Freedom Convoy Founding Organizer Says He is Seeking Political Asylum in the United States
To avoid his upcoming criminal trial in Canada, James Bauder says he is ‘living in exile’ and enlisting support from Trump allies
As Canadians drove up to cottages and enjoyed family barbecues for Canada Day, one of the founding organizers of the Freedom Convoy found himself alone in an RV park somewhere in the United States with two puppies and a mobile phone.
“I’m living in the middle of nowhere,” James Bauder told PressProgress on the eve of Canada’s national holiday. “I’m by myself. There’s me, myself and my dogs.”
The convoy leader is careful not to disclose details about his whereabouts, other than to suggest he can be found somewhere between “the North Pole and the South Pole.”
“I don’t go out in public, I just lay low,” Bauder confided. “It’s lonely. Other than my phone, I’d be going up the wall.”
Bauder is set to stand trial in Ottawa at the end of this year over his role in the Freedom Convoy. Bauder faces several criminal charges, including mischief, intimidation by blocking or obstructing a highway, obstructing a police officer, plus two counts of counselling others to commit indictable offences that were not committed.
The convoy leader not only maintains his innocence, but believes he is being persecuted by Canada’s government as part of what he characterizes as a “political prosecution.”
James Bauder and his “Canada Unity” RV in Mattawa, Ontario in 2022 (James Bauder, Rumble)
Despite his criminal case being handled “pro bono” by a team of lawyers from a convoy-friendly litigation charity called The Democracy Fund, Bauder was advised his chances of avoiding jail time are slim to none given the recent convictions of other convoy leaders, including Pat King, Chris Barber and Tamara Lich.
“‘There’s nothing we can do about it,’” Bauder said he was told. “You’re praying and you’re watching all of the people being charged go to court and get politically prosecuted, and then your lawyers phone you up and say, ‘James, we’ve got bad news for you — you’re going to jail.’”
As a Hail Mary gamble, the convoy leader has decided to take the unusual step of filing for political asylum in the United States to avoid standing trial in Ottawa.
“My only option on the chessboard was to claim political asylum,” Bauder explained. “We’ve flipped the game of chess back in my court. Now I have the Crown in check.”
Bauder says he is now a “political asylum refugee living in exile in the USA.”
James Bauder at past public events with Sarah Palin and Danielle Smith (James Bauder, Facebook)
Matthew Kolken, a high-profile New York state immigration lawyer, has been brought on board to help the Canadian asylum seeker seek refuge in the United States.
“He said, ‘This is very winnable,’” Bauder recalled. “‘You’re going to set legal precedents … this is a case of a lifetime.’”
Kolken, who is described as a “conservative influencer” by Fox News where he appears as an occasional commentator, told PressProgress he had “no comment” as to his client’s chance of success, but confirmed Bauder is formally applying for asylum under section 208 of the US Immigration and Nationality Act.
“Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States … irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section,” Kolken noted.
Immigration lawyer and Fox News commentator Matthew Kolken (CATO Institute)
As he waits for his asylum application to be processed, Bauder is quietly gaming out his next moves.
Over the coming weeks, Bauder plans to roll out an ambitious media strategy to raise awareness of his legal battles and an associated crowdfunding campaign that could involve appearances on big American cable news programs and support from allies connected to Trump’s White House.
“Some big, big names are going to be involved in covering this story,” Bauder promised, adding that there are “definite people that I’m working with that are very close to Trump and the Trump admin team.”
On Canada Day, Bauder had lunch with Paul Vallelly, a former military analyst for Fox News and a retired general who served as a commander of a US Army PSYOP group. Vallely advocates Canada becoming America’s 51st state, has close ties to former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn and is a prominent influencer in QAnon circles.
Vallelly posed for a photo with Bauder’s Canada-US “Freedom Convoy” flag and signed a note crediting Bauder for being a “great ‘patriot’ for Canada.”
Ret. Maj. General Paul Vallely and James Bauder (James Bauder, Facebook)
Bauder is perhaps best known as a key author of the convoy’s controversial “Memorandum of Understanding,” a pseudolegal document proposing to give an unelected committee of convoy leaders and social media influencers, in conjunction with Canada’s Senators and Governor General, the power to repeal COVID-19 public health rules. The MOU was later withdrawn.
“James Bauder and his group, Canada Unity, sought support for a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that, on its face, called for the Governor General to change Canada’s system of government if all COVID-19 restrictions were not repealed,” the Emergencies Act inquiry’s final report found.
Bauder adamantly denies leading an insurrection or trying to “overthrow the government,” insisting that his proposed committee was intended to investigate whether the government had broken the law.
“What we had wanted to do was form a committee of people like Dr. Jordan Peterson, Randy Hillier, get a committee of good, respected, smart brainiacs,” Bauder explained. “They would work side-by-side with the Senate to investigate publicly the laws.”
Asked what he foresaw happening to Canada’s democratically-elected members of Parliament under his plan, Bauder clarified that the MOU was only a first draft and said he expected the Senate or Governor General would have provided feedback and proposed amendments.
“We’re not lawyers,” Bauder stressed. “Three truck drivers wrote the darn thing.”
“I humbly, humbly apologize if Canadians felt that that was the premise of it,” Bauder added. “I apologize to Canadians over and over and over. I’m sorry if there were a few words that got construed and slurred around and misrepresented with disinformation and misinformation from the fake media.”
James Bauder testifies at Emergencies Act inquiry in 2022 (POEC)
The Trump administration has recently sparked nationwide protests in the US over draconian raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Trump’s anti-immigrant “mass deportation program” is also impacting Canadians living and working in the US, as well as Canadian and international travellers who have been arbitrarily detained for weeks at US border crossings.
Despite this, Bauder is personally unconcerned about ICE. “I’m here lawfully,” Bauder said confidently. “I’m not worried about somebody showing up on my doorstep, I’m in a really safe position.”
“I’ve got a wall of guardian angels around me,” Bauder added. “We will get this brought forward to have Trump intervene, and then Trump will do what Trump does.”
Bauder’s confidence has been bolstered by US President Donald Trump’s return to power, pointing out Trump previously expressed support for the Freedom Convoy.
“(Trump) doesn’t like seeing the truckers get beat on. He did promise in his words that he would be with us to the very end.”
(James Bauder, Facebook)
While he waits patiently in his RV for Trump and his guardian angels to answer his prayers, Bauder finds his lonely thoughts often turn to his wife, Sandra, and the simple life he left back home.
“I miss my wife,” Bauder said. “I miss being able to sit in my chair at home and watch my big screen.”
“I miss the open road and the freedom of driving long-haul trucks … I miss being able to drive all over the place and see sunsets and sunrises, and see all the different scenery and the beauty, and being able to have that life with my wife as my partner there beside me.”
Bauder’s criminal charges could carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
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Matthew L. Kolken
Matthew L. Kolken is a trial lawyer with experience in all aspects of United States Immigration Law – including deportation defense before Immigration Courts throughout the United States, appellate practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals.
He served as an elected member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Board of Governors. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits.
Mr. Kolken has twice been named “Lawyer of the Year” in Upstate New York by The Best Lawyers in America®. He has received the highest AV peer rating by Martindale-Hubbell, has been ranked in the top 50 overall lawyers in Upstate New York by Super Lawyers magazine, was listed by Business First of Buffalo as being among the “Legal Elite of Western New York," and has received a "Superb" rating and "Client's Choice" award on Avvo.com. The New York Law Journal has recognized him as a "Lawyer Who Leads by Example" for his work providing pro bono legal services to unaccompanied refugee children, and he is the recipient of the 2018 Marquis Who's Who in American Law Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Kolken was also awarded the American Immigration Lawyers Association Upstate New York Chapter's Equal Justice Under the Law Peter J. Murrett III Pro Bono Award in recognition for community service, and the Erie County Bar Association's Pro Bono Award in recognition and appreciation for legal services performed in immigration matters before the Court.
Mr. Kolken has appeared nationally on FOX News, MSNBC, and CNN. His legal analysis has been solicited by the Washington Post's Fact Check of the immigration statements of Secretary Hillary Clinton, then Presidential candidate Donald Trump, and the immigration status of the parents of First Lady Melania Trump. His opinions on immigration law have been published in Forbes Magazine, Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, and FOX News among others. He has been an invited speaker at AILA's annual conference on grounds of removability, is the author of the Deportation and Removal Blog on ILW.com, where he is a member of the advisory board of the Immigration Daily, an online immigration news periodical with more than 35,000 readers. He is also a prominent immigration reform activist having been ranked as the most influential person on Twitter in the area of Immigration Law.
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David’s passion for current affairs and common-sense editorial commentary was sparked after his experience as a journalist in Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy of 2022. During his career as Director of Programming & Development, and working directly for Leon Fontaine, he’s had the opportunity to meet and build relationships with content producers and public figures from around the globe. His natural giftings as a communicator/public speaker and his thirst for the truth lays a strong foundation to help bring reason and common sense back to Canadians. A dedicated father and husband, you might also catch David at a Calgary Flames game or on the golf course. David considers it an honour to be the co-host of Citizen.
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From: Hal Roberts <hal.roberts@bridgecitynews.ca
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:52:47 +0000
Subject: Re: Tamara Lich
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
I can chat but not til end of day. Very busy today.
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Lawyer for Tamara Lich secures procedural victory in Ontario Court of Justice
TDF’s Legal Team
Written by TDF’s Legal Team
July 21, 2023
Tamara Ontario win
The prosecution agrees to provide evidence and a witness list after
Lich brings a motion for particulars.
TORONTO: Tamara Lich's lawyer appeared before the Ontario Court of
Justice Tuesday seeking particulars of the alleged crimes committed by
his client during the Freedom Convoy protests. The motion concluded
with the prosecution agreeing to provide a full list of witnesses and
evidence by August 1, 2023.
The concept of particulars is similar to but distinct from disclosure.
TDF's litigation director, Alan Honner, explains: "The prosecution has
a duty to fully disclose all relevant evidence to the accused, but
particulars need only be disclosed if a judge is satisfied that it is
necessary for a fair trial." According to Honner, particulars might be
ordered where a crime can be committed in different ways, where
disclosure is broad, or where there are multiple co-accused.
Tamara's defence is being crowd-funded by The Democracy Fund. She has
retained Lawrence Greenspon, who is one of the best-respected lawyers
in Ottawa. Her trial is expected to last three weeks and is scheduled
to begin in Ottawa on September 5, 2023.
To assist with Tamara's case, please make a donation on this page.
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public education. TDF supports an access to justice initiative for
Canadians whose civil liberties have been infringed by government
lockdowns and other public policy responses to the pandemic.
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As Emergencies Act report tabled, key witnesses have moved on
Public Order Emergency Commission to release findings later today
Alistair Steele · CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2023 5:00 AM AST |
Commissioner Paul Rouleau listens to counsel question a witness during
hearings in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2022. The commission will table its
final report in Parliament later today. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian
Press)
As the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) prepares to release
its highly anticipated report into last winter's convoy protests, many
of the witnesses from the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service
who testified last fall have either left or moved to new roles.
On Thursday, the commission announced it would make its final report
public later today after tabling it in Parliament.
The Canadian Press reported the commission had requested, and been
granted, an extension to the original Feb. 6 deadline for submitting
its final report to the government.
The deadline for tabling the report in Parliament — Feb. 20 — remained
intact, however. That meant the commission's findings and
recommendations had to be made public no later than Monday, the Family
Day statutory holiday in Ontario.
