AlvinofDiaspar
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LeMay said there were two distinct groups blocking the border at Coutts and further north along Highway 4 at Milk River, and very few of the protesters were truckers affected by the federal government’s cross-border vaccine mandate.
As has been reported, the protest group at Milk River was much larger, as many 1,500 people at one point. LeMay said the group, which was almost exclusively white, included many protesters in their late teens or early 20s but also people of all ages.
They weren’t involved in blockade planning.
“They are just there for support. A lot of them are there just to have a big party and thumb their nose at the police and the government,” LeMay said.
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There were also many expensive tractors, trucks and heavy construction equipment parked at the blockade by farmers, ranchers and private-company owners, many of whom were not at the site.
“There is an element of this protest by proxy where this relatively small group of Christian right-wing protesters are being used by people with maybe similar agendas to disrupt the supply chain,” LeMay said.
He said the blockade had been labelled a trucker protest about COVID-19 border restrictions but “that is just the cover.”
Some of Alberta’s largest trucking and construction companies supported the blockade, both financially and morally.
“So there is a lot more going on here than just a handful of truckers who aren’t able to cross the border to make a living,” LeMay said Sunday.
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LeMay said the Coutts group has close ties to Christian libertarian factions in both Canada and the United States. His firm’s investigator observed American protesters and supporters within the Coutts group, “suggesting they are crossing the border at will while it is blockaded,” the threat assessment stated.
Critically, the assessment concluded that the blockade, which began under the auspices of protesting COVID-19 public health measures, had become more concerned with “replacing our current democratic system of government with a government that is based upon the principles of the Christian right.
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Quelle surprise. I think naming them is in order, and the foreign elements and their local associates need to be rooted out.
AoD
Coutts blockaders discussed blocking airport cargo terminals: private threat assessment | Globalnews.ca
An undercover private investigator spent about 10 hours on Saturday among the Coutts organizers and their families.
globalnews.ca
LeMay said there were two distinct groups blocking the border at Coutts and further north along Highway 4 at Milk River, and very few of the protesters were truckers affected by the federal government’s cross-border vaccine mandate.
As has been reported, the protest group at Milk River was much larger, as many 1,500 people at one point. LeMay said the group, which was almost exclusively white, included many protesters in their late teens or early 20s but also people of all ages.
They weren’t involved in blockade planning.
“They are just there for support. A lot of them are there just to have a big party and thumb their nose at the police and the government,” LeMay said.
...
There were also many expensive tractors, trucks and heavy construction equipment parked at the blockade by farmers, ranchers and private-company owners, many of whom were not at the site.
“There is an element of this protest by proxy where this relatively small group of Christian right-wing protesters are being used by people with maybe similar agendas to disrupt the supply chain,” LeMay said.
He said the blockade had been labelled a trucker protest about COVID-19 border restrictions but “that is just the cover.”
Some of Alberta’s largest trucking and construction companies supported the blockade, both financially and morally.
“So there is a lot more going on here than just a handful of truckers who aren’t able to cross the border to make a living,” LeMay said Sunday.
...
LeMay said the Coutts group has close ties to Christian libertarian factions in both Canada and the United States. His firm’s investigator observed American protesters and supporters within the Coutts group, “suggesting they are crossing the border at will while it is blockaded,” the threat assessment stated.
Critically, the assessment concluded that the blockade, which began under the auspices of protesting COVID-19 public health measures, had become more concerned with “replacing our current democratic system of government with a government that is based upon the principles of the Christian right.
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Quelle surprise. I think naming them is in order, and the foreign elements and their local associates need to be rooted out.
AoD
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