Lich and follow convoy organizer Chris Barber are scheduled to stand trial in Ottawa starting Tuesday for their role in the three-week protest that overtook the streets around downtown and sparked a national emergency declaration.

In the final days of the demonstration, as police began to order people to leave, organizers and supporters used “hold the line” as a rallying cry, as words of encouragement and as a salutation.

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    They blocked the city, filled the air with toxic fumes, left excrement on the streets, were not allowing people to sleep in their own homes and all this for 3 weeks. Let me remind you that private companies didnt want to tow the trucks and it took police forces from multiple places in Canada to remove the protestors, the Ottawa police force didnt have a chance to do it on its own. The state of emergency was justified.

    edit: typos

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      They blocked the city

      Don’t recall, if true it is based

      filled the air with toxic fumes

      Really? Thats your complaint, climate change?

      left excrement on the streets

      False

      were not allowing people to sleep in their own homes and all this for 3 weeks.

      False

      Let me remind you that private companies didnt want to tow the trucks

      Based

      it took police forces from multiple places in Canada to remove the protestors, the Ottawa police force didnt have a chance to do it on its own.

      So? It was a peaceful protest, not a fiery but peaceful protest. What the police did was just plain wrong, regardless of them following orders.

      The state of emergency was justified.

      Your all in favor of using state force to crush a peaceful protest and freeze bank accounts? WTF man? What is wrong with you?

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        Oh no, he said “false”, he got me, I hope the convoy lawyers dont use that one.