022

What you are seeing there is righteous anger at a government that is out of control and at a lackey “journalist” who can do nothing but try to smear working-class individuals for exercising their rights. Tunney, who is happy to do his bit for the state-controlled propaganda of CBC, is nothing but a spokesman for that fact. That’s the first point of hostility here, and it’s not the fault of the truckers.

The second point of hostility is bringing up someone’s children in an attempt to lodge a veiled threat to get them to comply. Even in trying to push a partisan narrative as a reporter, there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed. One was crossed here when the reporter brought up the possibility of the government taking the trucker’s children on what would obviously be a manufactured pretense. That’s true tyranny, and it’s not a topic to try to get provocative with.

The father replied as any other father would, minus some word choices. You don’t mess around with someone’s kids, and while Tunney doesn’t appear to have any himself, he should respect the boundaries of parents while doing his job. Canada’s experience is changing the perception of many people around the globe. Western governments are often seen as bastions for freedom and individual liberties. The COVID-19 Pandemic exposed many of their true colors. People are awake now, and they aren’t going to sit back and continue to take it. The Freedom Convoy is a microcosm of a far larger movement, and it’s one these petty statists aren’t going to like.