David Lametti
Liberal MP David Lametti was the justice minister and attorney general when hundreds of truckersprotesting the vaccine mandate descended on Ottawa in late January 2022.
Chris Barber, one of the lead organizers of the truckerprotest, told The Epoch Times that the judge's ruling was "amazing news" on the two-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy's arrival in Ottawa.
“We will not allow for unsafe or unlawful conditions that could lead to another unlawful protest as seen in February,” the OPS said in an April 25 statement, referencing the Freedom Convoy truckerprotest.
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.
The U.S. truckerprotest was inspired by a Canadian movement known as the Freedom Convoy, which protested for weeks in Ottawa, Canada's capital city, against COVID-19 mandates.
The federal government proceeded to declare a state of emergency that day, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau depicting the truckers’ protest as “illegal and dangerous” at a related press conference.
Truckers and supporters depart on a cross-country convoy destined for Ottawa to protest a federal vaccine mandate for truckers in Delta, B.C., on Jan. 23, 2022.
Freeland announced the measures at a press conference, shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a state of emergency due to the ongoing protests against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions by truckers and their supporters.
The Freedom Convoy truckerprotest began as a demonstration against the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate requiring all cross-border truck drivers to be fully vaccinated or face a 14-day quarantine upon returning to the country.
“I was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing,” the Canadian actress wrote on Instagram, referring to a large truckerprotest against
A vehicle convoy has blocked a major Canada–U.S. border crossing in Manitoba as demonstrators protest in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy truckers in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
During his speech in Calgary, Malone noted the “power of civil protest” and referenced the truckers’ convoy in 2022, saying it “got the attention of the entire world.”
Following the GoFundMe announcements, protest convoy organizers set up the "Freedom Convoy 2022" fundraiser on GiveSendGo.
Several U.S. Republicans subsequently raised concerns about GoFundMe’s removal of the funds for the truckerprotest.
Barber, two of the most well-known organizers of the trucker convoy protest that took place from late January to mid-February 2022, are charged with counselling to disobey a court order, counselling to obstruct police, and mischief that interferes with
Some U.S. truckers showed up at a bridge on the U.S.-Canada border on Saturday to support the Canadian truckersprotesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Ottawa police say the woman who stood on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the first day of the truckerprotest is not associated with the Freedom Convoy truckers. Police say she is unlikely to re-offend and won't be charged.
Lich was an organizer and activist at the 2022 Freedom Convoy Protests, in which truckers converged on the capital of Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
Participants in a truckerprotest dubbed the "Take Our Border Back Convoy" earned praise from Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) on Friday for their efforts to pressure the federal government to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.
