The yellow vest movement that started in France last November has been showing up at more and more Canadian events, including the recent United We Roll truck convoy that drove across Canada trying to bring awareness to the need for pipelines for Alberta.  

Yesterday (March 23) a handful of yellow vest protesters were in front of Airdrie City Hall, making their voices heard on a number of issues.

Colleen West served as the group's spokesperson and said the reason they were there was mostly to bring awareness and let everyone know that Canadians should come first.

"I'm standing out here, fighting for our sovereignty because I believe, strongly believe, that the UN has been ceding it away from Canada slowly but now they're really cracking down on it.  You can go back to Agenda 21 and it all coincides with the Paris Accord, the Sustainable Development Agenda, and the Migrant Compact."

West says the Yellow Vest movement is concerned about and hopes to bring awareness, to several issues.  Their brochure says they are against over-taxation, including the carbon tax.  They advocate for pipeline construction and energy self-sufficiency, maintaining Canada's sovereignty, and call for Freedom of Speech and Free Press.  

They call for an immediate end to illegal and irregular immigration while promoting legal immigration to amounts that allow for successful integration into Canada's multicultural society and economy.  

The brochure says the yellow vest movement is a peaceful one that advocates no use of violence.  

West says their movement is all about fighting for humanity.  "We shouldn't be taxed to the breaking point.  They're rolling out this carbon tax.  Carbon is the air that you breathe.  We learned that in school.  The trees and the plants and the crops won't grow without us emitting carbon.  You can't tax us for the air we breathe.  If we don't breathe that, our crops don't grow and we don't have trees then we can't breathe."

West says the yellow vest movement in Canada just wants to make sure that Canadians come first.

"Not the UN.  Why do they have any business governing our country?  They're unelected bureaucrats.  It's nonsense.

All but one of the approximately 10 yellow vest protesters were Airdrie residents. 

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