(The timeline set out by the Emergencies Act requires that the report
be submitted to Parliament and released to the public within 360 days
of the emergency declaration being revoked, which occurred on Feb. 23,
2022.)
A politician at a desk, as seen from the middle of the audience.
Former Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson testifies before the Public Order
Emergency Commission on Oct. 18, 2022. Watson did not run for
re-election. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Mayor, councillors gone
The commission heard from 76 witnesses over six weeks of public
testimony, from Oct. 14 until the prime minister's appearance on Nov.
25. Of those, seven were either elected officials or senior
bureaucrats with the City of Ottawa, and five more were senior members
of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS).
None of the elected officials from the city who testified — former
mayor Jim Watson, former councillor and police services board chair
Diane Deans, and former councillors Mathieu Fleury and Catherine
McKenney — remains in office. Of those, only McKenney ran for
re-election last fall, but failed in their bid to become mayor.
Of the other city officials who testified, only Kim Ayotte, Ottawa's
general manager of emergency and protective services, remains in the
same job.
Former city manager Steve Kanellakos, who testified about his efforts
to broker a deal between police and the protesters, resigned amid
controversy on Nov. 28, just two days before the release of a damning
report on Ottawa's troubled LRT project.
Watson's former chief of staff Serge Arpin left with his boss,
customary practice among political staffers.
A police officer sits on a row of chairs.
Deputy Chief Steve Bell, now chief administrative officer of the
Ottawa Police Service, waits to appear before the Public Order
Emergency Commission on Oct. 24, 2022. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian
Press)
All 5 OPS witnesses remain
All five senior members of the Ottawa Police Service who testified
before the commission last fall remain, though most have changed jobs.
(This doesn't include former chief Peter Sloly, who resigned during
the occupation of Ottawa by convoy protesters, and who had been out of
policing for more than eight months by the time he testified before
the commission in late October.)
Steve Bell, who was named interim chief after Sloly's resignation, and
who oversaw the eventual dispersal of the protest in Ottawa, is now a
deputy chief and chief administrative officer of the OPS. At the time
of the convoy's arrival in Ottawa, Bell was in charge of intelligence,
information and investigation for the force.
Patricia Ferguson, who testified to the deep "dysfunction" at the top
of the OPS, and said the force was left "floundering" when protesters
failed to leave the capital after the first weekend, remains acting
deputy chief.
Russell Lucas, an inspector with the police service's special events
section during the protests, is currently an acting superintendent,
according to an update provided by the OPS on Thursday.
Supt. Robert Bernier, an inspector within the force's communications
branch who was appointed event commander during the occupation, is
also listed by the OPS as an acting superintendent.
Supt. Robert Drummond, who was tasked with overseeing the police
liaison team that negotiated with protest leaders and the public order
unit that eventually helped end the occupation, also maintains that
rank. (Drummond was in an acting role at the time of his testimony
last fall.)
Police clear an area of protesters near Parliament Hill.
Police and protesters square off in front of Parliament Hill on Feb.
19, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
'Multiple points of failure'
In an email to CBC, Paul Champ, a lawyer who represented downtown
residents and businesses during the Emergencies Act inquiry, noted the
commission heard "extensive evidence of multiple points of failure" by
both government officials and police.
"Even though many of those responsible have left the stage, the POEC
report will memorialize those mistakes and serve as a guide for public
officials going forward. I would also like to see some apologies by
the police, the city and the province, but that's probably asking too
much," Champ wrote.
He said he also hopes to see the report provide some guidance "about
the oversight and direction the Ottawa Police Services Board can have
over the Ottawa Police Service."
Journalists covering the inquiry will be allowed to peruse an
embargoed version of the report starting at 10 a.m. ET. The embargo
will be lifted once the report is tabled in Parliament.
Commissioner Paul Rouleau will also read a prepared statement, which
will be streamed live on the commission's website, where the full
report will be made available to the public.
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On 6/30/22, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
> https://davidraymondamos3.blog
>
> Wednesday, 18 May 2022
>
> Crown trying to put Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich back in jail
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Karimjee, Moiz (MAG)" <Moiz.Karimjee@ontario.ca>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 03:06:48 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Ed Fast: Freedom? Yeah, right… | Ed Fast:
> Liberté? Et oui Hey Bill King what will your boss and legions of Proud
> Canadians do if the Crown takes Tamara Lich's Freedom after celebating
> the Queen's Birthday???
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
>
> I am on vacation until July 8th. For Bail Reviews (including
> discussing time estimates), Superior Court, Summary Appeal, Trial,
> Hate Crime or any other matter requiring immediate attention please
> email Rolanda Ahadjitse at Rolanda.Ahadjitse@ontario.ca and Olivia
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> Moiz Karimjee
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>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada
>
>
> Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to remain in custody over Canada Day
> weekend
> Lich was arrested in Alberta on Monday for allegedly breaching her
> bail conditions
>
> Dan Taekema · CBC News · Posted: Jun 30, 2022 4:23 PM ET
>
>
> Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich talks to reporters Feb. 14, 2022
> in Ottawa. Lich made a brief video appearance in an Ottawa courtroom
> Thursday after being arrested for allegedly breaching her bail
> conditions. (Frédéric Pepin/Radio-Canada)
>
> Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich will remain in custody over the
> Canada Day weekend after she was arrested this week for allegedly
> breaching her bail conditions.
>
> Lich was taken into custody in Medicine Hat, Alta., on Monday after
> Ottawa police issued a Canada-wide warrant for her arrest. She was
> brought back to the nation's capital and made a brief court appearance
> Thursday.
>
> Crown prosecutor Moiz Karimjee requested a full day for a bail
> hearing, which is scheduled to take place on July 5.
>
> Lich remains in custody as several groups — most of which formed out
> of the Freedom Convoy — are planning protests in Ottawa starting on
> July 1 and continuing throughout the summer.
>
> She appeared on video from an Ottawa police cell, wearing a grey
> sweatshirt with the words "Freedom Over Fear" printed on it.
>
> Tamara Lich admits accepting award is related to Freedom Convoy in
> fiery day in court
>
> Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich arrested in Alberta, accused of
> breaching bail conditions
>
> Eric Granger, Lich's defence lawyer, said July 5 was the earliest date
> available.
>
> "The only new charge she's been arrested on is a single charge of
> breaching a single bail condition, [she] will be on her ninth day in
> custody since her arrest before she even gets the opportunity to
> regain her liberty," he wrote in an email to CBC.
>
> Lich faces charges of mischief, counselling mischief, obstructing
> police, counselling to obstruct police, counselling intimidation, and
> intimidation by blocking and obstructing one or more highways in
> relation to the protest.
>
> The anti-COVID-19-mandate protest shut down some areas of Ottawa for
> three weeks as participants parked trucks and other vehicles on city
> streets, blocking access to neighbourhoods and main arteries around
> Parliament Hill.
> Released in March
>
> Lich was arrested on Feb. 17 and spent about 18 days at the
> Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre before she was released on bail in
> March on conditions which include staying off social media.
>
> She was subjected to a bail review last month, but prosecutors were
> unsuccessful in trying to have her brought back into custody for
> allegedly violating her bail condition that she not support anything
> related to the Freedom Convoy.
>
> Lich also cannot organize any kind of protest and is not allowed to
> contact several of the other convoy leaders, including Tom Marazzo,
> unless in the presence of counsel.
>
> While it's not yet clear which bail conditions she is accused of
> breaching, there was speculation online that Lich might be in legal
> trouble over a Facebook photo that shows her beside Marazzo at an
> awards ceremony in Toronto on June 16 put on by the Justice Centre for
> Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a legal organization and registered
> charity based in Calgary.
>
> Tamara Lich, fourth from the left, was ordered by a judge to have no
> contact with fellow convoy organizer Tom Marazzo, second from the
> right. This photo shows the group in Toronto after Lich accepted her
> freedom award from the JCCF. (Facebook/Stacey Kauder )
>
> Friends of the two convoy organizers speculated on social media that
> Lich was allowed to have contact with Marazzo at the event because
> lawyers for the JCCF, who also represent Lich in her civil matters,
> were present.
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Dan Taekema
>
> Reporter
>
> Dan Taekema is a reporter with CBC Ottawa. He has worked for CBC News
> in Hamilton, Windsor and Toronto and for newspapers across southern
> Ontario. You can reach him by emailing daniel.taekema@cbc.ca.
>
> Follow @DanTaekema on Twitter
>
> With files from Meghan Grant, Kristy Nease and David Fraser
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>
> On 6/29/22, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:52:46 -0300
>> Subject: YO Lawrence Greenspon I called again about your client Madame
>> Lich and attempted to speak with Eric Granger Correct?
>> To: lawrence@gghlawyers.ca, "david.fraser"
>> <david.fraser@mcinnescooper.co
>> premier@ontario.ca, stefanos.karatopis@gmail.com,
>> sheilagunnreid@gmail.com, eric@gghlawyers.ca, "Marco.Mendicino"
>> <Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, pm
>> <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford" <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>,
>> "Candice.Bergen" <Candice.Bergen@parl.gc.ca>,
>> natasha.calvinho@gmail.com, Moiz.Karimjee@ontario.ca, "Brenda.Lucki"
>> <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Bill.Hogan" <Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>,
>> "Mark.Blakely" <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Mike.Comeau"
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>> <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>
>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
>> livefromtheshed2022@gmail.com, meghan.grant@cbc.ca,
>> lexharvey@thestar.ca, darren.major@cbc.ca, blilley@postmedia.com,
>> brigitte.bureau@radio-canada.c
>>
>> https://gghlawyers.ca/who-we-a
>>
>> "Eric Granger is a criminal defence lawyer who focusses on defending
>> the little guy against the coercive power of the state. He represents
>> clients at all stages of the criminal process, from bail hearings to
>> trials to appeals."
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> Tamara Lich Arrested in Alberta
>> 22,817 views
>> Streamed live on Jun 28, 2022
>> Live From The Shed
>> 36.9K subscribers
>> Tamara Lich has been arrested again after the RCMP issued a nation
>> wide warrant for breaching her release order.
>>
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada
>>
>> Freedom convoy leader Tamara Lich arrested in Alberta, accused of
>> breaching bail conditions
>> Lich told her lawyer she is expecting to be transported to Ontario in
>> the next week
>>
>> Meghan Grant · CBC News · Posted: Jun 27, 2022 7:52 PM MT
>>
>> Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich has been re-arrested. She is
>> accused of breaching her release conditions and has been taken into
>> custody in Medicine Hat, Alta., according to one of her lawyers.
>> (Frédéric Pepin/Radio-Canada)
>>
>> Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich has been re-arrested in Medicine
>> Hat, Alta., for breaching her bail conditions, her lawyers have
>> confirmed.
>>
>> Lich was taken into custody Monday evening, according to Keith Wilson,
>> who represents Lich on her non-criminal cases including a lawsuit.
>>
>> Wilson, who spoke with Lich after her arrest, says she expects to be
>> transported back to Ottawa in the next week.
>>
>> Eric Granger, who is one of Lich's criminal defence lawyers also
>> confirmed Lich's arrest.
>>
>> Granger says he has no reason to believe his client has done anything
>> wrong and is "looking to learn more at this stage."
