Truckers For Pipelines

Calgary Herald;

Organizers of a truck convoy to Ottawa to pressure the federal government to fast-track pipeline construction say the effort is snowballing.
 
Proponents of pushing hundreds of trucks and other vehicles to Parliament Hill in February say a GoFundMe page and a recruitment effort are swelling the effect of the so-called Yellow Vest protest that’s expected to embark from Red Deer on Feb. 15.
 
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Several protest convoys of hundreds of vehicles have already trundled through Alberta venting anger over legal and political roadblocks facing the Trans Mountain and Energy East pipeline expansions.
 
Organizers of the Convoy to Ottawa effort say they’ll harness that momentum and emotion for the countrywide trek that is expected to end with a rally on Parliament Hill sometime between Feb. 19 and 23.

A “rally”? Fill the streets, park them and walk. Turn that city into a parking lot.

94 Replies to “Truckers For Pipelines”

  1. Nevermind the city. Turn Hwy 1 into a parking lot. Better yet, the 401 and any other major thoroughfares that our betters use to get to “work”. I would love to see a combine with a 16′ header (or wider) blocking traffic in downtown Ottawa.

      1. 24 Sussex Drive? Unoccupied. Jr. is at Stornaway. 24 Sussex is in terrible shape and is a health hazard.

        Getting around a blockage on Sussex is annoying, but easy.

        1. If I may, with all due respect, I do believe the place you mentioned, Stornaway is the leader of the Opposition’s residence.

          Since The Trudeaus refused to live at 24 Sussex, for the reasons you mentioned I do believe they now reside on the grounds of the Governor General in Rideau Hall, where Her Highness has two mansions.

          (Justy and Suffee ‘stole’ her cottage, smart cookies those two)

        2. Justin lives in Rideau Cottage. It has 22 rooms and is on the grounds of the governor general residence.

          1. Well, wherever the brat and his prize heifer live, park there.

            Imagine not being able to go to the hair stylist’s or getting their take-out food.

            Oh, the humanity!

          2. Don’t forget that he and Soapy might actually have to look after their brats themselves for a change as their nannies won’t be able to go shopping for them.

            Such a tragedy, eh?

  2. When you destroy an industry that is a requirement for survival (like oil) there is bound to be an uprising. This is just the beginning.

  3. Waste of fuel folks. The fact is that the Alberta and west in general, prosperity must be stopped. That is the order. Trudeau is doing what the globalists tell him to do. George Soros for example, but we all know that by now don’t we.

    The mass migration into the western world is happening because the globalists need to destroy the FREE western world that is standing in the way of the global gulag they have planned for the commoners.

    That is the most important issue of this century … whether or not the west has the balls to defend itself and stop the madness.

    1. I agree with that 1000%.

      Climate Change is only one part of the Globalist plan…it being designed to destroy Western Hemisphere Capitalism…they will tell you for the Asking..?? (Christina Figueres – Ottmar Edenhoffer). To be accoomplishd by instigating ENERGY POVERTY “for All”.

      Part two as jv so eloquenly stated is Population Replacement. Your newly created “Canadians”… assorted Sub Saharan & ME Islamic LowLife all working under the suprvision of the Muslim Brotherhood

      Justin is ALL-In on both of those agenda’s – 100%.

      If I could go, it would be armed one way or another….

      1. Agree 100%.

        That said, I’d look further up the food chain than George Soros were I looking at where to point the finger of blame as to who’s calling the shots.

        1. There are many up there in cloud-ville planning the new reality for us. Who actually needs 7 or 8 billion pointless humans who do little more than eat and shit. I know most are capable of much more, but enough already … how many lawyers and construction workers does the world need. Ask the Elites and the you will hear a very low number. After all … the world’s resources are finite … they have their jelly donut secured. The wall is approaching and we are speeding.

      2. You and jv nail it. What they are planning makes Stalin’s war on the Kulak look like chicken feed.

        To paraphrase Pol Pot’s throat slitters, it is for the good of the ‘people’.

