Yellow Vests Prince George is a group of local Canadians who gathered together Saturday "to protest the carbon tax and the treason of our country's politicians who have the audacity to sell out our country's sovereignty over to the globalist UN and their tyrannical policies," according to their Facebook post.
On Saturday, Dec. 15 the group gathered in front of City Hall but no one was there but the group so on Dec. 22 they moved to the high-traffic intersection of Highways 97/16.
They began gathering at 11 a.m. and at about 12:30 there was about 40 people there. There's no set time for the end of the protest and they'll come together every Saturday from now on to raise their voices in protest.
Signs that said "No UN Pact," and "Don't tax us into poverty," and "Treasonous Trudeau must go," were carried by protesters in high visibility vests, an idea that sprouted in France in mid-November in protest against their government's reforms.
Canadians across the country have taken up the call, including Tabitha Richet, a founder of the local group.
"The UN pact is dangerous," Richet said. "We welcome immigration if you are willing to go through the proper lines to do it. It doesn't matter what race, religion, gender you are we all have this problem, no matter your political background, this is going to affect everyone. Why did we sign the UN pact when we can't even look after our own citizens, when we have so many homeless people and so many veterans that aren't getting what they deserve?"
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration purports to set out "a common understanding, shared responsibilities and unity of purpose regarding migration," according to the UN refugees and migrants website. It also said the global compact for migration is the first UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration.
Richet doesn't think it's a good idea.
"The old saying is you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, you teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime so why don't we help these people in their own country," she asked. "Because if we over populate ourselves, how are we going to be able to help? We can barely afford to look after our own people in our country right now never mind somebody else."
George Giannoulis stopped by the protest site on his way to work.
"That UN Compact Migration policy is going to do nothing but tax Canadian citizens to death where we uphold migrants," Giannoulis said. "I'm not against immigration. I love all colours, I love all nations, I love all people. I don't mind immigration but slowly so they have a chance to assimilate to our culture at a controlled pace, not the way Trudeau is doing this and the UN wants to do this. It's ridiculous. It's going to ruin Canada and turn Canada into a third world country."
Horns were often honking and voices were raised together in cacophony of protest.
"And we want Trudeau gone," Maryanne Crampton, another protester, said. "Gone."