>>
>> Tamara Lich admits accepting award is related to Freedom Convoy in
>> fiery day in court
>>
>> Governments, police, convoy organizers granted standing on inquiry
>> into use of Emergencies Act
>>
>> "Based on everything we knew, she's been diligently complying with all
>> of her bail conditions as was noted by the judge at her recent bail
>> review.
>>
>> While it's not yet clear which bail conditions she is accused of
>> breaching, there is speculation on social media that Lich might be in
>> legal trouble over a Facebook photo that shows her beside a fellow
>> convoy organizer who she was ordered to stay away from by a judge.
>> Canada-wide warrant
>>
>> Lich faces charges of mischief, counselling mischief, obstructing
>> police, counselling to obstruct police, counselling intimidation and
>> intimidation by blocking and obstructing one or more highways for her
>> role as one of the organizers of the protest that shut down much of
>> downtown Ottawa earlier this year.
>>
>> RCMP confirmed Lich was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for breaching
>> her release order but did not have further information as the arrest
>> falls within the jurisdiction of the Medicine Hat Police Service
>> (MHPS).
>>
>> The MHPS says it will not release information until Tuesday morning.
>> WATCH | Supporters cheer Tamara Lich as she is released from jail last
>> winter:
>> Convoy organizer Tamara Lich released from jail
>> 4 months ago
>> Duration 1:11
>> Tamara Lich, one of the organizers of the weeks-long occupation in
>> downtown Ottawa, was released from jail on Monday with the condition
>> that she leave Ottawa. Lich was arrested Feb. 17 and charged with
>> counselling to commit mischief.
>>
>> The anti-COVID-19 restriction blockades gridlocked Ottawa for three
>> weeks last winter as protesters parked trucks that blocked
>> neighbourhood access and main arteries around Parliament Hill.
>>
>> After her arrest, Lich was released on bail in March on conditions
>> which include staying off social media. She cannot organize any kind
>> of protest and she is also not permitted to contact several of the
>> other convoy leaders, including Tom Marazzo, an ex-military officer,
>> who also had a failed bid as an Ontario MPP candidate.
>>
>> Lich was subject to a bail review last month where prosecutors
>> unsuccessfully sought to have her taken back into custody for
>> allegedly violating her bail condition that she not support anything
>> related to the Freedom Convoy.
>>
>> Weeks after she was granted release in March, Lich was notified she'd
>> been selected as a recipient of a freedom award, handed out by the
>> Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a legal
>> organization and registered charity based in Calgary.
>>
>> Tamara Lich, fourth from the left, was ordered by a judge to have no
>> contact with fellow convoy organizer Tom Marazzo, who is tagged as
>> being second from the right. This photo shows the group in Toronto
>> after Lich accepted her freedom award from the JCCF. (Facebook/Stacey
>> Kauder )
>>
>> The awards ceremony took place on June 16 in Toronto.
>>
>> The Ottawa judge ruled he would not revoke Lich's bail and instead,
>> varied her conditions to allow travel to Ontario with a restriction
>> that she be banned from entering the capital's downtown core.
>>
>> Lich's reasoning for wanting to travel back to Ottawa is protected by
>> a court-ordered publication ban and cannot be reported.
>>
>> But on June 17, the day after the freedom awards were presented,
>> Stacey Kauder, who describes Lich as a friend, posted a photo to her
>> Facebook page showing Lich with her husband and four other attendees
>> at the JCCF gala.
>>
>> To Lich's left is a man identified as Marazzo, a fellow convoy
>> organizer, who she was ordered to have no contact with unless her
>> lawyer is present.
>>
>> Friends of the two convoy organizers speculated on social media that
>> Lich was allowed to have contact with Marazzo at the event because
>> there were lawyers for the JCCF present who also represent Lich in her
>> civil matters.
>> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
>> Meghan Grant
>>
>> CBC Calgary crime reporter
>>
>> Meghan Grant is a justice affairs reporter. She has been covering
>> courts, crime and stories of police accountability in southern Alberta
>> for more than a decade. Send Meghan a story tip at meghan.grant@cbc.ca
>> or follow her on Twitter.
>> Follow her on Twitter
>>
>> With files from Paula Duhatschek and David Fraser
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi
>>
>>
>> Governments, police, convoy organizers granted standing on inquiry
>> into use of Emergencies Act
>>
>> Individual protesters and federal Conservative party denied standing
>> by commissioner
>>
>> Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Jun 27, 2022 10:26 PM ET
>>
>> Police officers push back protesters in front of the Senate of Canada
>> Building in February, following the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
>> (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
>>
>> Governments of all three levels, convoy organizers and police have
>> been granted standing in the public inquiry looking into the
>> invocation of the federal Emergencies Act, but the federal
>> Conservative Party and a number of individuals who had their bank
>> accounts frozen have been left out.
>>
>> Granting groups or individuals standing allows them certain privileges
>> in the inquiry process, including the ability to suggest witnesses or
>> cross-examine them. It also means they are given advance notice on
>> documents being submitted into evidence.
>>
>> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the act on Feb. 14 — for the
>> first time in Canada's history — during the Freedom Convoy. The act
>> gave the federal government temporary powers to deal with the
>> anti-COVID-19 restriction blockades that gridlocked Ottawa for three
>> weeks last winter as protesters parked trucks that blocked
>> neighbourhood access and main arteries around Parliament Hill.
>>
>> Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich arrested in Alberta, accused of
>> breaching bail conditions
>>
>> Trudeau calls public inquiry into use of Emergencies Act during
>> convoy protests
>>
>> Paul Rouleau, the commissioner heading the inquiry, wrote in his
>> decision that the deadline to submit the inquiry report weighed on his
>> final determination.
>>
>> "I must keep in mind the practical realities facing the commission,
>> including the strict timeline in which to complete the Inquiry,"
>> Rouleau wrote.
>>
>> The federal government, the governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta
>> have been granted full standing, while the government of Manitoba will
>> be allowed to enter written submissions.
>>
>> Key convoy organizers including Tamara Lich, Tom Marazzo, Chris Barber
>> and Daniel Bulford have been granted full standing.
>>
>> "Their contributions to the work of the commission are necessary, as
>> they are uniquely situated to offer information to the commission and
>> give firsthand evidence as to the goals and organization of the
>> convoy," Rouleau wrote of the organizers.
>>
>> The Ottawa Police Service has been granted full standing, while its
>> former chief Peter Sloly will be allowed to produce documents and
>> examine witnesses.
>>
>> The cities of Ottawa and Windsor have also been granted standing.
>>
>> Protesters form a blockade in front of the Ambassador Bridge in
>> Windsor, Ont., which links the city to Michigan. (Darrin Di Carlo/CBC)
>> Conservatives, individual participants denied
>>
>> The federal Conservative Party and individual protesters are some
>> notable exclusions in Rouleau's decision.
>>
>> In his dismissal of the Conservatives, Rouleau pointed to the
>> parliamentary committee reviewing the use of the act and said the
>> inquiry needs to remain above the political fray.
>>
>> "The political process that involves elected representatives from the
>> various parties has a role to play in how the use of the Emergencies
>> Act is reviewed and assessed," Rouleau said.
>>
>> "There is also an important role for an independent non-partisan
>> process. Both ought to operate independently from one another."
>>
>> A number of individual protesters, including some who had their bank
>> accounts frozen, were also denied standing in the inquiry.
>>
>> Rouleau reasoned that individual protesters would have limited
>> perspective on what unfolded earlier this year.
>>
>> "By and large, their contribution would be limited to what they saw,
>> heard or experienced from their particular vantage point as a
>> participant or supporter of the convoy," Rouleau said, adding that
>> individuals will be able to have their voices heard during public
>> hearings.
>>
>> The commission's final report must be submitted by February 2023.
>> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
>> Darren Major
>>
>> CBC journalist
>>
>> Darren Major can be reached via email darren.major@cbc.ca or by
>> tweeting him @DMajJourno.
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.thestar.com/news/c
>>
>>
>> ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Tamara Lich to appear in Ottawa court
>> Wednesday after arrest in Alberta
>> Lich has been arrested in Alberta in relation to her court conditions,
>> Ottawa police said Tuesday
>> Lex Harvey
>> By Lex Harvey
>> Politics Reporter
>> Tue., June 28, 2022
>>
>> Tamara Lich delivers a statement during a February news conference in
>> Ottawa.
>>
>> Tamara Lich, one of the best-known faces of the so-called Freedom
>> Convoy, will appear before a judge in Ottawa on Wednesday after being
>> arrested in Alberta for allegedly breaching her bail conditions.
>>
>> Medicine Hat police say they arrested Lich in her hometown Monday on
>> the basis of a search warrant that originated in Ontario for one count
>> of failure to comply with a release order.
>>
>> Lich appeared in Medicine Hat court Tuesday morning and will be
>> transported to Ottawa, police said.
>>
>> Lich has, along with fellow protest organizer Chris Barber, been
>> facing charges of mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to
>> commit mischief and intimidation, for her role in organizing the
>> massive protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for more than three
>> weeks in February.
>>
>> After a judge initially denied her bail, Lich was released in March
>> with a long list of conditions, including a ban from all social media
>> and an order not to “support anything related to the Freedom Convoy.”
>>
>> In an email to the Star, Eric Granger, Lich’s criminal lawyer, said
>> Tuesday, “Only very limited information is available” on the arrest.
>>
>> “Given that Ms. Lich continues to have no criminal record and her
>> strong performance on bail was noted by the judge at her recent bail
>> review where the judge removed some of the conditions that had been
>> previously imposed, we look forward to learning more as information
>> becomes available so that we can determine the appropriate next steps
>> to be taken in Ms. Lich’s defence.”
>>
>> In May, an Ontario judge ruled Lich could remain on bail until her
>> trial after a Crown prosecutor argued she’d violated one of her bail
>> conditions by agreeing to accept a “freedom” award handed out by
>> Calgary-based organization the Justice Centre for Constitutional
>> Freedoms.
>>
>> Ontario Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips said Lich had followed
>> her bail conditions and already had a “taste of jail,” which made her
>> less likely to reoffend.
>>
>> Phillips changed Lich’s release conditions to allow her to visit
>> Ottawa, but not the downtown core. He kept the ban on Lich’s access to
>> social media.
>>
>> With files from Omar Mosleh, Alex Boyd
>>
>>
>>
>> https://torontosun.com/opinion
>>
>>
>> LILLEY: Tamara Lich nabbed for breach of bail while repeat violent
>> offenders use revolving door of court system
>> Author of the article:
>> Brian Lilley
>> Publishing date:
>> Jun 28, 2022
>>
>> Accused Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is retaining the services
>> of high-powered Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon. Accused Freedom
>> Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is retaining the services of high-powered
>> Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon. jpg
>>
>> We can’t have dangerous people like her taking photographs with other
>> dangerous people and posting them online.
>>
>> If we let that keep happening, chaos might ensue.
>>
>> Lich was arrested again on Monday in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and is
>> expected to be transported to Ottawa within the next week for
>> violating her bail conditions. On Feb. 17, Lich was arrested and
>> charged with mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to
>> commit mischief and intimidation.
>>
>> Without downplaying the impact of the freedom convoy on residents of
>> Ottawa’s downtown core, those are hardly charges that would normally
>> see this kind of action by police and prosecutors. Lich has no prior
>> criminal record and has not been convicted of the charges she now
>> faces.
