It has only just begun.
Effective today, all U.S. and Canadian cross-border truckers must show their vaccination passport in order to deliver their loads. Approximately 15% of Canadian truckers and approximately 50% of U.S. truckers are not vaccinated. The logistics and distribution of food supplies into and out of Canada are collapsing.
Pay attention to the scale of impact in this example. It will only take a few days for this to go from a problem to a full-blown crisis of epic proportions.
CALGARY – “For the product to be right there and not being able to touch it, we’ve never seen it before in the 12 years that we’ve been open,” he said. “The U.S. is full of product, and we just can’t get it up here.”
The produce warehouse in Northeast Calgary routinely received two or three trucks a day to restock their shelves. Now, when they are attempting to import 80 to 90 per cent of their stock from the U.S., they are lucky to get one truck every two or three days.
[…] This has led to shortages in staples their customers have been accustomed to relying on them for like grapes, strawberries and citrus. When they can get some of those items, the price has gone up exponentially. Grapes that used to be 99 cents a pound are now running $4.99 a pound.
With the trucks Freestone can secure, they are focusing on vegetable deliveries, and the cost of those trucks has also skyrocketed. The average truck out of California pre-pandemic cost Freestone $6,000 to 7,000, now it’s costing them $9,000 to 11,000.
[…] Nash said the backlog is already starting to accumulate at the border, estimating about 100 loads a day, noting the Coutts crossing handles about 800 loads a day. (read more)
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Thanks, Malcom.
I live in Maine and a world without Canadians might be🤔
only isssue is soft wood going down the turnpike. no way the US will cut enough to make up the difference
I’ve got a few hundred acres of good pine in AR that hasn’t been worth cutting for @ 10 years. Maybe soon. I might even give a discount as a middle finger to Trudope. Grow and buy USA!
I got 50 acres mature in syp thinned 15 years ago. For the first time, I’ve been getting offers in the mail from timber buyers. I have a portable bandsaw mill and cant keep up with folks wanting trees cut down and lumber left on the lot.
Please let me know what your set up is. I can be found on the open thread each day. I would really appreciate it.
I’m from E TX. Thanks!
me too.. why buy US grown wood products when they control the market with imports.. let them eat tortillas
Hollar at me on the open thread when you’re ready please. I’m in E TX.
Thanks!
Did you mean a few hundred acres of GOLD, that hasn’t been worth cutting.
Lots of pine in Arkansas and other Southern states. We’ll squeeze by. Long term it may change. But okay now.
don’t Mainer’s vote democrat?
The machines that count the votes do.
And – you have to go thru Canada to get to Alaska
just say’n
…and The North Pole!
I hope Santa Claus is vaccinated.
Not if you’re flying.
Actually, since the aircraft are controlled by Canadian ATC, then one ‘could’ say you would be….?
does Canada really control anything?
Crown Royal
Just the freedoms of its citizens….
By driving, yes. We get air cargo and barges from Seattle though. So we’ll see what the trucking mandate does to us AK residents. I imagine moose hunting season will be extra popular this year. We like having freezers full of meat.
i think it might be possible to get to Alaska by sea.
We just sent our son and daughter-in-law, who live in Alaska, 3 months’ supply of food, from My Patriot Supply. Our son is recuperating from Hernia Repair Surgery, and we do not want them to stress out about having enough to eat. Our Daughter-in-law is so brave and is doing immunotherapy after finishing Chemo. As a family, we stick together, come hell or high water. Wherever two or more of us is gathered in His Name.
FYI, when they say “three months,” it means one meal per day for one person. We all need three years of food and that likely won’t be enough.
It is 3 meal per day for one person I have several
You inspire. Thanks 🙏
I’m sure Sec. Alfred E. Buttgig is organizing an Alaskan Airlift as we speak. It’ll be bigger than the Berlin Airlift.
Who is paying for that? Us?
all the barge traffic from Seattle-Alaska would have a bit of an argument with you there
Australian here mate. Sorry to hear you and all are going through tough times. Wish you all the best outcomes .
We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
We have this. We own the night and we are fearless.
They have these things called boats and planes
I was not allowed to drive from Anchorage, Alaska through Canada in mid Sept 2021 during my move to Arizona without a vaccination or a 14-day mandatory quarantine. So I put my car on the ship to Tacoma, WA and flew out first class. The Canadian Gov’t has lost its mind for the past 24 months. The heck with Canada. I’ll never go back for a visit.
