A Canadian man who joined the so-called Freedom Convoy now says he regrets going after spending his life savings to support the trucker protest against vaccine mandates.
“I regret going,” Martin Joseph Anglehart told CBC. He said he lost his home and $13,000 after spending it on gas and food for the truckers who occupied downtown Ottawa for much of February.
Anglehart is currently living out of his SUV. He said his landlord kicked him out over his “point of view” concerning the protest.
Anglehart admits he never had “a stance on mandates”. He told CBC that he decided to support the truckers because in June 2020 he was prevented from visiting a dying friend at a Montreal hospital because of COVID-19 restrictions. So, when he heard about the protest in Ottawa he closed his business and left his home to go support the truckers.
Bank statements from late January to early February shows that Anglehart transferred thousands of dollars and spent thousands more on gas, according to CBC.
“I started delivering fuel and picking up laundry. Everything for the truckers ” he said.
He was arrested on Feb. 15 for delivering fuel to the truckers after Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared the protest an “illegal occupation.” Anglehart’s Dodge Caravan was seized and remains impounded because he doesn’t have the money to cover cost to get it back.
He told CBC that he never saw a cent of the millions raised online to support the truckers.
After losing everything to support a cause he admits he never really believed in in the first place, Anglehart is feeling remorseful.
“I would like to apologize to [the] people in Ottawa,” he said. “I’m sorry … All I wanted was to help people.”
You didn’t believe in the cause . You just wanted to help the truckers . In all that time did you look at any media . Understand the problems & the finances they had to maintain this white nationalist cause.