Canadian farmers and activists are launching convoy protests across the country on July 23 to stand in solidarity with Dutch farmers who have been protesting against their government’s climate change policy since June.
Protests are set to take place simultaneously in several provinces, including Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, several social media posts show.
The protests are decentralized and organized by locals in each province. The planned demonstrations have received much feedback, and will likely be “well-attended,” according to Mark Friesen, founder of the Forum for Canadian Sovereignty and a co-organizer of the event in Saskatchewan.
“We’re talking about the livelihoods of a predominant number of people in this province of Saskatchewan, [as well as] Alberta, Manitoba, and even in B.C. in the Lower Mainland. There’s a lot of farming there,” Friesen told The Epoch Times….