Color me simple, but wouldn’t they be a pretty hard bunch to stop if the truckers decided to just saddle up and go on through those gates?
Thanks Justice! I forgot about Convoy! Loved the theme and the music too.
Truckers ramming through the gates wouldn’t be of any use if there is not staffing at the delivery point to unload the trucks.
No it would still be impactful (literally) bc it would show Trudope and the fascists above and below him where God-given rights and power reside–in the people, especially when they’re driving loaded 18 wheelers!
Also, deliver the product and the necessary people will come to get it out to customers. Only scumbags are sanguine about starving their countrymen based on bs.
Brought to us by Carter and the 55mph speed limits. I remember this song, gas lines and Carter. The truckers are truly essential workers
I don’t wonder how long it will be before ‘they crash the gate’?
With time, Trudeau will either be begging for any and all truckers OR will declare victory and scrap the mandate.
You underestimate the arrogance of the vile little snot nosed punk. He hates us and his sole goal is to destroy our country.
It’s about to get very ugly up here.
Good luck to you Will, and GO FOR IT pal….
Yup, fully prepped here at home and headed to parliament hill to help feed some truckers woo-hoo!!! Bring it my dear leader sparkle socks and prepare yourself!
Via con Dios, be safe and keep us posted.
Please pass along our warmest regards and expressions of gratitude and support for them.
Today they call you tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. In a couple months they’ll be calling you a hoarder.
Yep, doubtful China can supply CA’s nutritional needs through the winter. They can’t handle their own without massive imports, including more than you can imagine from USA.
We had and still could have a strong hand in trade with China, but there are idiots in charge again.
Please see my reply to Some Old Guy’s post above.
It appears alarmingly clear that you’re right about sparkle pants, and doing what’s smart might be far from the top of his list of priorities.
Too bad Canada squelched the ability for people to own firearms to protect themselves from government tyranny
not hunting rifles.
We have a lot of firearms. A lot.
well, you all have hunting rifles, so get to it!
Wait for it … “FJT”
I’d like to think so, too.
The replacement pool of drivers seems very inadequate, though, and the conditions being created for them become more hazardous by the day, so a mandate scrap would be the smart thing to do. ( Hence my pessimism. )
One word: spike strips
Lolz.
Thaz 2.
Hoping rank and file LEO’S wouldn’t go there or to deadly force, but things are terribly messed up in CA.
I am afraid Canadian LEO’s are not on the people’s side. They have not “acted nicely,” so far, to peaceful protestors.
Well, then you have an imobilized big rig. Won the battle, not too sure about the war.
That kind of thing only happens in dopey movies like Smokey & The Bandit. They’d be super easy to stop if they rammed through the gates. Just block the highway a mile or so ahead. What’s a loaded 18-wheeler going to do? Go off-road? Sorry, no can do. The truckers would have a couple minutes of exhilaration and perceived freedom after running the gates; then they’d be stopped and arrested. The yee-hawing and horn-honking would stop as quickly as it began. Fines $$ – Truck impounded $$$- Likely loss of job $$$$ – Possible criminal prosecution $$$$$.
thanks Karen …
Nope, TDL, not a Karen. Just the voice of experience from 31 years and 2.2 million OTR miles … and a few hundred border crossings. And some clear thinking and common sense thrown in. So sorry if I’ve burst your little bubble.
Actually the best thing the truckers can do is just stop. Pull off the highway, go home and park them. All of north America would take notice within 24 hours.
That’s the ticket! The only real leverage is not moving food. And what all of this has taught me is that both Canada and the US have to amend their Constitutions to make it much easier ( and quicker) to remove people from public office who prove themselves to be “incapable” leaders.
The question would then be: Who gets to judge “incapable” leaders?
Invading a foreign country?
They’d be illegal aliens, shots and ID optional.
🤣. Truckers!!!! We know a few in here! Don’t mess with those people!!! Sweet drivers, but DO NOT MESS WITH THEM!!!!!
I-95 several years ago, between Georgia and South Carolina. Truckers all lined up strategically in the right lane. You could cut in, but they wouldn’t let you go anywhere! They wouldn’t let you get ahead of any cars in the left lane. So you got back in the lane, and stayed in your place!!! I said to my husband, “How the hell are they doing this???” Obviously they are talking to each other. Coordinated and beautiful!
So. Don’t mess with truckers!!!
Rah, care to comment?
I think you said it best:
“Don’t mess with those people!!! Sweet drivers, but DO NOT MESS WITH THEM!!!!!”
