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

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

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.”

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.”

"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.

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.

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.

Among false claims made by media, the CBC suggested the Freedom Convoy was a Kremlin-sponsored operation, while the Toronto Star reported that loaded firearms had been found among the truckers during the police operation to end the protest.

The Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 in response to the Freedom Convoy protests in downtown Ottawa, granting police the means to use extraordinary force in clearing protesters away from Parliament Hill.

While police appeared eager to crack down upon and arrest the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa in 2022, they seem to have handcuffed themselves when it comes to dealing with growing and hostile anti-Israel protesters.

It is not at all inconceivable that had this law existed when the Freedom Convoy occupied downtown Ottawa, it would have been put to use.

The Trudeau government invoked the powers of the Emergencies Act, formerly the War Measures Act, on Feb. 14, 2022, to end the three-week Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.

He was also not connected to the Freedom Convoy protests, the police said.

Poilievre also raised concerns about the possibility of the BoC being able to surveil how Canadians spend their money and “potentially abuse” citizens’ civil liberties, citing as an example the freezing of the accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters after

Commentary Will Tamara Lich receive a fair trial for the charges she faces in relation to organizing the Freedom Convoy?

Will the public get a clear picture of whether the threshold was met for the government to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa back in February?

Despite pressure from Ottawa police and officials to end the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, protesters continue to demonstrate against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

OTTAWA—The commissioner of the inquiry examining Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act to bring an end to the "Freedom Convoy" protest in February has granted standing to the organizers, police, and representatives of all three levels of government.

Protestors block traffic at the Ambassador Bridge, linking Windsor, Ontario and Detroit on Feb. 9, 2022 in solidarity with Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa against COVID-19 restrictions.