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28 Jan: Daily Mail: American truckers join Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesting vaccine mandate as rigs stretch for 45 MILES: Trudeau plays it down and calls protesters a ‘small fringe minority’
A convoy of truckers in Canada protesting vaccine mandates for truck drivers crossing the US Canadian border is 45 miles long and descending on Ottawa
With 50,000 truckers driving from Vancouver, the ‘Freedom Convoy 2022’ is demanding that their government abolish vaccine passports
On January 15, proof of vaccination will be required for truckers crossing into the US - but as many as 32,000, or about 20 percent, are not vaccinated
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the huge group a ‘small fringe minority’
‘We know the way through this is to get everyone vaccinated. The overwhelming majority, close to 90 percent of Canadians, have done exactly that,’ he said
By CHRISTINA COULTER
‘It’s 70 kilometers long,’ Benjamin Dichter, a spokesman for the Freedom Convoy 2022, told the Toronto Sun, referring to the convoy after it passed Calgary heading west on Wednesday.
‘I have seen footage from an airplane. It’s impressive.’...
The longest convoy in history was just five miles long, consisted of 480 trucks, and took place in Egypt in 2020, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Toronto Sun estimated that up to 50,000 trucks could be participating - which would exceed the existing record by 10 times if it stays intact until its intended destination...

Elon Musk even praised the protesters, tweeting on Thursday that ‘Canadian truckers rule.’
Musk stated in September of 2020 that he and his family would not be getting vaccinated because they are not at risk, and said he most likely had a mild case of the virus in November...

The U.S. also has a vaccine mandate for truckers coming from Canada. American talk show host Stew Peters said that American truckers are joining the Freedom Convoy, or amassing on the roads in solidarity, in numbers.
‘Colorado, 420 trucks, Georgia, 675 trucks, South Carolina, 650 trucks, California, 19,000 trucks,’ Peters said.

A GoFundMe initiative has already raised $6,365,040 towards the protest since it was launched on January 14, with organizers saying that the money will go toward the gas, food and shelter of the participating truckers.
But GoFundMe has frozen the raised monies until Tamara Lich, the secretary of Canada’s Maverick party and the fundraiser’s organizer, provides a ‘clear plan’ for how the money will be spent, according to Canadian outlet Global News.

Hutterites have shown out in numbers not just greet the truckers with signs as they drive by, but to keep them fed, Mackenzie said.
‘Some drove all the way to Ontario to feed the convoy,’ he said...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10449587/American-truckers-join-Canadas-Freedom-Convoy-protesting-vax-mandate-rigs-stretch-45-MILES.html

it’s reached a point where FakeNewsMSM can’t ignore it, so now Snopes is amongst top “news” stories spinning the story, and using other FakeNewsMSM to do it:

27 Jan: Snopes: Did 50,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Trucks Set Guinness World Record?
The vast majority of truck drivers in Canada are vaccinated.
by Dan Evon
Rating: False

As of this writing, the freedom convoy has not earned a place in the Guinness World Records book. Furthermore, the claim that this convoy involved 50,000 trucks appears to be a gross exaggeration that goes against all available evidence.
The largest truck convoy on record was set in November 2020 in Cairo, Egypt. That convoy involved 480 trucks and stretched 7.5 km (4.6 miles)...

This Guinness World Records entry provides a data point that makes us skeptical of the 50,000 truck claim. If a 500 truck convoy stretched 7.5 km, a 50,000 truck convoy would stretch 750 km (about 460 miles). We have seen no evidence to support the idea that the freedom convoy is anywhere near 460 miles long.
So just how many trucks participated in this freedom convoy?

No Official Count...

Likely Hundreds, Not Thousands.
Many Canadian news outlets have used the word “hundreds” to quantify the number of trucks in this convoy. The CBC, for example, reported: “Hundreds of truckers set off from British Columbia to Ottawa on Sunday to protest a federal vaccine mandate despite the urging of the country’s largest trucking federation to comply.”

Adrian Ghobrial, a reporter for the Toronto news outlet City News, said that while thousands of people have come out to watch and support the truckers as they drive by, he was skeptical that the convoy consisted of more than 100 trucks...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/freedom-convoy-guinness/