“And if you think we should be in school instead, then we
suggest you take our place in the streets, or better yet, join us, so we
can speed up the process,” she said to loud cheers from the crowd.
suggest you take our place in the streets, or better yet, join us, so we
can speed up the process,” she said to loud cheers from the crowd.
As for the counter-protesting truckers, they came in about
30 vehicles, mostly pickup trucks, honked their horns and revved their
engines while passersby ignored them.
If there were two people in each truck, no certainty, they
were outnumbered by climate protesters approximately 200 to one. And,
anyway, their protest was no different from a normal driving day in
Edmonton when the truck-nuts crowd comes to town.