{"id":1536628,"date":"2022-07-02T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536628"},"modified":"2022-07-02T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:34:14","slug":"freedom-convoy-protesters-show-up-on-canada-day-to-protest-covid-mandates-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-convoy-protesters-show-up-on-canada-day-to-protest-covid-mandates-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Convoy Protesters Show Up On Canada Day To Protest COVID Mandates, Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffreedom-convoy-protesters-show-up-on-canada-day-to-protest-covid-mandates-trudeau%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Protesters associated with Canada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/freedom-convoy\">Freedom Convoy<\/a> demonstrated in Ottawa on Friday to protest COVID <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vaccine-mandate\">mandates<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/canada\">Canada Day<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations in Canada\u2019s capital city came just months after the Freedom Convoy spent three weeks camped out in the city protesting the government\u2019s vaccine mandates and days after one of the convoy\u2019s organizers was arrested for allegedly not following the conditions of her bail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to be peaceful. We are going to be lawful. And if [police] want to try and crack down on us for peacefully protesting on Parliament Hill, then there\u2019s nothing we can do. We\u2019ll just have to deal with it at that time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/freedom-convoy-protesters-canada-day-ottawa-arrival-1.6507855\">said<\/a> Andrew MacGillvray of Veterans for Freedom, a group related to the Freedom Convoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Politico, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/01\/on-canada-day-trudeau-shows-the-flag-00043840\">hundreds<\/a> of demonstrators showed up to protest government COVID mandates and the leadership of Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/justin-trudeau\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>, who previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-trudeau-will-respond-to-freedom-convoy-with-unprecedented-emergency-power-reports\">said<\/a> protesters were \u201ctrying to blockade our economy, our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators waved \u201cF*** Trudeau\u201d flags, and had \u201cFreedom Convoy 2022\u201d gear for sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada has never been perfect, and it\u2019s not perfect now,\u201d Trudeau said during his remarks on Canada Day, the day when the Canadian Federation was formed. \u201cLet\u2019s remember the values that it stands for: Compassion, hope and responsibility, justice, openness and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau has taken heat in recent months for the government\u2019s COVID vaccine mandate for truckers and his government\u2019s response to the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Polievre, a candidate running to lead Canada\u2019s Conservative Party and become prime minister, opposes the mandates and walked with anti-mandate demonstrators on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnd all mandates. Restore our freedoms. Let people take back control of their lives,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierrePoilievre\/status\/1542610025834655744\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations also followed the arrest of Tamara Lich, an organizer of the original Freedom Convoy, after she allegedly did not follow the conditions of her bail. Lich, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/freedom-convoy-tamara-lich-arrested-1.6503718\">arrested<\/a> in Alberta, now needs to go back to Ottawa for a court appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on everything we knew, she\u2019s been diligently complying with all of her bail conditions as was noted by the judge at her recent bail review,\u201d one of her lawyers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was originally arrested and charged with obstructing police, mischief, intimidation by blocking, and other charges related to the February protest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters associated with Canada\u2019s Freedom Convoy demonstrated in Ottawa on Friday to protest COVID mandates on Canada Day.\u00a0 The demonstrations in Canada\u2019s capital city came just months after the Freedom Convoy spent three weeks camped out in the city protesting the government\u2019s vaccine mandates and days after one of the convoy\u2019s organizers was arrested for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1536634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}