engaged personally? he has been directly involved in creating the conditions that would make this an absolute disaster for the economy if it happened. president biden thanks to his american rescue plan has unleashed already record inflation and record supply chain crisis. this would create a massive supply chain crisis on top of that. it would require 467,000 trucks to make up for the lost rail capacity. the problem is that truck capacity doesn t exist because of the biden s inflation and the supply chain crisis. thanks to biden we have the worst labor shortage in american history. 10 million unfilled jobs in this country. the trucking industry is short 80,000 long haul truckers right now. so if you throw on top of that the requirement for another half a million trucks every day out there, they can t meet that capacity. so what that means is the capacity is not going to get filled. it will mean that prices will go up. if you wonder why your grocery
what do you make of this? yeah. like you, i was uncertain at first. i have a lot of friends and colleagues in canada who write to me about the work that i do. usually with the writing about is they re concerned about their friends in the south. they re concerned about the united states. these last couple of weeks have been the first time i ve had contains writing to me and say, you as an american need to speak out about what is happening in ottawa. i think that they are right. what is concerning about this is, if you have already said, we re talking about a minority of a minority of minority. there are 15,000 long haul truckers and canada, maybe 10% of them are directly affected. that is 1500 people. the thing that they are protesting against is not canadian at all. they are protesting american law.
is, if you have already said, we re talking about a minority of a minority of minority. there are 15,000 long haul truckers and canada, maybe 10% of them are directly affected. that is 1500 people. the thing that they are protesting against is not canadian at all. they are protesting american law. it s an american law that they have been vaccinated. protests in ottawa makes zero sense. it is a very small group with a nonsensical claim, which nevertheless has begun to spiral, which threatens both the institutions of canadian democracy, as we see in the capital of ottawa. and also, the canadian economy, as we ve seen in the border crossings. when i m worried about here is that we re seeing a model where a very small number of human beings, using tools like trucks, funded from another country, as you ve already reported, and fanned by courage by conspiracy theorist on social media, can
i m not even sure as a canadian that i knew what to make of this or thought it would be much but it is turning into something that s got tentacles and connections around the world with these anti-government protests, and gaining some connective tissue to bigger and sort of more insidious protests that we re seeing. what do you make of this? yes, i mean like you, i was a little bit uncertain at first, i have a lot of friends and colleagues in canada who write to me about the work that i do, and usually what they re writing about is their concern about their friends in the south, they re concerned about the united states. these last couple of weeks is the first time i ve had a lot of canadians writing to me saying hey, you as an american, need to speak out about what is happening in ottawa. and i think they re right. i think what is concerning about this is, as you ve already said, we re talking about a minority of a minority of a minority, i mean there s about 15,000 long haul trucker