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an update from ottawa police at 3:30 p.m. local time. before matt thanks. eric: harold is one of the truckers protesting amid the crackdown in ottawa. he joins us now by skype. i want to thank you for joining us. i understand you are at the protest earlier today. you ve been taking part. what made you decide to join the protest in the first place? because of the sadness and suffering that has been experienced throughout the world for the past two years. covid has been tough on society. but in truth has been depressed, hidden from the world when it comes to the vaccination, the lockdowns and negative effects of those things. we need to have an honest discussion about that. it is time to move on. it s time to open up the country, we need to move on from the covid restrictions and they
carley: bring in one of the truckers involved with the protest. harold, your first-hand account of what happened, was it necessary for police to bring in riot gear and semiautomatic weapons? we have pictures that you sent in. while you are talking about this, i want to take a look at those. was this overkill with what the police did? oh, it was huge overkill and very disturbing what the government of canada has done to us citizens. we are peaceful for 3-1/2 weeks and yet he treated us like we were terrorists and dangerous to society. it took me extra 10 minutes just to get into my hotel last night coming from outside the city and right now it is harder for the
united states. harold jonker, thank you for joining us. carley: turn to the fox weather forecast. hey, adam? good morning, going to get warm over the next couple days, that does not mean it is not winter. upper tier of the country, really cold air is funnel nothing, canadian arctic air and snow is falling from minneapolis, top third of the country, we re seeing rounds of winter weather today and next couple days. we have a lot of winter weather advisories stretching back to wisconsin, where heavy snow is going to fall. just west of denver, there is heavy snow. how much snow? pink areas are getting well over a foot of new accumulation here in the next couple days.
from my family, as well. some have been gone for a month, they came from the far side. we re regrouping, the leadership, some were arrested, we re waiting to see what they decide to do. it is time for the rest of the canadians to stand up, continue to support us and coming here to protest, it has been very tiring, we re still trying to figure out what to do exactly. ashley: harold, when you ring and knowing you have been a part of this and looking at the videos playing on the screen, do you think this will wake up canada as a whole and see how they have treated and how the leadership has treated you guys whenever you are trying, really to put food on your table and support your families? this is what it boils down to,