>>
>> Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is arrested by Ottawa Police on
>> Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. SUPPLIED PHOTO
>>
>> Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is arrested by Ottawa Police on
>> Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. SUPPLIED PHOTO
>>
>> Yet depending on who you listen to, police have either arrested her
>> for being critical of the government – not something that should get
>> anyone arrested – or for being photographed at an event in Toronto
>> with another convoy organizer.
>>
>> At this point, forgive me for laughing at the idea that either of
>> these are considered bail violations. If we had a justice system in
>> Canada that picked up everyone who broke bail conditions, then I might
>> be prone to saying, that as a law-and-order kind of guy, I could
>> support Lich being detained.
>>
>> That’s not who we are though, and our system continues to release
>> violent repeat offenders on bail with no regard for community safety.
>> On Monday, I was at a news conference with Ontario Premier Doug Ford
>> and Toronto Mayor John Tory where they lamented repeat offenders for
>> gun crimes being out on bail to reoffend.
>>
>> “Chief Ramer, or before him Chief Saunders, could tell you of many
>> instances, not just one, where people are getting out on bail for
>> example, over and over and over again, when they’re charged with
>> firearms offenses, and that simply has to be changed,” Tory said when
>> discussing the recent spate of shootings in Toronto.
>>
>> Our paper has been full of such stories and will have more to come in
>> the future I’m sure, but police and prosecutors are worried about Lich
>> taking a photo with someone more than 400 kilometres away from
>> Parliament Hill.
>>
>> Just this week, Toronto Police were looking for a man in an assault
>> investigation saying the man was wanted on six counts of assault, two
>> counts of assault with a weapon, six counts of choking and six counts
>> of breach of probation among other charges. In another incident, two
>> men were charged in a robbery with robbery with a weapon, disguise
>> with intent, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and fail to
>> comply recognizance, which is police code for out on bail.
>>
>> Those are just two cases police revealed on Monday.
>>
>> One of the worst cases I’ve covered involved two men, both with bail
>> and court conditions upon them, accused of shooting up a child’s
>> birthday party last summer. Three children were injured from bullets
>> flying in that incident.
>>
>> Yet Tamara Lich is the real threat to society, not hardened, repeat
>> offenders who shoot up streets, commit robberies or repeatedly assault
>> people over several months. Our justice system is not supposed to be
>> political, but whether we’re talking about the Lich case or the recent
>> revelations that Justin Trudeau’s government interfered in the
>> investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting, it’s clear we have a
>> government intent on making justice political.
>>
>> Seems Lady Justice is peeking out from under her blind to see who is
>> before her before deciding whether to enforce bail conditions.
>>
>> blilley@postmedia.com
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada
>>
>>
>> 'It's intimidation': Judge faces threats after Freedom Convoy hearings
>> 'You feel vulnerable in your house, in your own home,' judge tells
>> Radio-Canada
>>
>> Brigitte Bureau · CBC News · Posted: Jun 29, 2022 4:00 AM ET
>>
>>
>> Protesters gather on Parliament Hill on Jan. 29, 2022, during the
>> 'Freedom Convoy' and three-week occupation of downtown Ottawa. (Adrian
>> Wyld/Canadian Press)
>>
>> One of the judges who presided over the court hearings of Freedom
>> Convoy organizers is speaking out after receiving threats considered
>> serious enough to require police intervention, according to
>> information obtained by Radio-Canada and CBC.
>>
>> The judge in question confirmed that supporters of the convoy from
>> Canada and the United States sent several offensive messages, but the
>> message that prompted police to react threatened their physical
>> safety, the judge said.
>>
>> It's intimidation. It's trying to influence a court decision, and
>> that's serious.
>>
>> - Judge who is not being identified due to safety concerns
>>
>> CBC has agreed to withhold the judge's identity to protect their safety.
>>
>> "I thought, should I tell my children not to come home for a while?"
>> the judge said.
>>
>> "I changed my alarm system. I was advised not to take the same route
>> every day," the judge added. "You feel vulnerable in your house, in
>> your own home."
>>
>> Police enforce an injunction against protesters on Parliament Hill on
>> Feb. 19, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
>>
>> The judge believes most Canadians respect the justice system, but said
>> a vocal minority is seeking to undermine it.
>>
>> "It's intimidation. It's trying to influence a court decision, and
>> that's serious," the judge said.
>>
>> Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner expressed similar
>> concerns in a recent speech in Montreal.
>>
>> Tamara Lich isn't going back to jail and is now allowed to visit
>> Ottawa
>>
>> In jail for more than 100 days, Pat King 'beat down,' says supporter
>>
>> "The pandemic has forced many people to live online during lockdowns.
>> And it is at times like these that lies and conspiracies spread like
>> wildfire," Wagner said in French on June 9.
>>
>> "As we have seen around the world, disinformation poses a real threat
>> to democratic institutions."
>>
>> The demonstrations that took place in Ottawa this winter stemmed in
>> part from this disinformation, Wagner said. He encouraged people to
>> "inform, instruct and educate" their fellow citizens.
>>
>> Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Richard Wagner, pictured
>> here at a news conference in 2021, warned in a recent speech that
>> 'disinformation poses a real threat to democratic institutions.'
>> (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)
>> Ministry silent on further threats
>>
>> Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General would not say if any other
>> judges have received threats from Freedom Convoy supporters.
>>
>> "It would be inappropriate for the ministry to comment on a potential
>> or ongoing police investigation," wrote ministry spokesperson Brian
>> Gray in an email to Radio-Canada.
>>
>> MPs describe threats, safety fears as they're issued panic buttons
>>
>> Ottawa police say they're ready to shut down Canada Day occupation
>> attempts
>>
>> CPC MPs meet with Freedom Convoy organizers
>>
>> He wrote that the ministry "takes court security and the safety of all
>> those in our courthouses ... very seriously," and that local police or
>> Ontario Provincial Police provide security "to ensure the highest
>> level of protection."
>>
>> The Ontario Court of Justice and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
>> both declined to comment, saying it would be inappropriate to do so.
>>
>> CBC News reached out to a number of key figures of the weeks-long
>> demonstration in Ottawa, but requests for comment were either declined
>> or went unanswered.
>>
>> No charges have been laid in this matter. It's not known whether the
>> investigation is ongoing at this time, and police would not comment.
>>
>> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
>> Brigitte Bureau
>>
>> Brigitte Bureau is an award-winning investigative reporter with
>> Radio-Canada.
>>
>> With files from Joseph Tunney
>>
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 15:54:33 -0300
>> Subject: YO Lawrence Greenspon I just called again and your assistant
>> told me that you were not working for Madame Lich for free Correct?
>> To: lawrence@gghlawyers.ca, "david.fraser"
>> <david.fraser@mcinnescooper.co
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.co
>> stefanos.karatopis@gmail.com, sheilagunnreid@gmail.com
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada
>> Lawrence Greenspon won't say if he is being paid to represent Lich
>> 'Everybody has a right to be represented under the law,' Lawrence
>> Greenspon
>> says
>>
>> David Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Apr 12, 2022 5:20 PM ET
>>
>>
>> Tamara Lich appears at her bail hearing in Ottawa March 7, 2022, as
>> Justice John Johnston looks on. (Alexandra Newbould/The Canadian
>> Press)
>>
>> The lawyer representing convoy leader Tamara Lich says his latest
>> high-profile client deserves to be well-represented, but Lawrence
>> Greenspon won't disclose whether he is being paid or took the case for
>> free.
>>
>> Lich, who was behind fundraising efforts that raised more than $10
>> million to support the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, is charged
>> jointly with Chris Barber with mischief, counselling mischief,
>> obstructing police, counselling to obstruct police, counselling
>> intimidation, and intimidation by blocking and obstructing one or more
>> highways.
>>
>> She joins a handful of high-profile Greenspon clients. He has
>> previously represented Mohammad Momin Khawaja, the first Canadian
>> charged under Canada's Anti-terrorism Act, as well as former senator
>> Mike Duffy.
>>
>> "Some of the people that have contacted me are well aware of the fact
>> that in the past I've represented alleged terrorists and murderers and
>> people charged with sexual assault. That, I guess, in their minds is
>> OK," Greenspon said.
>>
>> 'The reaction from strangers has been — I'm disappointed because you
>> were this, that and the other in our community and I don't put that
>> together with you representing Tamara Lich,' says Lawrence Greenspon.
>> (Alistair Steele/CBC)
>>
>> "But representing Tamara Lich who has no criminal record, is not
>> charged with any violent offence, there's no weapons involved, there's
>> no sexual assault — they seem to have a problem with that."
>>
>> He said he swore an oath to zealously defend a person whose liberty is at
>> stake.
>>
>> "I don't have any difficulty at all in representing Tamara Lich. It
>> doesn't mean that I agree with anything she did or didn't do. But it
>> does mean that she's entitled to representation when her liberty's at
>> stake," he said.
>>
>> Lich was arrested Feb. 17, denied bail, but then released on March 7
>> on the condition she leave Ottawa within 24 hours, refrain from using
>> social media and have no contact with certain co-organizers.
>>
>> Everybody has a right to be represented under the law.
>>
>> — Lawrence Greenspon
>>
>> Diane Magas had been representing Barber and Lich, but is now just
>> representing Barber.
>>
>> Greenspon is expected to challenge the conditions of Lich's bail,
>> particularly as it applies to her use of social media.
>>
>> "The reaction from friends has been, 'I'm not surprised, she's going
>> to be well represented.' The reaction from strangers has been, 'I'm
>> disappointed because you were this, that and the other in our
>> community and I don't put that together with you representing Tamara
>> Lich,'" he said.
>>
>> "It's those individuals that really need to understand what the role
>> of defence counsel is and how important it is that everybody has a
>> right to be represented under the law."
>> Worked in oil and gas
>>
>> Lich worked in the oil and gas sector in Alberta from 2017 until she
>> was laid off in March 2020 "due to closures related to COVID-19,"
>> according to a sworn affidavit made by her March 2.
>>
>> She and her husband moved to Harrison Park, Man., for work after he
>> was laid off, but by November 2021 they were back in Alberta and
>> working again.
>>
>> She used five weeks of vacation time to come to Ottawa, where she was
>> considered a key figure in the protests against COVID-19 health
>> measures, according to the affidavit.
>>
>> In her affidavit, she said she would return to work following her
>> release on bail.
>> Raised millions for convoy
>>
>> In a separate affidavit filed in court related to a proposed class
>> action suit against her and others, Lich said she was involved in the
>> creation of the crowdfunding campaign for the Freedom Convoy on the
>> GoFundMe platform.
>>
>> Lich delivers a statement during a news conference in Ottawa,
>> Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
>>
>> She said she used a personal TD bank account, which had no balance, as
>> the designated account to hold donated funds.
>>
>> An email address was set up to accept donations, which also went into
>> a personal account belonging to her. At the time, she was the only
>> person with access to the donations.
>>
>> When GoFundMe released $1 million of donated funds on Feb. 2, it did
>> so into Lich's personal account she designated for the protest.
>>
>> Two days after sending her $1 million, GoFundMe said it closed the
>> campaign, citing violations of its rules on violence and harassment,
>> with all remaining donations being returned directly to individual
>> donors.
>>
>> Lich said that the same day she received the GoFundMe money, a "hold"
>> was placed on her account associated with the Freedom Convoy. She said
>> the bank didn't prevent money from being deposited into the account,
>> but funds could not be withdrawn.
