There is almost certain to be testimony, however, showing the occupation of Ottawa was more than an out-of-control street party; that behind the hot tubs, barbecues and “F – – – Trudeau” flags was something potentially more insidious.
David Vigneault, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has already testified to a separate parliamentary inquiry that a dangerous current was running through the convoy occupation. “We have seen a number of individuals, who were of concern to CSIS prior to the convoy, being engaged online and also in person in the context of the convoy,” Vigneault told a special joint committee investigating the invocation of the Emergencies Act in February, in response to the protests that occupied blocks of downtown Ottawa for weeks.
“The concern we had with the convoy, at the outset and throughout, was the fact that we have seen in Canada, in other jurisdictions, violent extremists using these protests and demonstrations to engage in acts of violence, to recruit members, to be able to spread their ideology further,” Vigneault said
Do CSIS & the RCMP only concern themselves with some Canadians? No one has been arrested in the Coastal GasLink attack. Not a single bank account frozen and how’s the Church Burnings file coming along?
