Convoy organizers discussed playing ‘race card’ with Lich’s Métis heritage
, who has spread racist conspiracy theories, as well as the appearance of Nazi and Confederate flags in the early days of the protest, prompted accusations that it was sympathetic to white nationalist causes.
The protest against COVID-19 restrictions and the Liberal government swarmed the capital’s downtown with large trucks, blocking streets and blaring loud horns for more than three weeks. Protesters also blockaded multiple border crossings. It all prompted the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act and the police to use force to clear the crowd.
The conversations between the pair appear to illuminate their shifting feelings about King. He is known for boosting the white nationalist “great replacement theory,” predicated on an anxiety that white people are being replaced. On Jan. 29, the day after the convoy arrived in the capital, Barber messaged Lich about an interview King had done.
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