Mon Jun 20, 2022 – 4:02 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A 70-year-old retired truck driver from Ontario has joined Canadian Armed Forces veteran James Topp on the final two-week leg of his cross country walk to Ottawa in the name of freedom.
Walter Hofman, who retired in November 2021, will accompany Topp on his nationwide walk to Parliament Hill in Ottawa in support of Canadian freedom and to call for an end to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-era mandates.
After joining Topp’s journey on Thursday in Sudbury, Ontario, Hofman will be walking an astonishing 500 kilometers (roughly 300 miles) to the nation’s capital of Ottawa.
Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Hofman’s wife Wendy explained that he began training to join Topp in March, and since then has racked up a staggering 1,200 km.
To keep up with Topp’s pace, Hofman walked 55 km on the first day of the journey in order to make it to Parliament Hill by Topp’s projected deadline of June 30, one day before Canada Day.
His wife told LifeSiteNews that while the march to Ottawa with Topp is for freedom, an integral part of her husband’s journey, as a devout Christian with decades of ministry experience,
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