Minister Repeats False Claim Convoy Protesters Were Linked to Ottawa Arson
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino repeated the false claim that Freedom Convoy protesters were linked to an Ottawa ...
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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino repeated the false claim that Freedom Convoy protesters were linked to an Ottawa ...
Inflammatory? >> it got worse saying they should go to ottawa and arrest every single member of parliament. this language is reflective of just how paranoid and conspiratorial this movement is. i have seen it from the very beginning of this convoy, before they even arrived in ottawa. the language being used by these groups was that trudeau, justin trudeau, the prime minister, needs to be arrested and tried for treason. their language was that we can no longer trust or elected representatives, that this group needed to be given special status, the organizing group, canada unity, need to be give...
Only because they are in canada, but probably because they are overwhelmingly white people who do not have that fear of law enforcement in general, and certainly not in a country that is not the united states. and while i'm absolutely not suggesting -- let me just stop right here and say, i'm not suggesting that is what should happen to these truckers in canada but i'm going to point out this does raise questions about who gets to participate in democracy and who gets to make credible claims about their loss of so-called freedom. >> frank, you know, as errin mentions, this isn't just sort of w...
The “freedom convoy” was a culmination of years of persistent mobilization by far-right networks whose growth intensified as they digitally tapped into COVID-19 related grievances.
Many of the leading participants in the convoy protest have yet to face criminal charges more than a month after downtown Ottawa streets were cleared, according to the latest information made public by Ottawa police.