  4. Need a trek coming from New Brunswick at the same time showing their support for the Energy East pipeline and the need to refine Canadian crude, rather than unethical crude from the Saudi’s. Have them both arrive at the same time.

  5. Running to the gov’t to fix it…how’s that been working?

    Jer 17:5  Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 

  6. Well, is Husky offering free fuel? Any of the oil companies?

    If the people who say they want pipelines won’t go as far as Butts and Horgan to get them… do they really want pipelines?

    If you are not truly willing to go all in on “by any means necessary”… you may have already committed to losing.

    1. The big oil companies despise grassroots movements from oil workers. Their idea of supporting oil is to contract out to one ad agency, to make one touchy-feely tv commercial, and to run that ad over and over until everybody gets sick of it.

  7. The problem with this protest is it will undoubtedly peter out well before the election.If the streets of Ottawa were clogged in September, six weeks before the election, some Eastern Canadians might wake up to the damage this sob is doing to this country.

    Have to agree with “jv” at 10:17

  8. The quickest and surest way to an independent Alberta is to inflame the quebec separatist movement and convince them to break up Canada.
    Once that card falls….

    1. I’d like Alberta to opt out of dairy supply management. Hopefully it will piss off enough Quebecers that they leave.

  9. David Climehaga Alberta unionista and blogger wants to know who is financing the Truckers for Pipelines? Ha ha
    The left know you can’t have a protest without somebody paying for it.

    Is it Soros…….? Maybe the Hunt bros? I heard Tides have some money in this.

  10. Good luck but PM Pantsonfire cares not one iota. He only cares about K-Bec. That’s it. He will bleed the west, suffocate the east, stroke Ontario and build up K-Bec power all the more. Canadians who vote for Liberals and their neo-Marxists policies are proud to do so. There are millions of them. They don’t care one iota either and when they tell you they do their lying, and laughing once you leave the room.
    Far better to blockade rail lines and highways and Turn Off The F**king Gas!

  11. I agree with the final comments. Take things to Ottawa. Park trucks in the streets. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable, as the left says.

  12. The protest being brought to Ottawa may help, anything may help, mailing a turd or thousands of turds to Trudeau may help.

    Block all the railways through Alberta. Revolving crews of protestors blocking all traffic through all railways.
    Not “some” … and not for a couple of days. Not until there’s a meeting of cabinet and Premiers to discuss the issue, they’ll ask the blockade to be taken down, and they will lie, it needs to stay until final approvals are in place. Until they fold, and they will fold.
    They’ll fold when they lose access to the B.C. coast.

    Highways too? Probably. More people standing in front of the railways and highways, than there are jail cells to hold them in.

    All. Until the pipelines are approved in both directions. Or until “Old Canada” demands the west separates, in which case a trade agreement that starts with, pipeline access to both coasts in return for rail access through Alberta – Saskatchewan and to both coasts…

    It won’t take long, their appetite for cheap Chinese goods is insatiable.

    and even Quebec buys their crap from China…

    1. I can’t disagree with your sentiment, marc.

      Tit for tat would be blocking rail access across Alberta from the Sask to BC borders. It does not need to be strictly human barriers either, a public cat and mouse game of dropping hundreds of obstacles on the entire length of tracks, especially the more isolated sections, would shut them down completely.

      If that doesn’t seriously make the rest of Canada wake up, then blockade trucking too. Lets see the snowflakes cave when their Amazon packages stop arriving(you know, those beloved packages that could NEVER conveniently get to a greentard’s front door without the burning of lots of fossil fuels).

      It is well past time for western conservatives to FIGHT BACK against these f*cking unrelenting attacks from Eastern progressives and socialists. We must start acknowledging this as the civil war it already is.

      1. CO, and YOUR socialist government. I find it comical when you guys wank off about “easterners”, all the while, NDPee rule newfberta, saskabush has only been out of the NDPee woods for a short while, as had Manitoba, and BC has been a lefty shittehole for 40 years or more,

        1. Ha, relax NME, I was mainly targeting the Ottawa power clique.

          But, having lived a good portion of my life in the Vancouver area, I also have had to endure similar ‘guys wanking off’ about the sorry politics here (you know, like you just hypocritically did). So, because of that, I do try not to do what you just thought I did try to do but you did instead…. or something like that.

