Truckers Felt Obligation to Stay in Ottawa Due to Popular Support, Needed Graceful Exit: Lawyer Keith Wilson
A lawyer who was on the ground in Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy to represent the main organizers and who was involved in negotiations with authorities says that truckers never intended to stay that long but did so due to popular support.
“This is a very important point, and I don’t know that it’s come out yet, is a lot of people who were there, the truckers, never planned to stay that long,” attorney Keith Wilson told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Wednesday.
“But the Canadians they met along the way, and the stories and the heartache that they heard, and the trust and plea that they heard from those people, many of the truckers I talked to felt this obligation to stay as long as they could.”…