‘Too much confusion’ at political, police levels during trucker protest, says former Harper-era minister Fantino

Julian Fantino says Ottawa needed a co-ordinated, united police front during the Freedom Convoy occupation, but didn't have one until the end.

Police, pictured Feb. 17, 2022, arresting a man on Wellington Street during the Freedom Convoy’s occupation of downtown Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

November 4, 2022

Twelve years ago, in 2010, future federal Conservative cabinet minister Julian Fantino was commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police when G8 leaders met in the small town of Huntsville, Ont., tucked in Muskoka country. The security challenges there were significant, but not quite as enormous as...

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