Rowdy court behaviour part of 'cluster' of sovereign citizen activity ottnews ottawa
An Ottawa court appearance where a man declared he was the Crown points to the spread of the sovereign citizen movement, according to a professor who's been tracking it.
The associate professor of social work and criminology at Chatham University in Pittsburgh studies the phenomenon and said she has tracked its growth in 27 countries, including Canada. "It can result in matters taking longer," said Stephanie DiGiuseppe, a partner at the Toronto-based law firm Ruby Shiller Enenajor DiGiuseppe, and a director of the Criminal Lawyers' Association.
"We're sovereign citizens," he says at one point, adding, "everything that goes on in these courtrooms is fiction," a short time later. She also mentioned The United People of Canada , a controversial group with ties to the Freedom Convoy movement and the protest that shutdown a section of downtown Ottawa for weeks.
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