James Bauder, the founder of Canada Unity and the architect of the "trucker" convoy to Ottawa, has said Trudeau “needs too[sic] be arrested and charged for treason, and for participating in committing crimes against humanity.”
vice.com/en/article/bvn…
Jason LaFace, who was linked to far-right group Soldiers of Odin, is listed as the Northern Ontario organizer. Here he is rejecting the idea this is *just* about vaccine mandates.
Just so we're clear, the convoy isn't a decentralized or heterogeneous movement. Every aspect of this organization and convoy go back to a handful of organizers, including Bauder, his wife, and Pat King.
This is not a movement that's been "hijacked" or "taken over by extremists." That's factually incorrect. The freedom convoy was dreamed up by Bauder as a way to remove Trudeau from power. Since then it's attracted an array of other conspiracy theorists and far-right agitators.
I do feel like I'm losing my mind. In 2020, I wrote how a deranged plan to have the U.S. embassy try Trudeau for treason may have directly fed into one man's armed and delusional attempt to arrest the PM.
Have we learned nothing? foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/13/qan…
I genuinely can't believe that Canadian politicians are lending their credibility to a movement that believes it can oust our democratically-elected government, and will try and shut down our capital until they succeed.
This is why I asked Erin O'Toole what the hell is going through his head, in planning to meet with these people.
NEW: This is Pat King, an Alberta organizer with the convoy who promised "the only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets."
When the convoy rolled through Saskatchewan on January 24, Conservative MP Jeremy Patzer came up to shake his hand and snap a photo.
Another Member of Parliament comes out in favour of the convoy, plans to meet with them tomorrow.
Details about this planned "blockade" have been hazy thus far. (Some organizers insisted it would surround the whole city and/or the U.S. border.)
In this video, from Jan 22, Pat King says they won't disrupt supply chains (that's "later") but they will target politicians homes.
And for folks who have insisted that Pat King isn't involved with the group: He's *still* listed as an organizer on their official page, he has a "Canada Unity" email address, and he's leading a number of trucks. He's a whole faction of this thing.
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