(L-R) JCCF Lawyer Keith Wilson and Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich hold a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 3., 2022.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he's concerned the RCMP chose not to the release the badge numbers of officers who cleared "Freedom Convoy" protesters from the Ambassador Bridge last winter.

The freedom of peaceful assembly is expressly protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Freedom Convoy has always been clear that it supports only peaceful assembly."

The Freedom Convoy, as it was called by organizers, was a series of protests and blockades staged by truckers over COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in 2022.

Organizers of the Freedom Convoy denied this charge, saying that they are all of diverse backgrounds.

Screenshot of a fundraiser page for the Freedom Convoy on GoFundMe in January 2022.

Trudeau then shifted to the domestic issue of the Freedom Convoy, calling it “anti-vaccine and anti-government protests.”

After truckers from the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa on Jan. 29 to demand the lifting of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, solidarity border blockades started appearing across the country in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario.

by Freedom Convoy supporters was code for “Heil Hitler,” retweeted Noormohamed's post with the hashtag “FactsMatter.”

Despite being a visible figure during the convoy protests, King is not one of the Freedom Convoy organizers, according to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which represented several of the convoy leaders.

At that time, the trucker-led Freedom Convoy protest demanding the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions had been in Ottawa since Jan. 28, and border blockades had surfaced across the country.

Convoy protesting Ottawa’s vaccine mandates.

The Freedom Convoy protest began to oppose the federal government's vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers.

As the Freedom Convoy began to ramp up, so did Trudeau’s intolerant and divisive rhetoric. He said people in opposition to mandates held “unacceptable views.”

GoFundMe’s attack on the Freedom Convoy is the latest red flag that Silicon Valley’s power over us has to be stopped.

The summary of Ferguson’s interview with the commission says she “found it difficult to say whether the Freedom Convoy situation could have been managed or resolved without the Emergencies Act.”

Sloly resigned as the police chief on Feb. 15, 2022, after heavy criticism over his handling of the Freedom Convoy, in which truckers paralyzed Ottawa's downtown core in protest of COVID-19 vaccine border mandates and other public health restrictions.

"In recent weeks, we have been following the news about the Freedom Convoy 2022 protests that have taken place in Canada. ...

The protest came after more than a month since the Freedom Convoy movement was cleared from downtown Ottawa following escalated police action. In recent weeks, most provinces have lifted their COVID-19 vaccination mandates and various restrictions.

Freedom Convoy organizers (L-R) Chris Barber, Benjamin Dichter, and Tamara Lich hold a press conference in Ottawa on Jan. 30, 2022.

The cabinet was also given a sharp reminder of the loud opposition they face among a group known as the "freedom convoy."

asked NDP MP Matthew Green, a strong detractor of the Freedom Convoy protesters who likens them to terrorists. Section 2(d) of the CSIS Act relates to threats intended to violently overthrow the government.

Convoy leader Tamara Lich performed music. 

The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) did not request that the federal government invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa this winter, its interim chief told a House committee on May 17.

Commentary Canada has been wracked with growing anti-mandate protests since the truckers' Freedom Convoy descended on Ottawa over three weeks ago. The government and legacy media initially tried to ignore the growing convoy.

Lich faces for her participation in the Freedom Convoy protests in 2022. The lawyer representing Mrs.

‘Democracy Faces a Growing Threat’ Despite alluding to the Freedom Convoy and related protests of last winter, Trudeau said in May his government would take measures “in a way that continues to defend freedom of speech” and freedom to protest.

She also steered the force through the COVID-19 pandemic and the "Freedom Convoy" early last year, when protesters decrying COVID-19 health restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government clogged the streets around Parliament Hill and at several

Protesters take part in the Freedom Convoy demonstrations against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other restrictions on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 29, 2022.

A woman dances and waves a Canadian flag during the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa on Feb. 12, 2022.