The organizers will not be able to stop extremists from doing their damage. If these factions have their way and cause trouble, the police will not have any option but to react.
Freedom convoy' needs to lose extreme rhetoric, says association head as truckers reach TorontoConvoy gathered at noon in Vaughan before heading east to KingstonCBC News · Posted: Jan 27, 2022
As a self-declared "Freedom Convoy" of truckers opposed to a federal vaccine mandate makes its way through the Toronto area en route to Parliament, the president of one trucking organization says the convoy's original message has been hijacked by far-right or extreme rhetoric.
"We're seeing signs calling our government communists and Nazis and comparing [the mandate] to the Holocaust. And if you're comparing this to the Holocaust, you need to educate yourself," Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada told CBC Radio's Metro Morning.
What began as a group of truckers against the cross-border trucking mandate has amassed the support of groups broadly opposed to public health measures in general, with some even calling for a Canadian version of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/freedom-convoy-truckers-1.6329870