My Dad drove.
Uninjected Canadian truckers are allowed to go into the US but are then required by law to be quarantined for 2 weeks. So they’re not going.
It’s understandable.
And it appears very cynically and coldly calculated by their government.
That’s exactly what I have been thinking for days now!!!!
Will the end of the great movie V For Vendetta now happen in Canada? Or are there to many liberal Project Monarch brainwashed liberals there to stop it from happening?
Are the Covid Clot shots Halal?
One can only hope…
But if I had to guess, the ‘Halali’s’ are sitting back and waiting….
With the UK and other countries dropping all Fauci Bioweapon mandates, how long will the Canadians tolerate eyeballing their pets for the stewpot?
The vaccinated need to be protected from the unvaccinated, by forcing the unvaccinated to get the vaccine that doesn’t protect the vaccinated.
Had Covid last year. Recently sat next to person for two hours, indoors, who tested positive a couple of days later. Two hours face to face. Immune. Many “unvaxxed” have anti-Covid B-cells, C-cells, T-cells in bone marrow.
Trojan Horsemeat–“It’s What’s for Dinner(tm)!”
Word Salad New Food Source (thepeoplescube.com)
Food has been used as a weapon throughout history. But never before has an Occupation American Government tried to starve out the entire country before. We haven’t seen the Government use food as a weapon against Americans since Sherman’s March to the Sea and the Indian Wars.
And we’ve never had a criminal Occupation Government declare war on her citizens before.
Don Surber: NYT: “Nobody raises a hand” for Biden
Wrecking the economy and unleashing a crime wave are active and purposeful policies meant to usher in Acting President Obama’s utopian Communist Revolution, or Great Reset if you prefer.
These are not accidents, oversights, mistakes, misguided policy, stupidity, over-zealousness or ideological blindness.
This is a planned program of CRIME, SHORTAGE and IMPOVERISHMENT to destabilize America for the Radiant Future they have planned. They want us DEAD or ENSLAVED.
See how that polls, Frank.
“Your new chain of Dumpster King fast food restaurants sounds intriguing, Nicolás. Tell me more!”
“Yes, Mr. President. What would you like to know?”
“Do they have a Play Land?”
Rest in the Vine: The OBiden Junta Lays Seige to America
Wait until the people who buy from Amazon can’t get what they want.
Very good point.
Few profited more from the lockdowns and fear than Bezos. What’s the figure – one in five small businesses went under?
Now they’re all gone and if Bezos can’t deliver — well, you can’t get blood from a turnip.
Amazon is one of the worst employers out there. Evil.
Bezos and Trump…both businessmen who know how to make money. Business is in business, to make money!
They have all sorts of business plans in place ready to use…including disruptions in the transportation systems…don’t kid yourselves…Bezos is ready.
Amazon has set up numerous drop shippers on EBay, so if you order something from eBay, it comes in a Prime box or Amazon packaging. So, they are profiting even if you don’t shop on Amazon itself. This has been MOST disconcerting to me.
Yes, I go out of my way to order directly from a shop and avoid Amazon only to find it comes in an Amazon box anyway.
What part of the Coronavirus hoax is it that they don’t understand? Every Republican and Democrat politician as well as Every news media CEO knows this:
The Coronavirus death and hospitalization count is massively inflated just watch the video of The Illinois State Health Director explaining exactly how CDC policy is counting the Coronavirus deaths.
“The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of a clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death!”
That’s the fraud Fauci and Walensky are perpetrating on the American people!
Food’s not on there:
The top short term and long term risk facing the world is the WEF.
What is WEF?
World Economic Forum.
WEF elitists aren’t very smart. They think they are but their values and fundamental understanding about the facts of life are severely limited.
They are extremely arrogant and they are Godless. The description of them is listed in Romans 1 and consequently they have been given over to a reprobate mind.
Let’s create havoc in the food supply over a “flu” shot mandate, said no one ever.
All going according to their plans… emergency laws to follow..well planned by sociopaths and executed by useful idiots.
You know, I don’t think it is going according to their evil plans, praise God:
The Great Reset Is Dead – by Brian Cates (substack.com)
That would be wonderful and a huge relief. Unfortunately, I think they will leave a lot of devastation in their wake.
Scary, since Cates was wrong on everything for four years.
Um, not to be snarky but isn’t Brain Cates part of the “great awakening, justice is coming, blah blah blah” crowd?!?!?
You are correct!
Maybe starving to death will finally wake some people up. Maybe.