>>
>> While she had access to the money provided by GoFundMe, Lich said she
>> completed approximately $26,000 in transactions.
>>
>> She spent $13,000 on bulk fuel purchases and another $13,000 was
>> "withdrawn in cash and utilized for various purposes," she said in her
>> affidavit.
>>
>> With files from Ashley Burke
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
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Freedom Convoy organizer seeks ‘political asylum’ in the U.S.
James Bauder was accused of leading an insurrection against Ottawa, suggesting a committee of Canadians, including Senators and the Governor General, could revoke COVID-19 health rules.
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While Canadians celebrated Canada Day, a Freedom Convoy organizer was alone in a U.S. RV park with two puppies.
“I’m living in the middle of nowhere,” James Bauder told Press Progress on June 30. “I’m by myself. There’s me, myself and my dogs.”
Bauder faces multiple criminal charges in Ottawa, including mischief, intimidation, obstructing an officer, and two counts of counselling to commit indictable offences, stemming from his involvement in the Freedom Convoy. His trial is scheduled for late this year.
Despite receiving pro bono legal representation from The Democracy Fund (TDF)—a civil liberties charity defending Canadians facing state overreach—Bauder told Press Progress he believes his chances of avoiding prison are “slim,” citing the recent convictions of fellow convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich.
Bauder described the emotional toll: “You’re praying and watching others get steamrolled in court… then your lawyer calls with the news—‘There’s nothing we can do. You’re going to jail.’”
Rebel News contacted TDF for clarification. While the charity declined to endorse Bauder’s bleak assessment, it reiterated its commitment to “zealously defend our client using every available defence.”
Bauder maintains his innocence, alleging the charges against him amount to a “political prosecution” by the federal government. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years behind bars.
In a last-ditch effort to avoid trial in Ottawa, Bauder has sought political asylum in the United States. TDF's continued involvement in his criminal case has been confirmed, but not for his asylum bid.
Bauder’s 2023 request to move his trial from Ottawa to a smaller Ontario municipality was denied, leading him to claim political asylum as a last resort.
New York immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken has been retained by the freedom advocate, calling it “very winnable… a case of a lifetime” with potential to set a legal precedent.
Bauder, co-author of the convoy's "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU), earlier suggested an unelected committee of convoy leaders, influencers, Senators, and the Governor General could revoke COVID-19 health rules, though the MOU was withdrawn during the 2022 freedom movement.
Bauder denied the insurrection premise but apologized to Canadians. “I humbly, humbly apologize,” the organizer said. “We’re not lawyers,” he stressed. “Three truck drivers wrote the darn thing.”
Kolken confirmed Bauder is formally applying for asylum under section 208 of the US Immigration and Nationality Act. "Any alien who is physically present… or who arrives in the United States … irrespective of … status, may apply for asylum," he told Press Progress.
The convoy organizer published his $9,500 USD retainer to Kolkin Law on his GiveSendGo page, estimating his legal fees will exceed $30,000 USD.
“The total cost to cover my legal bill is an estimated $30 000 USD, which is why I am swallowing my pride and asking for help,” he writes. “If I had the funds to cover my legal costs, I wouldn't be asking anyone for help.”
The convoy organizer has so far received $3,430 USD. “I [am] sincerely humbled and grateful for everyone's support and prayers,” he said.
Awaiting asylum, Bauder remains out of the public eye, "laying low."
Bauder says that he often thinks of his wife, Sandra, and his former simple life. “I miss my wife,” he said. “I miss being able to sit in my chair at home and watch my big screen.”
“I miss the open road and the freedom of driving long-haul trucks … I miss being able to drive all over the place and see sunsets and sunrises, and see all the different scenery and the beauty, and being able to have that life with my wife as my partner there beside me.”
Bolstered by President Trump's return to power, Bauder noted that Trump previously backed the Freedom Convoy and promised to be with us "to the very end." He remains hopeful, despite the hurdles ahead.
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Convoy organizer James Bauder's trial adjourned until asylum application heard in U.S.
Bauder said he fled to the U.S. earlier this summer and filed an asylum application on Aug. 5.
A trial for one of the organizers of the convoy protest in Ottawa was adjourned on Monday after the judge decided to wait for his asylum application to be heard in United States federal court.
James Bauder, a 55-year-old from Calgary, was charged with mischief to obstruct property, disobeying a lawful court order and obstructing/restricting a peace officer in February 2022.
According to his social media posts, he fled to the U.S. earlier this summer and filed an asylum application on Aug. 5, claiming he is being politically persecuted. He is also raising money for his legal fees — his GiveSendGo campaign has raised US$15,700 as of Nov. 10.
A Canada-wide warrant was issued in August after he failed to appear in court multiple times after Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips issued a summons to appear.
Defence counsel has repeatedly told the court in the past that the matter should be adjourned until Bauder’s asylum application could be heard, or the charges should be stayed.
Bauder maintains that he will not be going back to Canada, and has previously urged his supporters to send letters to U.S. President Donald Trump to intervene in his asylum application.
A new trial date has not been set.
Other key figures in the convoy, like Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, were given conditional sentences in October after they were convicted of mischief earlier this year. Pat King was given a three-month conditional sentence in February after he was found guilty on five out of nine charges, including mischief and disobeying a court order.
Convoy figure seeking U.S. asylum wanted on Canada-wide warrant
James Bauder missed a court date in Ottawa earlier this week, claims he's victim of political persecution
Convoy organizer seeking asylum in United StatesA key figure in the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" who's seeking asylum in the United States is being sought on a Canada-wide warrant after he failed to appear in court in Ottawa to face criminal charges for his role in the protest.
James Bauder, who left Canada this summer, is facing charges including mischief and intimidation. He claims he's being politically persecuted and said he's raised nearly $13,000 online to cover his legal fees.
Earlier this week, Bauder missed a Superior Court date in Ottawa, prompting a judge to order his arrest.
During the public commission investigating the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end the 2022 protest, Bauder said he helped lead a smaller convoy to Ottawa in 2021 to protest public health rules.
During that trip, he delivered a "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) to the Senate and the governor general. It demanded the cancellation of COVID-19 measures and for then prime minister Justin Trudeau to step down for "committing treason and crimes against humanity."
Bauder was soon communicating online with other convoy leaders including Pat King, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, and by January 2022 they were on their way to Ottawa.
'Political persecution' argument rejected
Bauder, a resident of Calgary before he fled to the U.S., has argued he's the victim of "political persecution" and tried to have his court case moved from Ottawa to Brockville or North Bay, Ont.
"I believe that I will not get a fair trial in Ottawa because I participated in a very high-profile, highly politicized, lawful protest directed at the federal government in Ottawa," he said during a February 2023 hearing, adding the city is full of government employees who are "not my peers."
That bid was rejected when a Superior Court justice told Bauder it was "baseless in fact and boils down to his concern that most Ottawa residents do not share his political views."
The Crown maintains there has been no political persecution in Bauder's case, and the judge overseeing the matter has been adamant the Superior Court is unbiased.
Bauder is also named in a class action by Ottawa residents seeking millions in damages over the 2022 protest and three-week takeover of the city's downtown.
Since he has been in the United States, Bauder has appeared at events and done interviews with affiliates of Donald Trump including MAGA influencers Roger Stone and Wayne Allyn Root, who vowed to personally deliver Bauder's asylum claim to the president.
Bauder's trial is scheduled for three weeks in November and December. Other key convoy protest figures including Tamara Lich, Chris Barber and Pat King have been found guilty for their roles in the 2022 protest.
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Sudbury police defend BLM mural
Service says anyone who defaces it will be charged; critic who threatened to paint over it later apologizes
A mural celebrating diversity and inclusivity has drawn the ire of some members of the community, as well as the attentions of the Greater Sudbury Police Service.
Drawing on the efforts of their counterparts from around the world, Black Lives Matter Sudbury painted a large mural on Elgin Street on Sunday, as a way to raise awareness of marginalized voices and to nurture a more inclusive community.
“Following the various protests and demonstrations of the Black Lives Matter movement, various cities around the world began to paint large ground murals to offer more visibility to the movement, as well as to show their support,” the group wrote in a release. “Large urban centers such as Montreal, London (UK) and New York City have painted large letters on a busy street or pedestrian walkway with this very message: Black Lives Matter; however, these minority groups are also present in smaller, more rural communities, such as Sudbury.”
The mural, reading BIPOC Lives Matter (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) in English and French, also features the colours of the Indigenous medicine wheel, the Pride flag, the trans flag, the pan-African flag and the BLM colours. It is located in front of the Laughing Buddha and the Townehouse Tavern, along a busy stretch of Elgin Street with clear visibility.
“The aforementioned minority groups are often discriminated against and made invisible in small northern communities where they are already small to begin with,” the group continued. “This project aims to ensure that these groups are made visible and to raise awareness to the issues surrounding them in the Greater Sudbury area.”
But not everyone was on board with the mural.
Jason LaFaci, who names himself president of Anonymous Knights Canada and operations co-ordinator for various other Anonymous groups, said Monday night he planned to paint over the mural.
“So this weekend I’m going out to volunteer and contribute my time to City of Greater Sudbury’s downtown beautification program,” he wrote on Facebook. “I’m going to purchase the paint needed to paint over Sudbury BLM’s vandalism on Elgin Street. Anyone who would like to volunteer with me, please get in touch with me.”
LaFaci got some support from some community members, as evidenced by the comments on his post.
But the Greater Sudbury Police Service took note and said Tuesday enough is enough. They said they will not stand for the defacement of the mural.
“We are aware that individuals have posted messages on social media indicating their intention to cause damage to the BIPOC Lives Matter mural on Elgin Street,” the police force wrote on Facebook. “This mural was created with the approval of the City of Greater Sudbury and is lawfully on display. As such, damaging it does constitute a criminal offence and may result in criminal charges.”
The police service said they had initiated an investigation and they “strongly stand against any actions rooted in racism or hatred.” They said charges would be laid against those who attempt to deface the mural.
“We strongly urge anyone considering any participation in the removal or destruction of the BIPOC Lives Matter mural to refrain from doing so as this could result in criminal charges. Please note that the premises are monitored 24/7 by Lion’s Eye in the Sky surveillance cameras,” the force noted. “We are dedicated to protecting and serving this community as we continue having respectful dialogues to build public trust and transparency. Rooted in our RICH values of Respect, Inclusivity, Courage and Honesty, we are committed to working with community partners and community members to ensure BIPOC and all community members are treated with respect and dignity.”
LaFaci quickly quashed his plans and said late Tuesday morning he had decided against taking any action against the mural.
“I won’t be painting over the Sudbury BLM stuff. That idea is now in the wind,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, our city hall continues to play politics with peoples lives; they side with groups, which create unrest then call everyone else racist because we see it for what it truly is. Our city is now a cesspool for opiates, human trafficking and many other serious issues that are a concern for public safety — all of it is ignored by our community leaders.”
LaFaci said he had spoken with police and the mayor’s office and accused Mayor Brian Bigger of “caving into the lame demands” of Black Lives Matter Sudbury. He also inferred he plans to run for public office during the next election, which takes place in 2022.
“I was cautioned by the mayor’s office that they would use bylaw to have me charged if I clean up the BLM mess,” he wrote on Facebook. “City hall Sudbury, they don’t care about us; they don’t care about our kids’ safety; they don’t care about anything except themselves.”
