The majority of the drivers I work with every day are Sikh. They support the convoy. All of them want to work and raise their families in a better situation than they had in India. All of us want that, regardless of what country we originated in.
Here is a video of a truck driver who came to Ottowa to participate in the convoy. He has been covering the event, and this is his latest update of the evening when the first wave of trucks arrived to the capital. I recommend watching the whole video, but you can watch from this point, where you can see a Sikh trucker.
I also recommend watching this testimonial of a person who went to support a passing convoy. I think it demonstates pretty well what it means to people. Yes, we all know that there is very little chance that things will change and they will win. We also know that great efforts will be made and are already in progress to manipulate, subvert and spoil the protest. So it's not about the outcome. But it seems to me that it is about the human spirit.
This person in the video smiles entire video and says that he hasn't been so happy for awhile. That he can't stop smiling. Corona craziness made everyone so depressed, and now they have an opportunity to feel happy. We know how things operate in this world, and it's very possible that their hopes will be crushed, but I still think that it is a powerful message to the Universe, and this is also very important. Let's hope that it will make a difference on some level, because this excitement and hope is being felt even thousand kilometers away.
And I also wanted to give another example of what kind of presstitute RT has become. While on their English site they do have some articles about the convoy, and they probably do cover it on TV, though I don't know to what extend. After all, their foreign viewers do want this kind of content.
But there are zero articles about the convoy on the Russian RT site. There is only
one about the truckers, where they basically retell what is written on the mainstream media, with the slant that this protest will cause big problems to the economy.
Sure, Russian audience may be more interested in other things, but the fact is that Simonyan for inside Russian audience is always sharing her rabid pro-vax position, and so it seems that for Russian audience they behave exactly like the rest of the mainstream media. Zero coverage, and if there is coverage, they are blaming the truckers for the upcoming economic problems.
Other Russian media sources do mention the convoy and the protest.