She attributed them to the Liberal government's promotion of the "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) ideology, recent adoption of the Online News Act, and suppression of FreedomConvoy protesters.
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During the truckers' FreedomConvoy protests in Ottawa, a faction of the protesters felt the Governor General could or should dissolve Parliament. Petitions were filled and letters and calls flooded Rideau Hall, but it was a waste of time.
Just hours before cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser asked the RCMP in an email for a FreedomConvoy threat assessment and called the protesters "a threat to democracy."
Thomas started her functions on Jan. 11, 2022, a few days before the FreedomConvoy descended on Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. The government invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the protest.
Trudeau was replying to Ford, who had said that the blockade in Windsor, when compared to the FreedomConvoy protest in Ottawa, was the “bigger one for us and the country.”
Many public figures became household names around the time of the FreedomConvoy in the winter of 2022, for actions they took or didn’t, or for what they said or perhaps wish they hadn’t.
Crown prosecutors say FreedomConvoy organizer Tamara Lich has breached her bail conditions by agreeing to attend a ceremony to receive a "Freedom Award" next month, and that she should be sent back to jail to await trial.
The three men had participated in the Coutts protest on the Canada-U.S. border, which was sparked in solidarity with the FreedomConvoy in Ottawa to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
“You don't have to have a tinfoil hat to be worried about the issues of privacy and surveillance, especially in a context where … people who donated $50 to the [FreedomConvoy] truckers suddenly found their bank accounts frozen,” Mr. Ambler said.
Yes indeed, after a couple of dry runs in which many politicians and media activists tried desperately to portray the trucker-led FreedomConvoy of 2022 and the Sept. 20 Million March 4 Children protests as fuelled by Nazis, white supremacists, and others
OTTAWA—Crown prosecutors say FreedomConvoy organizer Tamara Lich had an interaction with convoy spokesperson Tom Marazzo at a June 16 event in Toronto in violation of her bail conditions.
Bail, Rearrest
As a key FreedomConvoy organizer, Lich was first arrested on Feb. 17 and charged with counselling to commit mischief and obstructing police, among other charges.
FreedomConvoy
The protest at the Coutts border was one of several blockades of Canada-U.S. border crossings, held in solidarity with the truckers' FreedomConvoy protest in Ottawa.
Van Huigenbos became involved in the demonstration near the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts in early 2022, which was sparked in solidarity with the FreedomConvoy in Ottawa opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
“If the freezing of bank accounts during the freedomconvoy is any indication, we still can’t trust Parliament to never enact unconstitutional laws,” said the foundation's litigation director Christine Van Geyn.
"My primary concern is individuals or groups with potential to deliberately instigate conflict with the FreedomConvoy movement and to discredit the FreedomConvoy," the unnamed witness said in the affidavit.
One is under the name The People’s Convoy, and another is under the name FreedomConvoy USA 2022.
Brian Brase, one of the core truckers organizing The People’s Convoy, told The Epoch Times that more routes will be released as the convoy moves.
