ENFIELD: Throngs of supporters lined the parking lot at the Big Stop/Enfield Tim’s and Hwy 2 to the Exit 7 ramp to Hwy 102 as the Freedom Convoy 2022 departed headed for Ottawa to voice their displeasure over the COVID-19 mandates.
There were about a couple hundred people on the overpass at Hwy 214 in Elmsdale, according to East Hants RCMP S/Sgt. Cory Bushell, waiting to wave on the convoy.
At the Irving Big Stop, organizers made it known to the crowd of approximately one hundred-plus that they were not anti-vaccine, but pro-freedom and that is what the Convoy was all about.
PHOTOS from the Convoy in Enfield, taken by Pat Healey.
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The federal government ended the truckers’ exemption to the vaccine mandate on Jan. 15. This means Canadian truck drivers need to be fully vaccinated if they want to avoid a two-week quarantine and pre-arrival molecular test for COVID-19 before crossing into Canada.
Truckers from Enfield were to be met in Moncton by those from N.B. and PEI, before continuing to Ottawa. There were around a dozen trucks that left Enfield.
Many signs in the crowd had sayings such as “We love Truckers” “Go Get Our Freedom Back.” There was one sign that was made like a transport truck and three young kids held it saying, “Free Dom”.
The Convoy was to arrive in Aulac by 9 a.m. Participants were to stay in the right lane on Hwy 102 with their four-way flashers on.