LaFaci said he planned to file complaints with the provincial ombudsman against several members of council, including Ward 1 Coun. Mark Signoretti, Ward 4 Coun. Geoff McCausland, Bigger, Ward 5 Coun. Robert Kirwan and Ward 12 Coun. Joscelyne Landry-Altmann. But he did not specify the nature of his complaints.
“These people ignore the opiate epidemic and play politics with peoples’ lives,” he wrote. “If I win the next election, I promise to clean up city hall to the fullest extent and make past mayors, councils accountable. Time to clean up city hall.”
LaFaci also made a Facebook video on Tuesday afternoon, in which he apologized to BLM for threatening to paint over the mural.
“I should have researched a bit more what was going on in terms of the mission and why it was sanctioned by the city,” he said. “I apologize for my behaviour to the entire city for being rude to everyone and doing things that were just not cool.”
Black Lives Matter Sudbury said they are thankful to the community for “the incredible support we have received. Many community organizations and dedicated volunteers have made this project possible.”
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The following email can be found within this old blog
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---- Original Message -----
From: "McKnight, Gisele" McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.
To: lcampenella@ledger.com
Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.co
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
Subject: David Amos
Hello Lisa,
David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he became
an independent (not representing any political party) candidate in
our federal
election that was held June 28. He was a candidate in our constituency of
Fundy (now called Fundy-Royal).
I wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates. That
story appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story, written
by one of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report on
the candidates' debate held June 18.
As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the election.
The winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a photo
taken by reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the photo
that ran, but this one is very similar.
A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate 2.JPG
Gisele McKnight editor
Kings County Record
Sussex, New Brunswick
Canada
506-433-1070
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
other on their answers and criticizing eachothers' party leaders.
Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
abiding citizens."
The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You're out of touch," Armstrong
yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
anyplace," Armstrong responded.
As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
process for the June 28 vote.
Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
favourite possessions—motorcycles.
McKnight/KCR
The Unconventional Candidate
David Amos Isn't Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
By Gisele McKnight
FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
running for office in Canada.
One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
to meet Elections Canada requirements.
When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
favourite place to do so—Fundy.
Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
dissatisfaction with politicians.
"I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
needed to change his life.
"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
sometimes in midlife."
So Amos, who'd lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
Panhead motorcycle.
"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
for anything, but you take what they offer."
For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
and conversation all over North America.
Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
himself.
He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
"But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
"It's alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
"I didn't appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
call me. I'm not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
"I won't take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It's
not about money. It goes against what I'm fighting about."
What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm
death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
(NAFTA) out the window.
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
"There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
Don't necessarily vote for me, but vote."
Although…if you're going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
your X by his name.
"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
say, 'what the hell.'"
From: Drouin, Nathalie G <Nathalie.G.Drouin@pco-bcp.gc.ca>
Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Subject: Automatic reply: The "Peace-Man" returns to court in Ottawa on Monday Correct?
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When Convid started, I started to do a story. That story is ongoing. Many videos to be uploaded!
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https://davidraymondamos3.blog
Saturday 20 January 2024
Peace-Man returns to Ottawa
https://twitter.com/Danalee103
Trudeau Invoking the Emergency Act and Freeland defending her liberal democracy byway of her bankster buddies
If I could have 13 minutes of your time please.
We are ALL in this together!
No matter your label, this is not a Canada thing, It's a humanity thing.
Please share if you approve of this message.
No matter, I would love to hear what you have to say.
Especially if you are a Government official that has answers.
Peace-Man.ca
If the Courts, the Police agencies, CSIS and the Government have not
done their due diligence, (I can prove it) how can they find a man
standing in peace, promoting peace, guilty of a crime? Is this the
Canada you want? This is also a kind of an "ACCEPTABLE" docu-series
preview and was made in a hurry to bring awareness in the short time
to my trial.
I am not a professional videographer nor do I have all the tools for
how it should be shown.
None of the "Alternative media" is covering it or will cover it, nor will MSM.
Want to ask yourself why?
The subject matter is why! The hidden control is why!
Where has the logic gone?
A decade or more of documentation is what you may have not seen on why
I stood in protest. A methodical plan of sabotage made sure you have
not.
#takeastand #Holdourgovernmentsaccoutable
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Saturday 19 February 2022
Trudeau Invoking the Emergency Act and Freeland defending her liberal
democracy byway of her bankster buddies
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From: "St-Onge, Pascale - Députée" <pascale.st-onge@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 03:05:01 +0000
Subject: Réponse automatique : I trust that Higgy, Trudeau, Mendicino,
Blanchet, Singh and Andy Baby Fillmore know why I enjoyed what the ex
RCMP dude Rob Morrison just said in Paraiment
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 03:05:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: I trust that Higgy, Trudeau, Mendicino,
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Subject: Automatic reply: I trust that Higgy, Trudeau, Mendicino,
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Subject: Automatic reply: I trust that Higgy, Trudeau, Mendicino,
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:04:46 -0400
Subject: I trust that Higgy, Trudeau, Mendicino, Blanchet, Singh and
Andy Baby Fillmore know why I enjoyed what the ex RCMP dude Rob
Morrison just said in Paraiment
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 02:39:30 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE Trudeau Invoking the Emergency Act and
Freeland defending her liberal democracy byway of her bankster buddies
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:48:59 +0000
Subject: RE: RE Trudeau Invoking the Emergency Act and Freeland
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Baffled by the Chaos in Canada? So Are Canadians.
The protests seem to challenge the cherished image that Canadians are
moderate, rule-following and just plain nice. But was that really a
myth all along?
Protesters in downtown Ottawa this past weekend. “This is a
myth-busting moment,” one analyst said. Protesters in downtown
Ottawa this past weekend. “This is a myth-busting moment,” one analyst
said.Credit...Brett Gundlock for The New York Times
By Catherine Porter
Catherine Porter is a Canadian journalist who worked for 16 years at
the country’s largest newspaper before becoming Toronto bureau chief
for The Times. She has spent a week talking to protesters, police and
residents in Ottawa.
Feb. 14, 2022
[Follow our live coverage of the Ottawa Protests.]
OTTAWA — It seemed a classically Canadian moment in a scene otherwise
torn from the book of Trump America.
Between the intersection transformed into a mosh pit and the graceful
Parliament buildings cluttered with “fake news,” “the Great Resist”
and “Covid red pill” signs, a middle-aged man named Johnny Rowe
perched on a median last weekend with an amplifier and a simple
greeting.
“Welcome to Ottawa,” he called out to the hordes streaming down the
middle of the street, many hollering “freedom.” “Thank you for
coming.”
If the outside world is baffled by the scenes unfolding in the streets
of Canada, so are many Canadians. They are dumbfounded, perhaps none
more so than the government officials who have stood by largely
slack-jawed as giant trucks stake out ground in the normally placid
capital, shaking and honking at night as people cheer and dance,
neighbors be damned.
As demonstrations kept flaring, the government on Monday invoked the
Emergencies Act, which greatly increases the government’s power to
crack down on protest, and in Alberta the police arrested 11 people
and seized a large cache of weapons. Earlier, traffic resumed over the
Ambassador Bridge, a major international route blockaded for a week,
and officials announced that they were lifting some contentious
vaccine pass requirements.
The chaos of recent weeks has left many wondering if Canada is
witnessing the birth of a political alt-right, or if it is a
pandemic-induced tantrum that, once exhausted, will curl itself
asleep, leaving behind a country bewildered but essentially unchanged.
It could also be, some argue, that the so-called freedom convoy is not
an aberration at all but a mirror to an integral part of the country
that doesn’t fit the stereotype, and so is ignored.
Counterprotesters confronting a small convoy in Ottawa on
Sunday.Counterprotesters confronting a small convoy in Ottawa on
Sunday.Credit...Brett Gundlock for The New York Times
The unrest seems a rebuff to the cherished mythology imposed on
Canada’s citizens from abroad and held by many Canadians themselves as
moderate, rule-following, levelheaded — and just plain nice.
Start with the pervasive slogan of the unrest, scrawled across trucks,
hats, shirt and flags, an epithet startlingly vulgar by Canadian
standards that urges Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to go away. Some
say he should be not just deposed but imprisoned over the vaccine
regulations governments in Canada have passed.
The anger is new. Over the past two years of public health crisis,
Canadians have followed their classic playbook. Even right-leaning
provincial governments dutifully took their lead, for the most part,
from public health experts, passing strict pandemic rules that
citizens then followed.
Protesters warming themselves Sunday in Ottawa. Protesters warming
themselves Sunday in Ottawa.Credit...Brett Gundlock for The New York
Times
While there have been some mask protests, more outrage was directed at
local governments for not doing more to protect their citizens, and at
politicians who broke the rules. Wearing a mask, and getting the
vaccine, was deemed a basic act of civic solidarity. Canada has one of
the highest rates in the world, with more than 83 percent of the
population over the age of 5 having received at least two vaccine
doses.
“Let’s take care of each other in this time of need, Canada,” Mr.
Trudeau tweeted in March 2020, days after his wife showed symptoms and
he became the first G7 leader to self-isolate. “Because that’s really
who we are.”
Maybe it is because Canada, unlike the neighbor that overshadows it,
was born not from revolution but from negotiation that its approach to
rebellion now seems more than a little unconventional, even quirky.
But one thing is clear: The members of the so-called freedom convoy
are not bellowing “compromise” or “care for one another.”
The streets of downtown Ottawa echo with chants and slogans steeped in
the language of the American Revolution, right down to the Don’t Tread
on Me pennants. “Freedom,” yells a man in a red mask waving a Canadian
flag. “Freedom,” comes the ardent reply. Though the flag, it should be
noted, was held aloft in a quintessentially Canadian fashion, attached
to a hockey stick.
The streets of downtown Ottawa echo with chants and slogans steeped in
the language of the American Revolution. The streets of
downtown Ottawa echo with chants and slogans steeped in the language
of the American Revolution.Credit...Brett Gundlock for The New
York Times
The repeated invocation of liberty is just one reason — along with the
American, Confederate and Trump flags spotted in the mix — many
believe the unrest is essentially a U.S. import.
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For two years, Canadians have been largely stuck at home, and many
have spent more time in front of the screen than ever. As they did,
they absorbed the American culture war being played out from Fox News
to Breitbart, and Trumpian ideas took root in Canada, said Gerald
Butts, a longtime friend of Mr. Trudeau’s and his former top political
aide.
It was not just ideas.
Right-wing activists in the United States and elsewhere have lent more
than moral support to their new kindred spirits in Canada. They are
opening their wallets. At least some of the money that has allowed the
protesters to keep their trucks fueled and cover other expenses has
flowed in from untraceable sources on crowdfunding platforms and
cryptocurrencies.
Canadian political veterans have taken note.
“We ran the longest federal election campaign in history in 2015, and
we spent $42 million, right?” said Mr. Butts.
By comparison, in just a few weeks, the truckers raised about a quarter of that.
“One of the most concerning things about this movement,” Mr. Butts
said, “is it’s shown how easy it is to pour millions of dollars of
dark money into Canadian politics.”
The question now is how might that play out in the months and years ahead.
Traditionally, Canadian politics is a fight for the center, but
populism is not totally alien to the country.Traditionally, Canadian
politics is a fight for the center, but populism is not totally alien
to the country.Credit...Brett Gundlock for The New York Times
Traditionally, Canadian politics is a fight for the center, not for
the fringes of the ideological spectrum. Political analysts point out
that the far-right People’s Party of Canada, whose leader, Maxime
Bernier, is a champion of the trucker protest, did not win a single
seat in last year’s parliamentary election.
