This has already been debunked as bullshiat It is amusing that the hotels in Ottawa are complaining about the lack of bookings caused by the "freedom trucker" protest. A false claim about the government and hotels https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/fact-check-canadian-convoy-protest-ottawa/index.html Rupa Subramanya, who has more than 128,000 Twitter followers and writes columns for the National Post, a conservative Canadian newspaper, tweeted on Sunday: "I've heard from so many today that some Ottawa hotels have been instructed by the city/feds not to give out rooms to the protestors. The Marriott downtown apparently is empty but evidently all the rooms booked. Someone should really investigate if this is true." Facts First: Regardless of what Subramanya may have been told, the claims she amplified were not true. The employees who took CNN's calls at the downtown Marriott and five other Ottawa hotels on Monday said their establishments had not been given any anti-protester instruction by any government; Patrick Champagne, press secretary to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, told CNN that the claim "is categorically false"; Alexander Cohen, spokesperson for Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, called the claim "ludicrous" and said that "no one from the federal government has done that"; Steve Bell, president of the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association, said that "to my knowledge there is no truth to this rumour." As for the Marriott in particular, it had rooms available at the time of Subramanya's tweet on Sunday evening and again on Monday evening. When CNN told Subramanya that the claims in her tweet seemed to be false, she said she was glad we had looked into the matter. She insisted she had herself made "no claim" and had merely issued a "call for help" for journalists to look into what she had been hearing from protesters, since "frankly I've been working round the clock talking to people on the ground and so I haven't had the time or the opportunity to vet this claim." The "mainstream Canadian media should be fact checking these and debunking them if they're false," Subramanya said, though she herself writes for a national Canadian newspaper.
You mean the 90% who are vaccinated and working, the company drivers (who can't participate) taking loads cross border without restriction and without whining?
That +90% are doing their job by crossing the borders at other areas even if it takes them hours away from the blockades. They're also getting paid overtime pay that's usually 50% to 100% more than their normal pay. Thus, if you're a trucker that's not protesting...you'll probably be encouraging the ones that are protesting to "keep protesting"...more money in the pockets of those not protesting. One guy being interviewed said he had to drive 4 hours out of his way to cross the border because of the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge. He didn't mind because he was making a lot more money due to overtime pay than he had not planned. wrbtrader
Depends. Some of them are paid %, which links them to rates (especially independent contractors). I don't see the other side of the conversation, so I'm just clarifying on this one point.
What I'd like to know is how many of these owner operators, the only drivers performing in this circus, have taken a hit on their commercial driver license as a result of spot checks by DOT. Sure, they were going to get dinged eventually, but it's handy having them in one place and already parked.
I'd be just as curious understanding how they're making their truck payments when they aren't on the road.
Lifting and restoring mandates has been one of the clearest demonstrations of cause and effect you could ask for, here in Alberta. Every time Kenney has lifted them, two to three weeks later the hospital and ICUs are full, and every time he's restored them the hospitals start clearing out. Now this time, in advance of a possible fifth wave, may hopefully be different, with some 88% of Albertans over 12 with two doses in 'em.