The one thing I’m really noticing a shortage of here in southeast PA is frozen foods. Only idiot governments could cause such a problem and the U.S. and Canada have two of the biggest idiots ever.
When People are truly starving…… I would hate to be those elite who took the food away and destroyed lives.
The real fight isn’t going to just get voted out of office, there are more communists and fascist militants on the streets than in any elite office….. it’s going to get ugly, and it has too.
and once we take the streets back, we MUST take our children out of public schools and raise a new generation that will raise the next one in order to keep it.
We must take ownership of the public schools. Get the federal money out and downsize school district administration. We already pay for the greater part of the tab. We should be the deciders.
May be just a major, corrupt city like Chicago issue, but mayor’s should not be involved in school boards whatsoever. They should all be elected by the residents only.
So, the food that would normally be going to Canada and now is no longer going to Canada…what happens to it?
Does it get thrown away? Re-directed to U.S. grocery stores?
We all know ‘Produce’ does not have a long shelf-life outside of cold storage, oh well glad I’m down here in the land of Ron DeSantis. 🤠
SD has addressed this in a more general context. The lack of “overflow” storage and processing capacity means much fresh food will be wasted/destroyed. That will deprive private and commercial food providers of fresh stock and force greater demand onto limited frozen, canned foods. Ain’t gonna be pretty unless their handlers wake up and order Bribem and Trudope to about face.
I was at Walmart’s yesterday. Bananas were 25 cent/lb, could this be an early preemptive result (clear out some refrigeration space for storage?
And in a perfect storm, if these 17,000 union railway employees strike, it will compound shortages (prob. Not food, but other supplies). https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/01/20/17000-union-employees-bnsf-prepare-strike/
Great find!
There is just no getting around it. Whatever this inept administration does turns to s___.
I do believe financial crisis and food shortages were what led to the French Revolution. I would advise Trudeau’s wife to “take a vacation somewhere warm if he doesn’t plan to change policy course.”
Or where her head is located.
Do the trucker still get paid? Will the vegetables perish in the trucks?
truckers typically get paid UPON delivery on a per-mile basis…thus no deliveries = NO pay
Truckers are paid by the mile. Sitting still pays nothing.
Much of Canadian perishable food in the winter comes from the US.
This is just incredibly stupid right now because Omicron is highly transmissible but makes people less sick.
It’s like they are trying for more control when it’s not just slipping away, it’s dropping like a speeding bullet.
That’s it you Canucks…..Keep up those mandates and just see where that gets you. You better be well ammo’d up, and plenty of fishing gear so you catch and kill your own meat and food….Keep voting for those Leftists in Ottowa and see where that gets you….
Canadians have the same problem we do–the vote in a limited number of urban areas. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
Sound familiar?
Yep! Just like here in California where one quarter of our state’s population lives in Los Angeles County. Lot’s of decent people live in CA, it’s just that the multiple sh!t hole areas in the state have too many votes.
I wonder how long people will remain compliant with government mandates and globalist agendas, once starvation looms.
Does anyone realize how much produce comes from Mexico this time of year?
Biden says pipeline welders can learn to code.
I say Canadians can learn canning.
The “males” can learn trapping, fishing and smoking meats.
Hudson Bay still trade for furs?
Canadian Tire trade?
Are Canadians still working for Wampum?
Keep your powder dry!
Governments waging economic warfare against their citizens for activities that have been going on for the last two years.
Elections have consequences. It’s time for some of you people to stop voting for totalitarian leftists. FJB
Uhhh Riiiight, I’m pretty sure it’s only the Fed monitors here who voted for Xiden or Trudope. You know, like the “Patriot Front” clown show types …
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No Florida oranges for you Canada …… and don’t come here to get them.
And
The global elites must feel secure about their ability to decide elections. If not all these tyrants, including Biden will be history. I have a feeling the WEF and fourth branch are confident we will no longer have free and fair elections. They are in control. Our mission is to destroy them.
I’m Canadian. Went for a quick grocery refill today. Meat counter 50% empty. No chicken, but then because of crazy and unethical government Covid Vaxx restrictions, two Quebec farmers had to destroy 800,000 healthy hens some ten days ago.
Something as simple as cornstarch, empty. Empty slots everywhere throughout the store. Only one exception, the fish counter but fish is a Canadian thing.
There was a Twitter video posted here a couple days ago about the chicken fiasco… I assume it was the same thing.