But, populism isn’t totally alien to the country, points out Janice
Stein, a political science professor at the University of Toronto. A
populist, the brother of the Ontario Premier Doug Ford, was once mayor
of the country’s biggest city, Toronto, and for years, the Reform
party rallied around a sense of Western alienation and socially
conservative values.
“There’s a worrying tendency in Canada to define everything pushing
against our founding myth as an import from the United States,” Ms.
Stein said. “We have mythologized our niceness: ‘We are not polarized
like France and Britain, and the only major democratic country in
which the center has held is Canada, and that’s because we’re so nice
and so caring to each other.’”
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Voicing grievances. A demonstration by truck drivers protesting
vaccine mandates has ballooned into a nationwide movement that has
slowed the economy and brought life to a standstill in parts of
Canada. Here’s what to know:
How it began. On Jan. 22, a convoy of truck drivers departed from
British Columbia en route to Ottawa to protest a vaccine mandate
imposed by the Canadian government on truckers entering the country
from the United States.
Expanding reach. After the drivers arrived in Ottawa on Jan. 29,
similar protests erupted in other Canadian cities and on the
Ambassador Bridge, a vital junction for the automobile industry.
Protesters soon expanded the scope of their demands, with some
espousing a wide range of far-right views.
The impact. Drivers occupied strategic sites across Canada, including
the Ambassador Bridge, which links Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit. As a
result, automakers ran plants at reduced capacity due to delays
created by the protests. Canadian law enforcement officials reclaimed
and reopened the bridge on Feb. 13.
State of emergency. On Feb. 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the
rare step of declaring a national public order emergency aimed at
stopping the protests. The order allows the police to seize trucks and
other vehicles, and the government to ban blockades in designated
areas.
The crackdown. On Feb. 17, police began arresting people involved in
the demonstration in Ottawa, including Tamara Lich, one of the
organizers. The morning after, hundreds of officers moved in on the
protests, arresting several other participants and removing truck
Canadian politics may in fact be more genteel than in many other
places, but not because Canadians are innately kinder. That has just
become a lot clearer.
“This is a myth-busting moment,” Ms. Stein said.
Sooner or later, the trucks will depart, but will the movement the
prime minister dismissed as a “small fringe minority” continue to
grow? Some have their doubts.
“This is a one-off political expression,” said Paul Summerville,
co-author of the book “Reclaiming Populism,” which argues that
Canada’s strong socialized medicine and affordable education system
has given the country a sense of fairness and equal opportunity,
inoculating it against populism.
“People are tired, they are angry,” said Mr. Summerville, a former
investment banker in Victoria, British Columbia. “This is a very
specific moment that has to do with people feeling very uncomfortable
for the last two years, because of the pandemic.”
The unrest has infuriated many Ottawa residents, who have led
counterprotests against what they view as an intimidating occupation
of their city. But they have also drawn huge crowds of supporters,
particularly on the weekends, when the downtown has been turned into
what feels like a raucous tailgate party, alternative news convention
and brewing witch hunt, all at the same time.
Signs stuck to a fence in downtown Ottawa. Signs stuck to a
fence in downtown Ottawa.Credit...Brett Gundlock for The New York
Times
Strangers stop for impromptu conversations, hug and beam at one
another, smiling widely — which after two years of mask wearing offers
an emotional balm. One woman paraded the streets with a sign exhorting
people to show her their teeth.
It does not take long to hear stories of personal suffering, and to
understand why an ordinarily rule-abiding people might decide that a
little rebellion is called for.
“Every single one of these people, has been catastrophically hurt,”
said Mr. Rowe, the protester, lowering his megaphone for a moment. A
Bikram Yoga instructor from the city of Kingston, two hours away, Mr.
Rowe listed his losses over the past two years, tears brimming in his
eyes: his home, his business and half of his retirement savings. And
then there was the death of his brother-in-law.
“The suffering has gotten to a level where they have nothing to lose,” he said.
Compared with many countries, Canada was let off easy by Covid, with
far fewer deaths per capita than the United States. But it came at a
heavy cost.
Restrictions have been heavy and long. Almost two years after the
pandemic hit Canada, the country remains in various stages of
lockdown, with indoor dining banned in the country’s two largest
provinces, Ontario and Quebec, until only recently. Residents of
old-age homes were locked in for the better part of a year across the
country. Students in Ontario missed more in-class learning than
anywhere in North America, local newspapers state.
Recent polls show that most Canadians disagree with the tactics of the
so-called freedom convoy, and worry that the country’s democracy is
being threatened. But, many feel sympathy for protesters, particularly
younger Canadians.
“Imagine storm clouds on horizon,” said Darrell Bricker, chief
executive of the polling company Ipsos Public Affairs. “That has to
discharge somewhere. This is part of the discharge.”
Among those people watching the scenes unfold in Ottawa is one of the
city’s two poet laureates, Albert Dumont. An Algonquin elder, Mr.
Dumont rejects not just the protesters’ notion of freedom, given its
effect on local residents, but the whole idea that Canada was ever
particularly nice, or even tolerant.
“My dad didn’t get to vote until 1960 — that’s not long ago,” he said.
“There was a time when Canada was ugly and very cruel to Indigenous
people.”
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Catherine Porter is the Canada bureau chief, based in Toronto. Before
she joined The Times in 2017, she was a columnist and feature writer
for The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper.
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A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 15, 2022, Section
A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Law Invoked As
Canadians Mull Identity.
‘Freedom Convoy’ Rebrands, Plans for Winnipeg in February
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Left to Right: James Bauder, Ron Clark and Colin Ross. Source: Facebook
To mark the one-year anniversary of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” which occupied Ottawa for 3 weeks in January and February of 2022, organizers with Canada Unity are planning a reunion in Winnipeg for February 17th to the 20th.
James Bauder – one of the organizers of the 2022 Convoy, as well as previous convoys to Ottawa including the 2019 United We Roll / Yellow Vests Canada convoy – made the announcement over a livestream on Christmas Day. Appearing with movement influencers “Freedom Advocate” Ron Clark and Colin “BigBear” Ross, Bauder announced Winnipeg as the site for a “World Unity Convoy 2023.”
“We are going to be inviting groups from all over the nation to join us in unity, for a better future, for solutions, for the children across the world and in Canada. We’re going to be inviting whoever wants to join us, multicultured, multispiritual on this journey,” Ross told the audience.
The group said that they chose Winnipeg as it’s the centre of Canada, and people can come from the east and west coasts. Ron Clark told the audience there are convoys “from the north and the south coming, all meeting together.” It’s unclear if the southern convoys refer to convoys coming from the United States.
Bauder told the audience that there is a “world convoy aspect.” Clark said they reached out to other countries, who plan to participate in simultaneous convoys. They didn’t specify which countries they expect to participate or how many.
The specific goals of the convoy remain unclear. “We’re going
to be really focused on solutions for a better world for all Canadians,”
Ross said on the livestream.
Influencer Infighting
Not everyone is pleased with Bauder’s plans. One influencer in the movement said over a voice message on Telegram that Bauder was more interested in his own image and causing division despite preaching about “unity.”
“There’s too many chiefs and not enough Indians… pun intended,” said Edmonton-based Phil Primeau, laughing.
Some of Bauder’s other relationships are imploding: his former organizing partner during the 2022 convoy, Jason LaFace (sometimes spelled LaFaci) has left the organization. LaFace was previously an organizer with the Yellow Vests movement and has posted a picture of himself wearing a Soldiers of Odin – an Islamophobic biker-style hate group – vest.
During a livestream over Facebook on December 22nd, LaFace says he has been working for Bauder but was recently replaced by a man named Dana-lee Melfi.
LaFace continues, saying he was working 60 hours a week and feels he was taken advantage of by Bauder. “When [James] was in Ottawa I did everything for him, all his court work, all his paperwork, and Stand4Thee can back that up. Because you know what? That guy takes advantage of people in this movement and is a fucking idiot.”
LaFace has also taken credit for the social media and web presence of Canada Unity. As of writing, Canada Unity’s website is defunct, and just brings visitors to an unsecured, blank page. The Facebook group for Canada Unity says the website is “under development.” However, the website was fully functional until at least mid-December.
A December 23 archive of the site reads “James Bauder Canada Unity is NOT a registered company it is not a business. Site was developped and he did not pay us for the work we did for him = James has burned his bridges with everyone. “
Previous archives of the site show a post from November 8 which announces Dana-lee Melfi, also known as “Peace-Man,” has joined the Canada Unity team. Recent posts to the Facebook group from Melfi indicate he holds a leadership position.
In a post dated December 26, Melfi advises group members that they are not approving all posts due to the scrutiny they are under, and the content of the posts that are being submitted.
“There are a lot coming in that just want to hurt us if we approve and have to watch everything beforehand now as a precaution,” the post reads.
Both Melfi and Bauder
are facing charges from their involvement with the 2022 convoy,
including mischief to property, disobeying a lawful court order, and
obstructing justice.
Convoy organizers set sights for Winnipeg
Protest scheduled for Winnipeg from Feb. 17 to Feb. 20, 2023
Some of the organizers of last year's convoy have altered plans to end a second convoy in Ottawa this February, opting instead for Winnipeg.
James Bauder, co-founder of the group Canada Unity and a co-organizer of last February's protest in Ottawa, made the announcement in a Facebook live video, along with fellow organizers Ron Clark and Colin 'Big Bear' Ross, on Christmas Day.
The rally is scheduled to take place from Feb. 17 to Feb. 20, 2023. The start date falls on the one-year anniversary of the final full day of the protest in Ottawa — one day before police started a push to take back occupied streets in the nation's capital.
Bauder had previously posted a call on social media for "Freedom Convoy 2.0" in Ottawa on those same February dates. Now he says the capital will be a stop on the way to Winnipeg where the convoy will make its presence known.
"We're going to come with our convoy — coming right by Ottawa," he said. "We're going to honk, honk and we're going to invite Ottawa residents."
James Bauder appears as a witness at the Public Order Emergency
Commission in Ottawa in November. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Ottawa's police chief has said the force would not allow a repeat of last year's protest which occupied downtown streets for weeks. The federal government also said it learned lessons from the handling of the protest and has already implemented changes for future events.
"We chose Winnipeg because it's the middle point in Canada, so people can come from the east coast, from the west coast," Ross said. "We'll be able to convoy across the nation."
Bauder was behind the group that called for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be arrested and "charged with treason." Other convoy organizers eventually distanced themselves from him.
Organizers promise peaceful rally
Bauder's also been involved in previous, less successful attempts to disrupt the capital. Bauder, who testified last month during the Public Order Emergency Commission, calls his demonstrations "bear hugs."
He was arrested in Ottawa in February and faces several charges. His bail conditions currently prevent him from returning to the capital.
Police
enforced an injunction against protesters, some who had been camped in
their trucks near Parliament Hill for weeks, on Feb. 19, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Organizers said it will be a "peaceful, multi-day assembly," featuring speeches, ceremonies, events and guest speakers.
"The goal is to facilitate a grassroots movement of citizens worldwide," a woman by the Facebook name Serena Freedombear said in a separate video posted to Canada Unity's page.
