{"id":249129,"date":"2022-02-03T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249129"},"modified":"2022-02-05T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T08:04:33","slug":"canadas-state-broadcaster-spreads-bizarre-conspiracy-theory-that-russian-actors-are-behind-50000-strong-freedom-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249129","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s state broadcaster spreads bizarre conspiracy theory that &#8216;Russian actors&#8217; are behind 50,000-strong &#8216;Freedom Convoy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Police threaten to ARREST truckers blockading the US border in Alberta<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Canada&#8217;s foremost news network is spreading a conspiracy theory that &#8216;Russian actors&#8217; are behind the &#8216;Freedom Convoy&#8217; trucker vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa and at the US border<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>During a broadcast Friday on the Canada Broadcasting Corporation &#8211; which is funded by the Canadian government &#8211; anchor Nil Koksal offered Parliament member Marco Mendicino the theory<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;There is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows. Perhaps even instigating it from the outset,&#8217; Koksal said, citing Canada&#8217;s support for Russia-enemy Ukraine as evidence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Koksal&#8217;s comments quickly set off a storm of backlash on social media, with users criticizing the longtime CBC fixture for offering an unfounded theory based entirely on speculation as news<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Freedom Convoy, a coalition of 50,000 drivers protesting Justin Trudeau&#8217;s vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, has been described as a grassroots movement and has no known ties to Russia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Royal Canadian Mounted Police have threatened to arrest truckers blockading the US border in Alberta unless they leave by Tuesday, a lawyer representing the disgruntled drivers says\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Calgary-based civil liberties lawyer Chad Williamson\u00a0revealed that Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials handed members of the so-called &#8216; Freedom Convoy&#8217; the ultimatum Tuesday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;The police have essentially shut down all negotiations, period,&#8217; civil rights attorney Williamson said Tuesday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;They have indicated that they are going to seize equipment, and they&#8217;ve indicated that they are going to reopen the highway,&#8217; he added\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trudeau called dissenters in the Canadian capital and along the US border &#8216;hateful,&#8217; &#8216;violent,&#8217; and &#8216;racist,&#8217; labeling them a &#8216;small, fringe minority&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alex Hammer \u2013 Daily Mail Feb 2, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Canada\u2019s state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, is spreading a bizarre and unfounded conspiracy theory that &#8216;Russian actors&#8217; are behind the &#8216;Freedom Convoy&#8217; trucker vaccine mandate protests currently being held in Ottawa and at the US border.<\/p>\n<p>During a broadcast\u00a0Friday on the CBC &#8211; which is funded by the Canadian government &#8211; anchor Nil Koksal offered Parliament member Marco Mendicino the theory, citing the country&#8217;s current relationship with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ukraine\/index.html\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/a>, a former Soviet nation currently at odds with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/russia\/index.html\"><strong>Russia<\/strong><\/a>, as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Given Canada&#8217;s support of Ukraine, in this current crisis with Russia, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s far-fetched to ask,&#8217; Koksal told Mendicino, the county&#8217;s minister of public safety, during the Friday interview. &#8216;But there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows. Perhaps even instigating it from, from the outset.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Convoy, a coalition of 50,000 drivers protesting Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/justin_trudeau\/index.html\"><strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers that formed last month, has been described as a grassroots movement and has no known ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Protests began in Ottawa last month on January 23 and at the US-Canada border in Alberta on Saturday and are still going strong, despite warnings from Royal Canadian Mounted Police that things will get ugly for revelers if they do not abandon their &#8216;Freedom Convoy&#8217; campaign, where tens of thousands of truckers have blocked crucial roads at both locations with their parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau, 50, has refused to meet with the group to discuss their qualms with his new policy, which was put into effect in January and requires Canadian truckers to be vaccinated in order to enter and exit the country on their routes.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, after four days of protests, police threatened to arrest truckers blockading the US border in Alberta unless they leave the area immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10468751\/CBC-spreading-conspiracy-theory-Russian-actors-trucker-vaccine-mandate-protests.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning that if the situation in Ukraine does deteriorate and war ensues, Canadian truckers can detained as suspected \u201cRussian agents\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":249010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,91,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-russia","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249130,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249129\/revisions\/249130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}