As the convoy rolled into Ottawa on Friday afternoon, Pierre Poilievre stood on a highway overpass to film a promotional video.
Speaking directly to the camera, with trucks honking behind him, Poilievre proposed an expansive view of the convoy that went well beyond its nominal goal of protesting the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.
The protest, Poilievre said, “was not just for truckers, but for the 60 per cent of Canadians who say they worry they can’t afford food.” It was for “the 60-year-old small businessman who has spent his entire adult life building up an enterprise and watching it wiped