No contact from organizers, Winnipeg police say
Convoy organizers told Radio-Canada they had been in contact with the Winnipeg Police Service, but police said no representative of Canada Unity had yet reached out to them.
"As of Thursday, no representatives of this group had contacted the Winnipeg Police Service," Const. Jay Murray told Radio-Canada on Sunday.
Radio-Canada also requested an interview with the Ottawa Police Service but has not heard back.
In a letter addressed to the mayor and chair of the city's police services board last week, Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said he and his command team have briefed the board about the "potential" return of protesters in the new year.
"There is zero tolerance for disturbances and/or criminal behaviour or for individuals who attempt to disrupt our communities with vehicles," he wrote.
With files from Radio-Canada's Gaëlle Kanyeba
Some trucker convoy organizers have history of white nationalism, racism
As the first vehicles from the trucker convoy started appearing on Ottawa streets, some Twitter users shared a particular photo: a pickup truck with a confederate flag flying from the bed.
Now, as the convoy descends on Ottawa with the stated aim of opposing all COVID-19 mandates, anti-hate experts allege those with white nationalist and Islamophobic views don’t just represent the fringes of the movement but are among the organizers of the convoy.
“We’re saying that this is a far-right convoy because — from day one — the organizers themselves are part of the far-right movement,” said Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
“They have previously been involved in far-right movements and have made Islamophobic comments in the past.”
It can be difficult to determine who is a key organizer of the convoy, but there are some names that emerge time and time again — whether as authors of the $7.4million GoFundMe campaign, as points of contact on the website that boasts a petition with 240,000 signatures, or on social media posts providing widely-shared directions to anyone hoping to join.
Global News contacted all the organizers mentioned in this story, but none responded by the time of publication. Jason LaFace, an Ontario organizer, did pick up the call, but upon the reporter identifying themselves, immediately laughed, said “no thank you,” and hung up the phone.
What does the convoy want?
The convoy initially kicked off with a focus on opposing vaccine mandates — especially the one aimed at truckers. The government announced in November 2021 that all Canadian truckers seeking to cross the border from the United States would need to be vaccinated in order to avoid a 14-day quarantine. That mandate went into effect on Jan. 15.
The U.S. also instituted its own ban on unvaccinated truck drivers a week after Canada implemented its policy.
In the days since the trucks hit the road, the stated goal of the movement has become muddied.
One trucker who is headed to the protest, Brigitte Belton, told Global News in a Friday interview that her goal is “to get freedom back,” and that she is “not here for politics.”
Commenting on other participants whose goals may be more extreme, she said “whatever their agendas are, that’s not what we’re here for. So they need to be quiet. They need to go home.”
A group affiliated with the convoy, Canada Unity, has produced a “memorandum of understanding” that it plans to present to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and the Senate, and which it believes would force the government to rescind COVID-19 public health measures, or force the government to resign en masse.
“The GG wouldn’t dismiss a Cabinet that hasn’t lost the confidence of the Commons … moreover, the GG has no authority to independently rescind laws or regulations,” said parliamentary expert Philippe Lagassé.
Who is organizing the convoy?
The convoy has a number of participants with different goals and isn’t cohesive, but some popular webpages help paint a picture of the people behind the convoy.
There is a GoFundMe page that has raised more than $7 million for the
trucker convoy. That fundraiser has two names on it: Tamara Lich, and
B.J. Dichter.
Speaking to a cheering crowd at a People’s Party of Canada convention in 2019, B.J. Dichter warned listeners about the dangers of “political Islamists,” and said the Liberal Party is “infested with Islamists.”
He added that, by meeting “with extremists,” Conservative and “establishment” politicians “put at risk moderate and secular Muslims, who want nothing more but to integrate into Canada, to become Canadian, and to leave the garbage of their birth country behind them.”
“Despite what our corporate media and political leaders want to admit, Islamist entryism and the adaptation of political Islam is rotting away at our society like syphilis,” he added, according to a story written for the Toronto Star by Alex Boutilier, who is now employed by Global News.
Another dominant voice within the convoy community is a man named Patrick King. King is listed as a contact for North Alberta on Canada Unity’s website, which hosts the memorandum of understanding that boasts more than 240,000 signatures.
King’s name was repeatedly mentioned on the convoy’s walkie-talkie app, Zello, on Friday — but he has ended up in the public eye for different reasons in the past, according to footage posted online.
In a video posted on Twitter in 2019, King suggests that unless Canadians “get up off your as—s and demand change,” they might want to change their names to “Ishmael” or “drop a bunch of change down the stairs” and “call yourself chong ching ching chang.”
In other video footage, King can be seen repeating racist conspiracy theories. In one clip posted to Twitter by another user, King says “there’s an endgame, it’s called depopulation of the Caucasian race, or the Anglo-Saxon. And that’s what the goal is, is to depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race because they are the ones with the strongest bloodlines,” he said.
“It’s a depopulation of race, okay, that’s what they want to do.”
He then talks about men with the first names “Ahmed” and “Mahmoud” who he claims are trying to “not only infiltrate by flooding with refugees, we’re going to infiltrate the education systems to manipulate it” so there is “less procreation” which leads to “less white people — or you know, Anglo-Saxon. Let’s say Anglo-Saxon, because when I say white, all the ANTIFA guys call up the race card.”
In a Facebook Live posted directly to his page, King says that COVID-19 is “not a naturally occurring virus.”
“It’s not a naturally occurring virus, it’s a man-made bioweapon that was put out to make people sick, to push the narrative for all these jabs, is what it was,” he said.
“Because the jab is the, they want to be able to track you, follow you, know your every movement you do.”
King did not answer two phone calls or respond to emails from Global News.
Jason LaFace — who at times uses the name “LaFaci” — is listed as the North and East Ontario organizer for the convoy on the Canada Unity website, and has been cited in other media as the main organizer for Ontario. In photos posted to his Facebook page, which were screenshotted by Global News, he shared an image titled “Canadian politicians who are not born in Canada” and included his own caption: “traitors to our country.”
According to a screenshot obtained by Global News, LaFace posted a selfie where he wore a hat with what appears to be the initials S.O.O., which is believed to stand for Soldiers of Odin — an anti-immigrant group first established in Finland.
The emergence of the far-right Soldiers of Odin group in Canada raised concerns about the potential for “anti-immigrant vigilantism,” according to a de-classified intelligence report obtained by Global News in 2017.
“One of the admins on their website is actually somebody who’s like the vice president of the Soldiers of Odin, a skinhead group in Sudbury, Ont.,” said Dr. Carmen Celestini, a post-doctoral fellow with the Disinformation Project at Simon Fraser University.
“His name is Jason LaFace. He also uses other names, but he is a vice president of this group, which organize events that will try to stop immigration, people who are BIPOC or people who are in LGBTQ communities.”
“Last summer,” she added, LaFace posted a message on Facebook indicating that he planned to “paint over a mural in Sudbury for (Black Lives Matter).”
LaFace later apologized, saying he “should have researched a bit more what was going on in terms of the mission and why it was sanctioned by the city.“I apologize for my behaviour to the entire city,” he said, according to the Sudbury Star.
However, LaFace showed a slight change of heart in a recent Facebook Live.
“This whole moment in history right now has changed my life for better, for the rest of my life,” LaFace said.
“I’m not a bitter little a–hole like I used to be, where I was pretty ignorant to some people online.”
However, in that same video, LaFace also issued a message about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“There’s things that are working in the background right now, that I found out this morning, Justin Trudeau is going buh-bye. It’s true, he is,” he said.
“It’s done, so now we just have to deploy our plan … he’s gone when we’re done.”
When Global News attempted to contact LaFace for a comment, he said “no thank you” and hung up.
Muddying the convoy's cause
As the ideologies allegedly supported by a number of the convoy’s organizers make headlines, some truckers are getting frustrated.
“We’re here to get freedom back. That’s what we’re here to get, out here for. Whatever their agendas are, that’s not what we’re here for,” said Belton, referring to the more extreme voices tied to the movement.
Belton is a trucker who has been regularly making TikTok videos about the convoy and plans to attend Saturday’s protest. She is also listed as a Sarnia contact on the Canada Unity webpage.
“They need to go home. We don’t need them. We don’t need their numbers. Yeah, we’ve got huge numbers with just people that want to go back to a normal life and that’s what we want,” she said.
Lich, an organizer of the truck convoy, said in a video posted to the convoy’s Facebook page that those promoting violence or hate do not reflect the position of the protesters.
“As you know, we are on our way to Ottawa to hold a peaceful protest. I just want to put it out there that nobody in this convoy will be inciting violence or uttering threats. That is not what we’re here to do,” Lich said in the video.
“If you see anybody trying to associate themselves with us that is acting in that way, you need to get their truck number and their licence plate and report it to the police.”
For some, the individual views of organizers aren’t as important as what they’re doing for the cause.
When Belton was asked specifically about organizers and told some of what Global News had uncovered about LaFace and King, she said the information about the purported views is “irrelevant” for her.
“I’m coming here for freedom,” she said.
“All I know is that they’re good people to me and they are helping me.”
© 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
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YEAH Surprized her with gifts
and acknowledged her rightful position regarding the Freedom convoy.
She kindly gave us a complete version of what , how and why she decided
to call out for help. Thank you for acknowledging the remarkable courage
and letting people know who sparked it. As for the rest I can't say...
I'm just a t shirt giveawayer.. l.o.l.
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Unfortunately, I was ready for the court, and the court was NOT READY FOR ME!
I thank Rick for being the ONE media not afraid to show.
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The Canadian people will find themselves in a fragmented nation. The Liberal Party often claims to promote inclusion and diversity, yet in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought all parties together in a way that fostered hate, segregation, and discrimination in the most disgusting manner.
No matter which side you were on, the way people were treated was unacceptable. The idea that the government was no longer tolerating people's freedom was a clear message: the government was not serving the people, but rather destroying the very fabric in which the country was built.
Brigitte Belton takes you through life as a trucker during the pandemic. The plight of truckers who supported citizens during unprecedented times. Truckers are accustomed to being disregarded or treated like second-class citizens, but the unexpected shift from being seen as heroes on the frontlines to being treated like criminals—without precautions or protection against COVID-19—was an emotional ride for all involved.
The fascinating journey that united Canadians has never been fully told by the leadership of the convoy. Through this story, you'll get a firsthand look at the consequences that led a female trucker, the driver of "Daddy's Lil Monster," to stand as a voice for those who couldn't and amplified the voices of those who were unheard.
The Canadian people will find themselves in a fragmented nation. The Liberal Party often claims to promote inclusion and diversity, yet in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought all parties together in a way that fostered hate, segregation, and discrimination in the most disgusting manner.
No matter which side you were on, the way people were treated was unacceptable. The idea that the government was no longer tolerating people's freedom was a clear message: the government was not serving the people, but rather destroying the very fabric in which the country was built.
Brigitte Belton takes you through life as a trucker during the pandemic. The plight of truckers who supported citizens during unprecedented times. Truckers are accustomed to being disregarded or treated like second-class citizens, but the unexpected shift from being seen as heroes on the frontlines to being treated like criminals—without precautions or protection against COVID-19—was an emotional ride for all involved.
The fascinating journey that united Canadians has never been fully told by the leadership of the convoy. Through this story, you'll get a firsthand look at the consequences that led a female trucker, the driver of "Daddy's Lil Monster," to stand as a voice for those who couldn't and amplified the voices of those who were unheard.
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