Opponents of Freedom Convoy Made Violent Threat Against Police, Ran Disinformation Campaign: Internal Email

Then-Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly speaks at a news conference in Ottawa, on Feb. 4, 2022. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press

The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) said on Jan. 26 that it was being targeted by a “disinformation campaign” by detractors of the Freedom Convoy and also threatened with violence, an internal email reveals.

Then-OPS chief Peter Sloly wrote to his team that there was information from his organization’s corporate communications and the Ottawa Police Association (OPA) that “there is a disinformation campaign from the counter demonstration element targeting OPS and OPA as being complicit in support of the trucker demonstration.”