Speaking to a gathering on Saturday, a director of the group asserted that an eviction notice served this past week was invalid.
But TUPOC director Will Komer said St. Brigid’s owners didn’t cash the rent cheques they’d been given, something he said was a violation of Ontario’s Human Rights Code. Instead, the group obtained bank drafts to prove it had the money to pay.
Sunday’s briefing by TUPOC followed another public meeting on Saturday that was live streamed on Facebook and continually disrupted by hecklers.Article content All three have been critical of TUPOC and its plans for an “embassy” at St. Brigid’s, with Mayor Jim Watson describing the group as “sort of kooky” in a radio interview.
TUPOC says it’s not affiliated with the February “Freedom Convoy” occupation and merely wants to use the former church as a community space, but vehicles at the site Sunday were decked out in the same anti-government flags and slogans seen during the February occupation of downtown. TUPOC supporters complained about masking and vaccine mandates during the “scandemic” and several verbally harassed reporters at Sunday’s event.
In her live stream on Saturday, Nolan said she previously did street ministry among the homeless in Ottawa and loaded her speech with talk of God and Christian references. She called the rent dispute a “Red Sea Moment” that is a predicament that will be solved with God’s intervention, and made references to “the seven mountains.”Article content
“It seems like it’s all smoke and mirrors,” she said. “They’re not very good at articulating what their message is. They say they’re not part of the ‘Freedom Convoy,’ but they can’t explain why so many cars in their parking lot have ‘Freedom Convoy’ messages on them.”
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