          At least with Ford at the helm you can now enjoy some positive change, even if only temporary. I am painfully aware that here in BC, we haven’t even been able to muster a functional Conservative Party in well over a decade. So, please don’t bitch and moan at me if you ASSUME that, as a westerner, I must be talking down to you.

  13. Wrong place, wrong time for the truck protest. Take it to MONTREAL, St Catherine St, on St Jean Baptiste long weekend (late June). Quebec considers that a more important holiday than Canada (Dominion) Day.

    1. July 1 is moving day in Montreal. They loathe Canada Day like they loathe people who speak English like they loathe paying their fare share.

  14. The motto for the protest convoy should be ” Yes to Canadian Energy, No to the Carbon Tax”. Despite regional animosity and petty jealously, I think the majority of Canadians will agree with that motto.

    As for the gofundme accounts, I think there’s two organizations – yellow vests and rally4resources. Might want to consider which one, or both, to donate to.

    A blockade-style protest sends an effective message. It could also piss off potential supporters and interfere with police, fire trucks and ambulances. If and where to put a blockade, for how long and a procedure to allow for emergency transport would need to be carefully considered. If the trucker’s convoy haul ATCO trailers to parliament then the protest could be there for as long as necessary.

    Remember: the media and “experts” will overwhelmingly side with the Liberal Party and against blue-collar workers/families from western Canada so expect biased, ugly, one-sided coverage.

    1. It would be funny if convoy organizers printed up protest signs that said:

      Front:
      Yes to Canadian Energy
      No to the Carbon Tax

      Back:
      Hey media, it doesn’t matter what the other side of the sign says – you’ll call us stupid, alt-right, knuckledragging, anti-science climate denier Nazis.

      1. LC, I agree on the front sign

        back sign:
        Liz May wants $200/tonne Carbon tax
        we say NO NO NO

        1. There’s multiple phrases to mock and poke fun at the media, politicians and eco-activists. The key is making it sarcastic and biting.

          1. I love to poke fun also, but I suspect most Canadians don’t know the Greens want a 400% increase in the carbon tax.

  15. I agree. Block off all major entry points by road and rail into urban Ottawa. That includes the bridges to Quebec.

    See to it the roadblocks are armed.

    Nothing gets in or out till Gerald Butts agrees to end all federal taxes on fuel and replace the revenue with a tariff on Chinese imports.

    Yes, I live here. I needed to go on a diet anyway—and I doubt the siege will last long.

  16. If you really want to get their attention you have to play the separatist card.See how fast they change their tune when equalization payments slow to a trickle and interprovincial transport all of a sudden grinds to a halt.

  17. The front man for the Liberals we call Prime Minister will be conveniently on personal leave when this is taking place.
    We will see Ralphie the Human Bobblehead and Climate Barbie out mumbling gibberish which should be shouted down.

  18. They’re never going to let a convoy get into the city of Ottawa. Hell, they might stop the trucks before they get to the Ontario border. The only way I see it happening, would be individual trucks will have to be coordinated, in a plan to arrive on the streets of Ottawa in sync, in the same hour. Trucks, seemingly unrelated, coming from all directions, suddenly all show up on the streets at the same time. Then other trucks keep coming to stop tow trucks from aiding the police in clearing the streets and blocking traffic.

    1. My thoughts exactly, Carl. Ralph Goodale will say that the convoy is a threat to public safety, and prevent the convoy from ever making it past Saskatchewan. I would also expect the feds to threaten the drivers of the vehicles with hefty fines should they go against the governments will.

      1. They might but it would be difficult to explain the hypocrisy of Ottawa allowing blockades of energy projects or Ontario and the feds letting the Caledonia blockade to go on for weeks (months?).
        FYI: Once again, it would be orders that specifically target western Canadian protesters and their supporters. Historically, it would join Ottawa using the police to crack down on western Canadian workers like the On To Ottawa attack on relief camp workers in Regina, the Black Tuesday attack on striking coal miners in Estevan and the Bloody Saturday attack in the Winnepeg general strike. I doubt if the RCMP would be as violent now because it’s 2019 not 1919.

