I live just outside the city of ottawa and can say first hand that you watch too much CBC. Did you even get boots on the ground during that time? Doubt it based on your post.
His comment was "I WAS THERE!" then his subsequent comments were all things that he heard had happened to someone who knew someone who heard something from someone, so I just ignored it.
I wasn't there, but I watched easily hundreds of hours of on the ground footage after we saw the convoy off that left BC. His account is absolute rubbish. People were there beacuse of trudeau, PERIOD. Nobody wanted to be in a woke town like ottawa, in the freezing cold, trying to get a cowardly unfit PM to just talk to them. They didn't want to get beaten and trampled and slandered. They wanted to be home or working. They did it for the rest of us, and "oh so sorry" that Ottawa happens to be the city that the coward 'socks mcgovern' happens to be (perhaps they don't even know where the parliament of Canada is?). Just not worthy of getting worked up about buddy who wants everyone to pound sand.
I look forward to the farmer's protest of 2023.