‘You have allies’: Tory MPs welcome convoy figures warning of deep divides in Canada

convoy protests and related organizations were welcomed to Parliament Hill on Wednesday by a group of Conservative MPs that assured them they have ‘allies’ in Ottawa.And while the group professed peaceful intentions for future demonstrations, they also warned they believe Canada was on a “dark path,” deeply “divided,” even showing similarities to countries about to descend into “civil war.” Poilievre encourages anti-vaccine mandate protests amid reports of Canada Day rally The Ottawa press conference was scheduled to coincide with a conference of the “Canada Citizens Coalition,” or C3, an umbrella group for various protesters connected to February’s convoy demonstrations that paralyzed downtown Ottawa and blocked several Canada-U.S.

border crossings.The protests were purportedly sparked by an opposition to federal vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers, but quickly morphed into a festival of grievances with federal and provincial authorities.The federal Liberal government resorted to an unprecedented invocation of emergency powers to help police to clear the blockade, and is now facing parliamentary scrutiny and a judicial inquiry into that decision.According to James Topp, one of the organizers who recently walked from B.C.

to Ottawa to protest those mandates, the movement is no longer about COVID-19 public health measures. Topp, a 22-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces and current reservist, was charged in May with two conduct infractions for speaking out about vaccine mandates while in uniform.“Their issue is not so much with mandates anymore, it’s their satisfaction with the federal government,” Topp said of the people he met along his march.“There is a divide in this country I have never seen or.