Canada Freedom Convoy press conference address

Canada Freedom Convoy spokesman Tom Marazzo has addressed a press conference Monday night local time.

Faith Reporters has the script of Marazzo's address at the press conference:

Tom Marazzo (middle) addressing the press on Monday night in Ottawa

Good evening from around the world and around Ontario and around Canada.

Thanks for tuning in tonight.

The title of this broadcast for many of you logging in tonight may be called a pre-emptive SOS.

As you have seen on some of the social media influencers out there, there have been a lot of rumours going around about very increased police presence commencing this week.

Although we have confirmation they’re not here yet, to our knowledge, we believe, given a number of different sources that have telling us that there will be a very increased police presence in Ottawa, we believe it’s a credible enough issue that we wanted to do this broadcast.

And well, it’s not time for alarm, it is time to, if you want to support us, if you really want to help out, what I’d like you to do is start thinking about coming to Ottawa.

I don’t want you to get in your car tonight; I don’t want you to start packing tonight but I want you to start preparing your families or talking to your employers and saying, I really feel that my place is in Ottawa this week.

I can’t give you a timeline and I can’t promise you that once you get here it will have been absolutely necessary. But we have concerns that a large number of police will be here and they are setting up a processing centre…

We want to make sure that we’re prepared.

If this starts to happen, we will be absolutely peaceful. This will not be confrontational.

We’re cautiously optimistic that it’s not going to happen but if it does, we’re prepared; we’re confident, and I don’t mean that that’s a threat of any kind, I just said that we’re really not fazed by it.

If you look at what happened in Calgary today, what I would call an absently disgraceful action by Calgary police today, which is something typical that we have seen throughout this pandemic from not the particular police department. But here in Ottawa, we have our own set of problems.

We’ve been told that one of the triggers or indicators where we know that they are going to physically move against us and start arresting us is when our media goes down; when all of our telecommunication’s devices do go down, when we go fully blocked, the next phase of this will be the public units will move in on us and start kettling.

If you think back to 2010 in the city of Toronto during the G20 summit and think back to the fiasco that transpired at that event, we really don’t want to see that happen again. But from our perspective, we do believe that there is a real possibility that arrangements are being made to that effect.

We will not resist; we will not be violent.

This is a peaceful protest that the more of us there are, the better it is for all of us.

What’s that one point in history that is going to make you move out of your culture and come here and get involved? This is it.

If there some media blackout of everybody that you hear connected to this Freedom convoy that’s a trigger that you know that something is up and I really encourage you to make arrangements and merely start heading to Ottawa.

We have strength in numbers; we have a team of lawyers that are here to help.

We’re not fazed by this, we’re not intimidated, we’re just forward-thinking people because we believe we’re going to be here for a long time.

Some of you might be aware that there was an emergence meeting in the house of commons this evening, with Justin Trudeau himself, alluded to discussions about large numbers of RCMP officers [Canada's federal police force] that they are engaging.

We do not get the impression that they are working toward sitting down at a table, which is what we asked for today.

We asked to sit at a table and find a peaceful solution to this, a responsible, balanced, safe solution to this.

And so far, I’m really disappointed to hear there’s been no response from the city of Ottawa other than a cowardly tweet from the mayor, passing the book to the Prime minister.

Political theatre!

I’m here with all these people behind me and all of you viewing from home, expecting leadership from the people that we sent to this city.

When, in Canada’s history, has it ever been good for us, as a nation, when we have used force against a large population of our public?

When?

Never, never!

Instead of talking, we have a room booked twelve o’clock, tomorrow, on me, with Justin Trudeau and myself, twelve o’clock tomorrow, and the other delegates of this convoy.

I’ll meet with him; I’m prepared; we’re prepared – all of us. Our scientists are prepared. They’re dying to get into a room and talk to him.

And when I looked at his comments tonight, the Prime Minister of Canada’s comments, forgive my frustrations but he seems to be a one-trick pony.

You know, we want actual, tangible results. but to sit here and to insult Canadians consistently, every day — he used the word ‘swastika’ against his own Canadian citizens and his constant message is, ‘the only way out of this is through a vaccine’ that nobody wants.

Nobody wants this vaccine because they want to be protected from a virus. They’re getting inoculated against unemployment.

We’re here to talk. Let’s find a peaceful resolution to this. I want to go home. I want to go home. But I’m not going until I’m no longer needed here.

And, based on all the support that we have from the people of Canada, I have an incredible amount of support and a lot of people that seem to want me here and I’m not going home until the job is done.

I’m not calling for violence, I’m not expecting you to get in your vehicle drive here and create problems, create crimes. That’s now what we’re saying.

Strength in numbers – we got sent here to send a message; the message isn’t getting through. He is not getting it and I apologize if I’m bashing the guy but honestly, from my assessment, he has got a twenty-two-calibre mind in a three fifty-seven world.

Let’s get at a table, for God’s sake. Enough hiding!

I'm willing to sit at a table with the Conservatives and the NDP and the Bloc, as a coalition. I'll sit with the governor general. Put us at a table with somebody that actually cares about Canada.

And he talked about an election today that Canada voted for vaccines, I’m sorry there’s no vaccine on any ballot that I saw. Nobody in this movement voted for vaccines to be forcibly coursed into their bodies – that’s insanity.

I’ll talk to any level of government that can actually get a decision done because we can see clearly the Liberals don’t want to talk to us.

We want to talk to them, they are the official government in Canada but can you just come and meet us at a table, please.

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