COVID-19: Quebec health system remains ‘fragile,’ says public health director Bernard “Rambo” Gauthier, a well-known union leader from Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, posted a video to Facebook on Thursday morning, stating he was departing with about 50 vehicles toward the provincial capital and promising to stay there.“We’re doing this for the next generation — our kids — but also for ourselves,” Gauthier said in the video. “I’m tired of not being able to see my friends, go out for a beer with my friends, go out to the restaurant with my girlfriend — a normal life.
It’s been two years we’ve been like this.” Quebec truckers join up with convoy en route to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates It’s unclear how many people will descend on the provincial capital.
More convoys are expected to arrive in Quebec City from other parts of the province for the hastily organized event, while others were planning to go to Ottawa in support of the demonstrators who have been in that city for almost one week.Downtown Ottawa streets were still clogged with trucks of all sizes Thursday and the steady drone of honking vehicles could be heard near Parliament Hill.
An organizer of the Ottawa protest told reporters that demonstrators would stay there until the government ends “all (COVID-19) mandates and restrictions on our freedoms.”Quebec provincial police promised a heavy presence at the legislature.