Thread by @susanvhthompson

Here’s the perspective on the convoy from Chris from Alberta’s Whistlestop Cafe. He wants basic support like food for the protestors he says have been “abandoned” on the parkway and is asking people email him to volunteer to coordinate logistics. #littlelate

I don’t have the patience to sit through these two talking but here he is meeting with my MLA Todd Loewen.

Here’s Chris asking people to donate to Adopt a Trucker and offer their homes up so protestors can sleep, eat and shower.

It would be a real shame if the Redditors who’ve been trolling the convoy’s Zello threads volunteered to help him with this “monumental task” using this email and subject line.

Another tidbit: he says #FluTrucksClan protestors were stopped at the Quebec border and walked across the bridge so they’ll need help too. (Also maybe a bit of a Freudian slip there between pressing/depressing.) People tell him to talk to Pat King.

Chris says people will need to decide what to do if cops ask them to leave. The choices? Comply & leave, or hunker down and stay. But listen to the cops though.

The most adorable part of the video comes when he asks if protestors can lay off the horns between 7 pm and 7 am and not vandalize any statues and such because it’ll give people the “wrong impression.” I’m sure his appeals to being decent will work now.

He says it’s a “logistical nightmare” to get food and fuel. Too bad no one actually rented a shuttlebus with all that fundraised $$. I am just gobsmacked at the idea he wants 100s of volunteers to show up NOW via email & care for people’s basic needs.

Oh and he wants to borrow a 2 way radio now because he hasn’t been able to find one on the way. “Trucker” convoy eh. And again, the planning here is just 👏👏👏.