    2. “They’re never going to let a convoy get into the city of Ottawa. ”

      Of course they will. There’s no way to stop it. There are more routes into Ottawa than you can count.

  19. sort of futile,as Eastern Canada does not care.
    However this is a necessary step ,Western Canadians have to see how little care the east has for them.
    So I will donate and enjoy the show.
    Could have 70% support for an independent Alberta by march.
    Depends how badly the feds respond.

    1. “However this is a necessary step, Western Canadians have to see how little care the east has for them.”

      You may have something there. We know where most of the media stands.

  20. Too bad tomatoes won’t be in season. Could use a few up on the hill for this protest.

    I have to admit, I’ll book a day to drive to Ottawa and park in the middle of a bridge to Gatineau to show my support for our Western bretheren.

  21. Trucks should also drive into Montreal and blockade the peeps from going and watching the Canadiens play ‘Ockey!

    That will rile the Frenchies more than anything. “You want attention; you can’t handle the attention!!!”

  22. “A “rally”? Fill the streets, park them and walk. Turn that city into a parking lot. ”

    Effin right. Plug the cities up tighter than a spinster on cheese and rice.

  23. It will do no good to shut down Ottawa. Who would notice?

    If you really want to send a message to the millennials, interrupt the shipments of quinoa, avocado, and Pabst.

  24. Going after City of Ottawa ain’t going to get you anything worthwhile, especially during late February. Ottawa is a big name for a small self-important little space. Truck blockades work when industry is brought to a stand still, not when politicians and bureaucrats have a slightly difficult time getting to the office, if they are even in town. Late February sucks in Ottawa, no one will be bothered by instructions to stay home for a day or two, especially government workers. I don’t intend to be in town myself.

    By the way, half a dozen or so trucks strategically placed would shut downtown Ottawa. Whack! the downtown core, and the major trucking link to western Quebec, is screwed. A 417 crawl during rush hours would be slightly more annoying than usual.

    Want to get noticed? Do what the Indigenous did and shut down manufacturing and shipping. The 401! Someone mentioned the railways? Along the 401 is the major link for Ontario to Quebec and points east and west.

    February? PFFFT! A couple of news cycles and gone. September leading into the election a little better. Though multiple events all through the summer will get a lot of notice!

    1. Grumps, I disagree about February. It is a start.
      I fully agree with you on “multiple events all through the summer will get a lot of notice!”

      Love to see lots of convoys driving slowly down the 401. Stop every 10 km for a “safety check”. Walk around the vehicles then start moving again.

      1. joe, the Sicks (Sikhs) already half block the 401, with their great driving skills, and they get help from those twuckers with queerbeck license plates:-)))

  25. Forget ottawa. Just draw a line roughly North/South at Lake of the Woods and nothing moves past that. Especially money.

    1. If you really want a high impact blockade then target the most affluent neighborhoods in central Canada. Inconveniencing the political and chattering class VIPs will get the media’s attention, without annoying the middle class and working class commuters. Occupy Cabbage Town, Occupy Rosedale, etc. /s

      How about blockade Greenpeace, Tides or other environmental activist offices?

      1. LC Bennett, those groups would just use it to fund raise more money, to disrupt more pipeline hearings and to aid the Turd in the fall election. Those groups are good at using facebook, twitter and gofundme.

        1. Maybe but I don’t think Canadians would be fond of them if they knew the whole story behind the agenda to landlock western Canadian resorces or how it only benefits foreign oil producers. Some type of protest against those organizations would create the perfect time to get that info out in the open.

  26. I spoke at a pro pipeline rally at the BC Legislature in Victoria in May and what stood out was how the media down-played the event by giving equal time to a handful of paid employees of green hysteria corporations funded by US interests. Wouldn’t it be interesting to change the focus and theme from protesting the Spawn’s government to the Spawn’s personal media. Instead of Parliament Hill why not shut down Torstar, G&M, CBC, CTV, Global, etc. It could go lightly against the Sun and NP (Rebel, exempt and given all interviews), allowing only them to report. As the messaging from the institutional left peters out to nothing, the message to their customers, the drones that vote watermelon in all its various parties, that the irritation would be experienced by those most antithetical to the cause. This would save fuel as trucks could be utilized in all provinces rather than just the long trek East.

