Canada launches police force to prevent more Freedom Convoys

Canada’s government has created a new police force to stave off protests like the one orchestrated by the Freedom Convoy, according to Rebel News.

The Freedom Convoy was a group of truckers who protested Trudeau’s draconian COVID-19 mandates in early 2022. Thousands of truckers peacefully descended on Ottawa and blockaded key spots along the US-Canadian trade routes. Joined by tens of thousands more Canadians, they were cheered by citizens around the world suffering from similar oppression by their own governments. The Freedom Convoy raised $10 million on GoFundMe — which was later confiscated by the Trudeau administration — and raised $8 million more on GiveSendGo.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian media at the time falsely accused the protesters of violence, a claim that was used to justify a totalitarian crackdown on the Freedom Convoy and their supporters. Canadian officials have since acknowledged that the accusations were false.

The government last year earmarked $50 million to “bolster Parliamentary security” over the next five years. The funds, which Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says are already being disbursed, will support a team of 49 civilian and sworn employees who will patrol Parliament Hill. While officials say they hope the initiative will prevent “hate crimes,” the catalyst was the Freedom Convoy.

“I don’t want to sugarcoat it, but I think you all remember how challenging and difficult a period it was during the almost month-long occupation of downtown Ottawa,” Yasir Naqvi, a Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre said, adding: “My community has not forgotten that. We’re investing in our downtown core in the parliamentary district so that we don’t live through that ever again.”

What does the government know?

It is unclear whether the government intends to impose mandates that might spark mass protests or if, three years later, Canadian bureaucrats continue to feel threatened by the movement’s popularity. Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, who was voted in Sunday as the country’s next prime minister, accused the Freedom Convoy protesters of sedition.

“This is sedition. That’s a word I never thought I’d use in Canada,” he wrote then. “By now, anyone sending money to the convoy should be in no doubt: You are funding sedition. Foreign funders of an insurrection interfered in our domestic affairs from the start. Canadian authorities should take every step within the law to identify and thoroughly punish them. The involvement of foreign governments and any officials connected to them should be identified, exposed and addressed,” he added.

Carney supported Trudeau’s mandates and has reaffirmed the Canadian government’s commitment to woke ideologies which are often totalitarian in practice. 

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