| > I don't know: as I understood it, the trucker thing was basically about showing that they occupy a strategic position in the Canadian economy. And yet various organizations that represent truckers, both organized unions and independents, distanced themselves from the convoy: * https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/embarrassment-for-the-industry... * https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-trucking-... * https://teamster.org/2022/02/teamsters-denounce-freedom-conv... If the convoy was anything but a bunch of anti-vaxxers, they failed to really convey that message from my perspective. > And that was a lot of the rhetoric from the truckers about themselves: I guess we'd just come out of the pandemic with all these sudden realizations about essential workers […] I have first-hand knowledge of essential workers because of family connections to nursing and retail (food/groceries). I also have family connections to people who actually run trucking companies, and do maintenance on rigs. I personally got deemed an essential worker by my company because of my IT role, and got a letter on company letterhead stating as such for any time I had to come into the office, in case I should perhaps be stopped for breaking curfew (the organization I was with had connections with medical treatment). I don't think anyone would reasonably deny truckers are often essential, but the number of truckers making a fuss about was a tiny majority that worked in the industry. |