Went to the store today, was just there two days ago and a coffee brand that I get from time to time jumped from $7.49 to $8.99. I used to pay $3.99 for it. Glad I can do w/out it.
Eggs, milk, bread all that kind of stuff was there, but the frozen food section was awfully bare, especially the potato section! There was still plenty of items to choose from if you are shopping for basic groceries, but definitely things are sky rocketing and dwindling down. Usually they have music playing while you shop, today it was dead silent, made things kinda creepy. I saw some stunned faces of people that you could tell were shocked by the price increase. The store in just two days time has done some serious scrambling to move product around so the shelves don’t appear empty.
The ABC stores are now opening at noon because they can’t find people to work. A friend of mine is looking for work and her biggest complaint is that places want workers but are not willing to provide accommodating schedules, she has two kids and has to work around the school hours.
No clue what is going to happen except for that it is going to be a mess. The people that are used to eating out for their meals everyday are going to be feeling some serious pain when they have to go buy groceries for food. Most of them don’t know how to boil water.
A FRAUD Pandemic, with 95.5% Survival rate, WILL BE THE END of the so-called leaders of Canada, and everywhere else, especially when the People understand that the Vaxx is PREMEDITATED MURDER. The PROOF has already been established beyond doubt. Every Politician in every State that has any Investment in Big Pharma, will end up with BULLETS throughout their body, when the People realize what has happened, and the Death Premeditated upon them.
It’s a shaggy dog story but I’ll just tell the punch line: Soccer Mom being interviewed says “I don’t care about farm policy! I get my food from Shop Rite!
You Canadians will just have to starve. No worries, it will happen in the U.S. after
you’re all gone.
The Big Money A-Holes behind this scam will let ships waiting offshore full of food, stay that way until the cargo rots. They can do it intentionally, it’s part of the plan & backsup the BS story while also setting up the BS price increases. When food rots in the cargo hold, they offset the “loss”with tax breaks & increased pricing. It’s a stratigic ploy to increase profits. Allowing 200,000 tons of grapes on one ship waiting offshore to rot, then they can charge ten times as much for the next 4 shiploads of 200,000 tons of grapes, then fifty times as much for the nest 10 shiploads when one of the last 4 shiploads is left to rot in the dock yatds. Just wait, it will happen.
And it will be backedup by the trucking shortag & excused due to cleanup costs of the rotting grape poles before it becomes a toxic environmental hazard. Anyone want to bet on it? Send me your odds on it, will this happen or not, – Rotting food waiting offshore – then in dockyards – Possible environmental damage due to the rotten food. Add in parameters like storage time & space, shortage of trucks, etc.A big casino can come up with more ways of taking bets & setting the odds, SOMEBODY can make BIG BANK on this idea. I want 2% after taxes for coming up with this idea first.
*grapes is only an example for any cargo of food , produce or other product.
These men and women usually operate solo or in pairs. A rapid test at the border would take 45 minutes and end the stupidity.
Didn’t Mao starve millions of his own people to death for the “greater good”?
It appears we have a budding Mao (mass murderer ) “leading “our northern neighbor. But one might ask “where is he leading them?”
Why can’t anyone seem to see, and report anywhere that what is going on is this: The Intentional Destruction of the American Economy by the Communist-Democrats?
Every single policy since Biden “took over” has been designed to 1) Destroy oil 2) Destroy employment 3) Destroy small business 4) Destroy the dollar 5) Destroy the supply chain.
The goal of the Communists is to destroy America so that they can “build back better” under Authoritarian Communism.
We are in a War with the Democrats.
Soon they will be chasing down trucks to eat.
They just need to park their rigs and go to where it’s warm and sit this one out. Park on the freeway of course.
They just can’t let it go, they have to push further to create more crises… then of course they come in with the fix
Justin Trudeau is just stupid. He thinks cutting off trade with a country which has nearly 10 times the population will turn into a big win for Socialism? It will only give Canadians a front row seat to see their future. Canadians need to get rid of that clown before he destroys their entire way of life.
I lived there 35 years ago. Back then, they were much more Collectivist than the US, but they weren’t out to destroy their own country. The current situation will not get better and could become a disaster very quickly. The answer is get rid of Trudeau and they can make that happen in a matter of weeks. But will they?
I think trudeau is going to use this ‘crisis’ to implement martial law.
Government induced starvation. Just like Communist China and the USSR.
I have an idea. Since our US trucks are forced to sit at the border without being able to deliver their stuff, simply open up the trucks and give the stuff for free to all the Canadian people who what to line up to get it.