‘Just sickening’: Backlash after Terry Fox statue ‘appropriated’ at Ottawa trucker rally
@ottawacity @JimWatsonOttawa https://t.co/Souo0BodaJ— Brad West (@BradWestPoCo) January 29, 2022Photos from the rally showed the statue holding an upside-down Canadian flag, along with a sign that reads “mandate freedom.”Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said he had instructed city staff to remove the items, but within an hour new photos appeared on social media showing the statue holding a new protest sign.Fox, a cancer patient and amputee, was born in Winnipeg, but raised in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
The 22-year-old became a national icon with his 1980 attempt to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Big rigs, passenger vehicles snarl downtown Ottawa as trucker convoy parks by Parliament Fox lost his battle to cancer in 1981 before he could complete his cross-country journey, but became a national inspiration.
Millions of dollars have since been raised in his name for cancer research.“No one should ever try and take the feelings Canadians have about Terry Fox and use them for their own political purposes,” West said, adding that Fox was a unifier who should be above politics.“It’s disgusting, it’s wrong and it’s also not going to work.
I think this has backfired tremendously on whoever thought that was a good idea.terry fox sacrificed everything for people with cancer.
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