Freedom Convoy Organizer Chris Barber Speaks of Power Struggles, Competing Visions Within Protest Movement

Freedom Convoy Organizer Chris Barber Speaks of Power Struggles, Competing Visions Within Protest Movement
(L-R) JCCF Lawyer Keith Wilson, along with Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, hold a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 3., 2022. NTD
Noé Chartier
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One of the initiators of the Freedom Convoy protest in February said there were power struggles within the movement, and while his main purpose was to have the vaccine mandate for truckers repealed, other organizers had other interests.

“There’s different organizations that came and went. ... It was a power struggle a lot of the time,” Chris Barber told the Public Order Emergency Commission, the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act, on Nov. 1.

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Noé Chartier is a senior reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times. Twitter: @NChartierET
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