  27. The quickest way to get attention is to shut off ALL natural gas and oil transmission pipelines to Central Canada. Make sure the weather forecast is for cold weather and leave them shut off for a week. Then go in and clean up what’s left of the place and start over.

  28. They should be protesting in BC more than in Ottawa, that is where the actual opposition to the pipeline is centered.

    However, a lot of Alberta licence plates in a traffic jam in Vancouver would be regarded as a normal day on the roads.

    I don’t much like JT but our constitution is rather murky about how to resolve disputes between provinces. The federal government is on record as supporting the pipeline, perhaps many doubt the sincerity or intensity of that statement, but as a legal question, we can only go by the record, not by what we believe is really going on in somebody’s head. The record clearly shows that the BC government is the only impediment to the pipeline, and then it gets into the even more murky area of how much power native bands (“first nations”) should have since this law is being made more or less ad hoc as we go forward. There is almost nothing in the constitution to define what role, if any, these so-called first nations can play in creating or enforcing laws or public policy.

    We sort of backed into this mess by allowing BC to create an entirely new and apparently unconstitutional legal framework which assumes that first nations are actually sovereign nations. This concept has not really been fully understood across the country where in most cases it has not been a similar legal evolution. In BC, the prevailing political “wisdom” is that you go to the first nations, get their take on legislation, and make sure that your legislation matches that, so in other words, municipalities (I think that is at best how the first nations could be described in traditional law) get to direct provincial lawmaking. Even Vancouver, Surrey or Kelowna do not have that sort of power in Victoria.

    And this power was given out simply as a virtue signalling exercise, almost as much by Liberals as the current government of BC.

    This is where the trucks need to go, but the locations are scattered across a wide expanse of BC, my guess is that if they came to Victoria, the premier would suggest they go to the first nations and complain to them, since they are actually setting government policy in this province. Getting that genie back into the bottle will be quite a challenge for some future BC government that might come to realize that there was a reason why we all didn’t just become natives when we arrived in Canada. Even thinking about it is probably worth a big old lawsuit, stating it in public? Priceless.

    We will be paying the price for virtue signalling for many years in Canada. Just so that some smug mandarin types can inflate their self-esteem a little past the breaking point, we are more or less dismantling the economy one piece at a time. Those mandarins will of course be the last to realize it, as their inflated salaries allow them to keep the heat on longest.

    1. Turdeau could have declared the pipeline in the national interest. At that point the court cases are over. BC greens will still object. Then Alberta could impose a $4/litre tax on all oil to BC – call it an effective carbon tax for green BC. Add a $1/litre surcharge to pay for spill clean up.

    2. You might want to enlist the support of the pro oil & gas tribes in BC, the ones not accepting that the Federal Government spoke for them in cancelling Gateway, blocking tanker traffic and dictating policy on pipelines. Not all the tribes are on the eco side and there are probably plenty willing to support Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as NE BC oil and gas interests. It benefits them as well. Eagle Spirit.

      1. I wonder if Scheer has even reached out to any of those native bands, that are looking to see pipelines, jobs and development in their areas, for their younger people?
        Supposedly there is a pathway to the Pacific ocean(maybe not the most convenient route) , of willing bands. But of course the State Funded media, won’t give those in favor of pipelines, any print or air time.

    3. So Chief Big Screen fancies his tribe to be sovereign? All right. Declare war on him and start using live ammunition on his braves till the last one is dead or Chief Big Screen thinks better of making trouble for white men.

      When globalists think it expedient to polish off good, decent people considered a threat to their rule, they move fast. Sauce for the goose. Ridding British Columbia of its Indians ought to be an easy weekend’s work.

