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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Johanna Chisholm

Convoy trucker left homeless after giving life savings away to protests, ‘regrets’ involvement

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A man who occupied the streets of downtown Ottawa in Canada’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” now finds himself filled with regret after giving all his life savings to the anti-vaccine mandate protests that kicked up last January.

Martin Joseph Anglehart told CTV News Ottawa that, while he didn’t necessarily agree with the motives behind most protesters – he told the outlet he “never had a stance” on vaccine mandates or lockdown policies – he did find a sense of belonging among the truckers who ground the nation’s capital into a honking halt.

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