Where has the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ gone? A former church in downtown Ottawa has been rechristened as the “embassy” for a group called The United People of Canada, Susan Delacourt writes.
The United People of Canada, a new organization now operating out of a historic former church in downtown Ottawa, is very keen to talk about last winter’s so-called “Freedom Convoy.”
a few years ago, incidentally, it is also the church Justin Trudeau attended as a child and where he received his confirmation ceremony.revealed himself to the Ottawa Citizen Frankly, it is much easier to get a clear answer on what TUPOC says it is not. William Komer, one of three registered directors of TUPOC, generously spent nearly an hour on the phone with me this week, making plain that his organization is not a Trojan horse for the “Freedom Convoy,” despite a series of small-world connections to some key figures from those strange few weeks in Ottawa.
“We have had a lot of hate mail, and people, you know, sending us stuff,” he says. “There was a lot of what I would consider, from my perspective, harassing material online. Again, we have engaged with the police there. We know there were some poultry products that were thrown at the property.” “Even if I did support the protest, which I did not, what does that personal belief have anything to do with the United People of Canada and its mission to restore and adaptively reuse surplus and underutilized institutional properties into vibrant and inclusive community spaces?”
All of that still lurks in and around Ottawa in particular and politics writ large. The convoy and its vague cause has simmered inside the federal Conservative leadership race, where the front-runner has boldly attached himself to the convoy’s anti-vaccination mandate message and posed for photos with convoy fans and participants.
I took a drive out to the shop a few days later. I’m not naming it here, for fear of unleashing another round of vitriol, but it was an interesting visit. The owner who had posed with Trudeau in the social-media post was nowhere in sight, but the employees talked about how taken aback they were with the abuse in the wake of his visit.
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