OTTAWA—Portraying themselves as honest brokers of a righteous cause, prominent “Freedom Convoy” figures distanced themselves from more controversial elements of their protest movement at the Emergencies Act inquiry Wednesday, before an outburst from an angry supporter interrupted the proceedings.
Over several hours of testimony, convoy leader Tom Marazzo dismissed concerns about a suspected extremist group that participated in last winter’s demonstrations, and joined Keith Wilson — a lawyer for some organizers who also testified Wednesday — in describing a notorious demand from an original group of protesters to unseat the elected federal government as “nonsense.”
