Coutts Villagers Still Divided on Protest Blockade Months After, Says Mayor

Anti-mandate demonstrators gather as a truck convoy blocks the highway to the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., on Jan. 31, 2022. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

The community in the small border village of Coutts, Alberta, is still divided over the protest blockade that occurred last winter, its mayor told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Wednesday.

“We still have neighbours that won’t talk to each other,” Mayor Jim Willett testified.