Tamara Lich vs. Pat King: A tale of two convoy protest leaders /via globeandmail
. They both expressed a sort of remorseful puzzlement that people in Ottawa felt inconvenienced or threatened by the convoy, because they maintained the protesters never intended to bother anyone.
They also insisted that from the inside, the whole thing was one big emotional bouncy castle. “I’ve never seen anything more loving and peaceful in my life,” Mr. King said with awe. “It was Woodstock.”Convoy protests raised $24-million, but the vast majority was refunded or placed in escrow Even though Mr. King was banished to the wings in the convoy’s own self-mythology, he said something this week that seemed like an important distillation of how his fellow protesters saw themselves, as compared with the exhausted and enraged residents of Ottawa, or anyone else watching from across the country and not honking in support.
A commission lawyer asked Mr. King at one point about a video in which he chortled that it was “pretty hilarious” that people in the protest zone hadn’t slept for 10 days. Mr. King at first mumbled half an apology, before doubling down on the idea that it“You see, we’d been locked down for two years, and people are complaining that they heard horns for 10 days?” he said incredulously, turning to appeal to the audience in the hearing room, most of whom were convoy supporters.
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