Many players behind truckers’ convoy protest, Hillier says 50 people ‘in various control rooms or war rooms in hotels around the city’

Many of the main organizers of the ongoing occupation of downtown Ottawa that has sparked other blockades to pop up around the country have links to other far-right movements and a history of resisting COVID-19 restrictions.
Tom Marazzo, centre, pictured at a news conference on Feb. 8, is one of the spokespeople for the so-called 'Freedom Convoy.'
They say they seek freedom from government control over their lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and have been enormously disruptive in the capital for more than two weeks now as they convey that message by placing Ottawa’s downtown core under siege. But the truckers’ protest is not being led ...

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