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By Barbara Kline
April 17, 2025

Truck barricade in Ottawa Feb. 8, 2022, during three-week Freedom Convoy. Canadian government invoked draconian Emergencies Act to use cops to end the protest, arrest leaders. Justin Trudeau, then prime minister, claimed protest was a “threat to national security.”

Truck barricade in Ottawa Feb. 8, 2022, during three-week Freedom Convoy. Canadian government invoked draconian Emergencies Act to use cops to end the protest, arrest leaders. Justin Trudeau, then prime minister, claimed protest was a “threat to national security.”