You're listening to Comedy Central. Three weeks ago, north of the border, a new kind of protest emerged. The trucker convoy has arrived in Ottawa. This city, in the downtown corps, remains gridlocked. Some residents here say that they really can take no more. So I traveled to Ottawa expecting to find some Canada nice but their messaging was a bit more coarse. These trucks shut down businesses and made roads impassable. Can I go? I go around here? How do I?
How do I get around? But? How long were the protesters planning to paralyze Canada's cape best city? David? How long you been here? I've been here since day one, holding down the fort pretty much. I'm not going anywhere. I'm coming in from New York. I go by Brooklyn's kindness on the same baby, you're able to stay here up to two years. You're you're committed to be being here for two years? Because two years is nothing? Are you gonna keep up the energy to be here for
two problem? People stimulants, the people bring it. I smuggle on a weed. Yeah okay, right, yeah, but that's just to calm me down, to keep me, keep me centered. Are you ordering it all with weed paranoia that might creep in? No? No, do you think the government is coming for you? Oh? Yeah, costly there are do you you like night a little tactics? They try to look, they move around, they move in, they add more. Look kind
of stuff do you haul? I haul everything? In two thousand twenty, I haled from food to building supplies to medical supply. You have my end table that I ordered from Wayfair like three weeks ago. Is probably a city either in Montreal or Toronto orders it would really like grant in my apartment? So what exactly was the point of interrupting the supply chain? So what is this all about? You know what? I'm sorry? What is this all a boot? This is about our freedoms? Can you be any more generic?
You know, if you are vaccinated, you get to do certain things. If you're not vaccinated, you don't. I don't think people should be divided. We should all be together united. We're setting up essentially a truck barrier to keep everybody together so they can be united. Yes, god, yeah, we might as well lock them in. It's sort of like a parent who locks the door and says, you guys are in here until the water runs out, you become friends or democracy crumpas. Yes, And if you're not vaccinated,
you're literally a second class citizen in this country. I can't go to the restaurant, I can't go play hockey, I can't go watch the Ottawa Senators. We don't live in Germany. We don't live a Nazi Germany. Those days are over. To show me your papers don't happen anymore. That's a freedom that every should happen. Is the Germany comparison a stretch here in Canada? Are you afraid of cultural appropriation? Probably American cultural appropriation because we use the
German excuse all the time. Oddly enough, that wasn't the only thing Canadians were appropriating. Yeah, I hate to use that slogan, but meg, north America great again? To meet North America great again? And I don't mean to you who's that guy's word? But it's true, To be honest, it wasn't even his. He's told from another guy before Heaven. I see the Q army on your head? Is it que? The American thing trying to find JFK Jr? Yes? What qu ship is going down here? Us? No que is
amara us. Oh so this isn't like a Yankees hat exactly. Okay, the que thing might just be a fashion choice, but they're definitely reading the same Internet as many Americans. And it's laura than just a keen past part. What else? The attend to thirty is a good steridy? What's agenda? The world's tend towards? Joan government? You want to sterilize? I said only certain people can have kid drilling. You're afraid the government will sterilize you? Probably not me, but
down the line. Yeah, but in two weeks of the cab of the truck psiting a mountain duke, can camp be too good for the sperm production? Probably? Ny? So what to do? So Margaret Atwood? Audio books are apparently a thing with Canadian truckers, and while shutting down a city seems to have many obvious downsides. Hey okay, great, Hey hi, Yeah, and you've seen a prius around here,
sub scene, an opportunity coming from liberal gridlock. The truckers are bringing in customers, are bringing in tourists from Montreal, from all across Canada. Everybody wants to check this out. It's essentially a tourist right now, you can feel the tourism in the air, right. You can smell and it smells like amphetamines and uh drift or blood. The flood of eighteen wheeler driving tourists and their Canadian A f outfits created legitimate tension with residents of the city knowing
what you here. The downtown was shut and there was palpable anger directed at local media. There's still lying guys, and even at the day A show getting food over here, We've been walking around here. Uh, there seems to be
a real distrust of media here. Well, for sure, it's a lot of cameras up in your face, cameras on cameras and while Canadian authorities have finally enacted emergency measures to try to clear the convoy, so far the trucks are still there, and a well funded, never ending street party infused with misinformation and nationalism feels remarkably possible in our own land of the free. Where does this movement and go from here? I believe it's going to be worldwide.
It's gonna come to America. Yes, definitely think this is inspiring the dick heads of America. Part of me, this is inspiring the dick head to America. It's inspiring ful of America to join together to stand for freedom. Okay, if they do come to America, then maybe I'll finally get my end table. The Daily Show with Trevor noa ears edition. Subscribe to The Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast