There's a lot of chaos and division in Canada right now. In this episode, it's back to the basics: having conversations.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Sarah Lawrynuik
Senior Producer
Cherise Seucharan
Reporter, CANADALAND
Tristan Capacchione
Audio Editor & Technical Producer
Kieran Oudshoorn
Managing Editor, Podcasts
Hosted by Jesse Brown
There’s a lot of chaos and division in Canada right now. Beyond the people who got arrested in Ottawa over the past few days, there are thousands more Canadians who have financially supported the Freedom Convoy or been rooting for them from afar.
In this episode, the CANADALAND team reaches out to regular everyday people who support the Convoy to ask about who they are, how they ended up supporting the Convoy and what they think about the racist and dangerous aspects of the movement.
This is not a scientific survey, we did not do a poll. These three people are not necessarily representative of everybody else who supports this movement, but we’ve got to start somewhere.
“ It's not the time to turn your back and say, these are the wrong kind, these are not Canadians, or these are not our kind of people, or these are misinformed people.” -David Cayley
“This idea of ‘gamblification,’ they're actually tracing features found in casino games that are being reproduced in games for little children.” - Sarah Grimes, professor in communication studies and the Wolf Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill
We don't seem to question, at least not in the public discourse, what it means that the same investment firm is enmeshed with so many of our media companies. -Gemma Boothroyd
