‘Our Freedoms Have Gone’: Trucker Protesting Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Speaks Out

Trucker Bill Dykema, from Ontario, was one of the first protesters to park his rig in the center of Ottawa, Canada, in an undated photo. Richard Moore/The Epoch Times

OTTAWA, Canada—Walking on Feb. 11 through the parking lot of trucks that has paralyzed the center of Canada’s capital Ottawa the main word you hear uttered is “freedom.”

It is not only spoken but regularly features on signs, flags, and messages that not only adorn the rigs, but are placed along the fleur-de-lis topped metal fence that edges the parliamentary and governmental precinct.