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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — As the national inquiry into the invocation of the Emergencies Act (EA) heats up in Ottawa, new documents reveal that claims by the RCMP saying “Freedom Convoy” had weapons were unsubstantiated.
DOCUMENTS: @RCMPgrcPolice the day feds invoked Emergencies Act at 12:59pm falsely claim #FreedomConvoy had guns outside Parliament. They didn’t. 100% false. https://t.co/gkvrxSIwFn #cdnpoli @CommrRCMPgrc pic.twitter.com/TiIVtbRRg1
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) October 13, 2022
As reported by Blacklock’s Reporter: “The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in a briefing to deputy ministers the very day cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act falsely claimed Freedom Convoy protesters had weapons outside Parliament.”
The false claims of potentially violent weapons present at the non-violent demonstration came from a police memo citing a rumor sourced from unspecified “intelligence information.”
On February 14 – the day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the EA – the memo stated: “Intelligence information also suggests that convoy protesters are beginning to weaponize themselves.”
Despite the so-called “intelligence information,” no weapons of any kind were found in any of the trucks that were part of the massive convoy.
This, however, did
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