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By Curtis Galbraith

Protest

Slow Roll Freedom Convoy to go through Grande Prairie Saturday

Jan 28, 2022 | 6:00 AM

A similar protest to the truckers convoy one planned in Ottawa Saturday will take place in Grande Prairie the same day.

It is called the Slow Roll Freedom Convoy.

Elliot McDavid, one of the organizers, says it will start at the west side Petro Canada at 11:30 a.m. and head for 116 Street.

“We’re going to go to the Costco lights, from the Costco south to 68th (Avenue), 68th east to 100 Street and then all the way across 100 Street to (the) Ernie’s Sports, Barton’s corner,” he explained.

“(We) then go back up around the college (GPRC) and hang a right at the Staples to head back to the card lock.”

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He adds people are coming from all over the Peace Country.

“Bigger than we can imagine, I think. There are people coming from Fairview, Rycroft, Grimshaw. They are coming from Grande Cache. There are trucks coming out of Beaverlodge, Hythe. There are trucks coming from every direction, all four directions.”

He hopes the general public recognizes that the group is not only standing up for its own rights.

“We don’t do this because we got nothing to do. We do this because we want what is best for everybody,” McDavid stated. “Whether you’re vaccinated, unvaccinated, it doesn’t matter. We are all family in the end. We have just got to unite and get together.”

McDavid says the convoy is about people standing up for freedoms that he believes have been slowly taken away over the last few years.