‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Chris Barber on how the movement unfolded: ‘It was extremely fast’

'Freedom Convoy' organizer Chris Barber testifies at the Emergencies Act inquiry.

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73 comments

    1. @Playing With Fire Big tough truckers can’t handle a little name calling. Guess they aren’t so big and tough eh?

    2. @Sam G Yeah? sounds like baseless speculation on your part. You don’t converse with garbage, you take it to the dump.

    3. @Sam G Yes, they wanted to converse by… Blocking infrastructure and affecting millions of businesses. Hypocrites

    4. @Guitarisforgrins Well. If you want to talk trash then you better be able to take it back. And Trudeau can’t take it back

    1. Wow and you got many likes—– dumbdown society would eventually get thrown in the dumbs with that” obedient slave” attitude.

  1. Hopefully everyone will stop treating them like extremists when it was literally the largest and actually peaceful protest in the last few years.

    1. @Chadicus lol, to it’s knees? Are you insane? The convoy accomplished literally nothing, at all. Sure did cost the Canadian public a crazy amount of money though.

  2. The manner in which the Liberals handled COVID was completely unacceptable and they need to be held accountable.

    This is supposed to be a free country.

    1. Yeah, they had an election about it last September and the conservatives LOST AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME.

    2. @Cornwall Dragon classic liberal saying. Remember when liberals actually cared about right!…now yall to worried about pronouns and were to put litter boxes in school.

    3. It is a free country. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t make it not free , difference of opinion makes it FREE !

    4. @Brian NYOB Section 7…(9) The physical aspect includes state action that prevents someone from making choices that affect his or her own body

  3. Dear Cultists:
    Don’t get your blood pressure up. Remain calm.
    When you finally realize what’s been done to your blood vessel lining, please, whatever you do, remain calm.

    1. @Love, Rick call it what you want a 200% increase over the last two years is “bigly” or whatever nonsense leftie words you want to use 🤡

    2. @Love, Rick look at all the damage those lieberals have don’t to this country wake up you are brainwashed

    1. And if they didn’t show this you’d be saying how awful it is that they are;n’t giving them a chance to explain themselves. Trudeau has said he will testify.. it has not happened yet. Ford is the one resisting the summons.

  4. At least these protesters weren’t gluing themselves to roads and defacing centuries old pieces of art or spray painting government buildings etc etc

    1. Which has what do with this issue? The only common theme between the two is they are having a temper tantrum as were the Ram Ranchers. If that was your link for the two, then bravo *golf clap*.

  5. A true Canadian hero! And the coward still wouldn’t talk to them. Justin Trudeau is responsible for all of this.

  6. This is a true Canadian hero thank you for standing up for bodily autonomy and Freedoms . Say no to more government control on our bodies and lives.

    1. say hello to control of your bodies and lives by criminals of all ranks, you dont know what you talkin about,

  7. Some Canadians wanted less COVID mandates, the government intended to loosen up on these mandates. Sounds like the government failed to communicate, either out of incompetence or perhaps ego. Really seems like something the feds could’ve diffused on day 1 of the protest had they sat down with protest organizers. The cynic in me thinks the feds wanted a show of force, thankfully that was limited to police action and not a military response.

    1. One disagreement: at the time of the convoy, there was no sign that the government intended to loosen up anything. Mandates were worse than ever and there wasn’t a single “end date” for any of them, or even an indication of what the goalposts were to create an end-date. By the time the convoy was leaving Ottawa (and the 2 weeks that followed), suddenly there WERE many end dates in many places

    2. Trudeau didn’t even TRY and converse with the protesters. Instead he insulted them, their followers and anyone who was done with Covid restrictions. He failed miserably as a leader.

    3. They “protested” with an act of intimidation which affected the businesses they thought they were helping. All they did was tarnish the names of the working class as a bunch of ignoramic self-righteous dullards. Thanks a lot.

    4. @Youtube Commentater you dont speak for everyone. The government also affected businesses they were supposedly trying to help as well but yet here u are mad at a actually yes noisy yet peaceful protest but ok with the government dragging on the covid restrictions. Smh smh

  8. It’s unfortunate that we have such a pathetically weak and indifferent
    P.M. who showed his complete inability to even address a peaceful and law abiding group of protesters by maliciously slandering them before they even arrived in Ottawa. Then he evokes the emergency act for mainly bylaw infractions. What a joke.

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