As a self-declared “Freedom Convoy” of truckers opposed to a federal vaccine mandate makes its way through the Toronto area en route to Parliament, the president of one trucking organization says the convoy’s original message has been hijacked by far-right or extreme rhetoric.
“We’re seeing signs calling our government communists and Nazis and comparing [the mandate] to the Holocaust. And if you’re comparing this to the Holocaust, you need to educate yourself,” Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning.
What began as a group of truckers against the cross-border trucking mandate has amassed the support of groups broadly opposed