    4. As mush as I’d enjoy watching BC’s current government drown in the turd infested waters of Victoria, the issue of FNs is still a federal responsibility and one completely screwed-up by the SCOC. If it weren’t for FNs, due to the SCOC, a federal government “that wanted to build the pipeline” could do so with a few simple legal gestures.

      While I was involved in treaty negotiations representing local government (sitting with provincial negotiators), I noticed the dynamic of the federal negotiators who were essentially grinning at the way BC was voluntarily offloading federal responsibilities by naively taking the lead in offering up provincial Crown land in what was entirely federal jurisdiction where the feds would have had to come to the province ultimately with cash to obtain. BC’s second NDP government intentionally lost the appeal of BC Supreme Court Chief Justice Allan McEachern as his ruling would have settled what is now almost unsolvable.

      Because Canada has no constitution to speak of, and apartheid has been allowed to fester for almost two hundred years, FNs are now masters of playing the fuzzy legalism game with limp wristed, white-guilt infected politicians and bureaucrats and worst of all, do-gooder and conflicted lawyers creating infinite work for themselves, the apex of which is the SCOC. We are now at a stage where the Minister of Justice is the daughter of a radical and very nasty professional Indian, under, of all people, the Spawn.

    5. NO peter, it’s the federal government that is the problem,. If as you say, go to BC, or first nations, then you are handing them power they do not have. We need to make those who hold the power act, and that is the federal government. I’m say that using the separation option is the best way to go, and that is federal, and other provinces will be dragging in. Easing the pain in the ass is not an assperin solution as you propose!!

    6. keep in mind the Nisga Agreement was a federal “diktat” imposed upon BC and Canadians in general. A blue print for the fracturing of BC and the West in general. A scattering of “nations” will be far easier for the Family Compact to control than a cohesive large province with a rapidly growing population. Our constitutions amending formula was designed to keep Upper & Lower Canada in charge of the Dominion. The growth in population out west is challenging the math in the formula and has the Liberals freaking out. Gotta break it up somehow. BC and Alberta have more in common that many seem to realize. Keep in mind the “anti oil” protests are organized and funded largely by American interests. Like the Tides foundation. Funded in great part by the Rockafella’s, and many other eastern big oil interests.

      1. “American” interests indeed. The people paying Chief Big Screen to protest are loyal only to Satan.

  29. I still think that any pipeline ought to end in a refinery, and NOT at some tidewater spigot where tankers bound for China can be filled up. Selling those evil cocksuckers a strategic resource is a BAD idea.

    1. Joe the Albertan – the potential response to this to this convoy may well indicate to Western Canada how are position in Canada is viewed . I am thinking the convoy is unlikely to allowed to roll in wherever they wish unmolested. The potential for it to get ugly is significant.

  30. a parking lot?
    the TURDoo is well on the way to turning the entire friggin country (except the entitled) into a parking lot with those projected costs of fuel.

  31. Hull Quebec is just a bridge away from Ottawa. Teach the Quebecers a lesson and park your truck convoy on a busy street, lock the doors and leave them there.

  32. Mat_12:25  And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

    For the globalists, it’s a feature, not a bug.

    “The synthetic solution to these conflicts can’t be introduced unless those being manipulated take a side that will advance the pre-determined agenda.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  33. I bet you that this campaign has taken a jump in donations since Kate posted this. Her readers put their money where their mouth is. Every little bit helps. These truckers are giving up valuable time to steamroll a message to these politically correct, manipulative , incompetent corruptocrats in Ottawa. President Trump has given many of the courage to speak out before it is too late. He is taking on these same people only 50 times more powerful than our soy boy pm at a great cost financially ,psychologically and possibly physically to himself and his family.

    I hope Mr. Scheer has the kind of courage and intestinal fortitude it will take to meet these evil globalist forces head on.

    I think these truckers caravan is a monumental event that has the potential to wake up a large sector of the Canadian population that is unaware of the pure evil that is being perpetrated while they are lost in their smart phones.

    I urge every to donate what little they can spare and share this and encourage everyone in sphere of influence to do likewise. Do it for children and your grandchildren or anyone you care about.

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