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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — A consultant who was hired by the public inquiry committee looking into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) previously likened the Freedom Convoy to an “anti-democratic jihad” in now-deleted social media posts.
As noted by Blacklock’s Reporter, the president of Ekos Research Associates Inc., Frank Graves – who the Public Order Emergency Commission contracted for $5,000 dollars with the purpose of having him look into the legitimacy of the EA’s use against the Freedom Convoy – has a months-long history of making derogatory social media posts about the anti-COVID mandate protesters.
On February 13, Graves tweeted that it is “never a great idea to be ‘negotiating’ with hallucinogenic insurrectionists,” a statement which was proceeded by a January 28 tweet saying, “I am genuinely frightened about the future of the country.”
On January 29 he also said: “To see this throng fouling our seat of government and its cherished symbols is just too much.”
While those now-deleted posts happened during the protest, more recent, also deleted posts, show him continuing to disparage the group
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