It was a long time ago when my son was learning to talk. He talked earlier than many little boys. He talked loudly. Yet he did not start with Momma or Dadda. He started with “truck.” He was fascinated with toy trucks and real trucks. The only problem was that he made the “TR” at the start of the word sound more like an “F.”
Of course, it was daddy who got blamed. It seems you are not allowed to comment about a stubbed toe when going into his room to quiet the little urchin in the middle of the night. The wife was convinced that I taught him how to mispronounce “truck.” I got some very dark looks from her when we had the car windows open, were stuck in traffic and he was safely belted into his toddler seat, loudly proclaiming about just seeing his version of truck.
Luckily, it was just a phase he went through and his pronunciation improved as he grew older. It also helped when we got our daughter, she liked dolls.
But here it is almost 50 years later and we are watching those truckers in Ottawa. I was thinking maybe the boy was right.
Luckily none of the truckers I know would want to be seen anywhere near those blowhards in Ottawa.
It is quite difficult to estimate the numbers with a moving mass of people such as we saw on the streets in Ottawa on the weekend. I was guessing 10,000 and higher based on the arial shots down Wellington. And the Ottawa police were also using that estimate. That is a lot of cranky Canadians.
But bear in mind, while the conservatives were quietly working the crowd, the major presence was the Peoples’ Party of Canada. I think Maxime Bernier was there but I did not confirm the sighting. When you consider that Bernier’s party collected 830,000 votes in the 2019 election, that was not an overly impressive showing. And when you count the big rigs that came, it was less impressive. Most of those yahoos came by camper, pickup or family car.
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