Unity Convoy still going to Winnipeg | Western Standard - Linda Slobodian:
January 3, 2023 - "Start packing those bouncy castles and barbeques, horns will still be honking in Winnipeg, February 17-21. World Unity Convoy 2023 is still on. 'The Winnipeg convoy is still proceeding,' participant Ron Clark told the Western Standard.
"Confusion stemmed from a recent press release issued by Team Canada Unity’s James Bauder. He said the Freedom Convoy 2023 reunion was cancelled due to 'several security breaches.' 'Convoy organizer says plans to stage a 2023 protest in Winnipeg are off,' read one media headline, No, they aren’t. Only plans for a February 17-20 Ottawa reunion were cancelled....
"'Let’s make that very clear. The convoy 2.0 is cancelled. But the World Unity Convoy 2023 is still proceeding as planned,' said Clark on Facebook. 'James Bauder’s statement stated that he had a security breach amongst his team on Canada Unity and he is stepping back for security reasons. And so, James Bauder is stepping back. That's it'....
"Bauder told the Western Standard his team will not be Winnipeg-bound. 'No, we won’t. As far as the group goes, the James Bauder Canada Unity Foundation, which is the architect behind the Freedom Convoy, no'.... But members representing about 400 groups will be in Winnipeg or carrying out plans to peacefully assemble at events across Canada. Many won’t be travelling to Winnipeg because they’re still paying off debt accumulated when they went to Ottawa last February — to fight for all Canadians.
"In the meantime, expect every World Unity 2023 move to be dissected, mocked, and criticized, and twisted in the same way Freedom Convoy 2022 was. The problem is some within are giving critics ammo to level accusations about disunity and disorganization. Egos have got to be parked in neutral. Stop already with the power struggle and bickering about the Unity Convoy being held in the centre of Canada, not in Ottawa. It deflects attention from the convoy well into the planning stages. Speakers, including doctors, have been lined up, DJs booked, Winnipeg police consulted, and invites extended to everybody including politicians to speak to, and listen to, concerns of Canadians they’re paid to represent....
"So far, the Liberal government has gotten away with what it inflicted on Canadians during COVID-19. It hasn’t been held accountable. Not much hope is being placed in the report on the inquiry into whether the Trudeau government was justified in invoking the Emergencies (War Measures) Act....
"Yes, most of the mandates have been lifted, but the need to press forward is critical. The damage lingers.... Life hasn’t improved.... The assault on freedoms hasn’t stopped. Instead they press ahead with more clampdowns — Bill C-11, Bill C-18, Bill C-21. Unity Convoy is the fight for accountability and transparency, a show that Canadians won’t stand for what the Liberal government is dealing us.
"Hull-Alymer Liberal MP Greg Fergus said it best, according to a text revealed by Blacklock’s Reporter. Fergus, parliamentary secretary to Trudeau, said cabinet “pissed away our credibility” with the way it mishandled the COVID-19 crisis and the Freedom Convoy."
"World Unity Convoy 2023" with Serena Freedom Bear, Maverick News, January 3, 2023:
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