James Top, a veteran who is marching across Canada to protest the remaining vaccine orders, is due to finish his trip on June 30, but drove to Ottawa on Wednesday to attend the meetings.
He was joined by Paul Alexander, a former government official to President Donald Trump, and Tom Marazzo, who served 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces and had a failed bid for Ontario MPP.
Marazzo was invited by James Bauder to come and help run the Freedom Convoy during demonstrations in Ottawa earlier this year.
Bauder, who faces charges in Ottawa and has continued to protest in British Columbia since leaving the city in February, is responsible for setting up the team and the Canada Unity website that helped develop the original escort plan to come to Ottawa.
James Top started walking in Ottawa in February, inspired by the Freedom convoy and annoyed, he says, by the government’s exaggeration. (CBC)
Daniel Bullford, another organizer who helped coordinate the Freedom Escort, was also present at the meetings on Wednesday.
Bulford is a former RCMP officer who dealt with the prime minister’s security before resigning after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He was the security chief of the escort and boasted that he had strong ties to the police.
Taking place in a government building near Parliament Hill shortly after Ottawa suspended vaccination orders for federal staff and passengers traveling to Canada, Alexander told lawmakers that “the COVID-19 pandemic is over” and criticized what For example, blaming lockdowns for a May 24 shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Top told lawmakers that some groups formed by the Freedom Talks had found themselves under an umbrella to continue the protests.
“Their issue is no longer so much with the orders, it is their satisfaction with the federal government,” Top said. “There is a gap in this country that I have never seen or experienced before – I have only seen it in a war zone.”
Top was supported in communities as he traveled around the country and many are expected to gather in Ottawa on June 30 to be there when he officially finishes his course. About 20 deputies greeted him at a meeting he described as “well received”.
“I understand that they have loaded programs, I’m sure things are happening in the background that I do not know, it is their job and not mine,” he said. “The fact is that those who showed up here gave us the courtesy and acknowledged what it took to get into the room.”
Cypress Hills-Grasslands MP Jeremy Patzer offered his support to Topp and his team, saying it was a message he tried to get out of it as well.
A handful of CCP MPs with James Top, Danny Bullford, Tom Marazzo in a parliament building – posing for photos, shaking hands before the formal procedures begin. Topp is a key figure in the ongoing Freedom Movement that comes from pic.twitter.com/EcaB7dMJFO
– @ DCFraser
“These are ordinary average citizens who have concerns. As Members of Parliament, if we are not willing to listen to the concerns of the average person, then we fail to do our job,” he told the CBC.
“I urge all members of parliament, regardless of their political affiliation, to be willing to listen and listen to the voices of people like this, because they have a message that they want to be heard and we must be willing to listen to them. “
He added that he would “meet anyone who wants to meet with me who has a concern” and said the group has no extremist views.
“I am not willing to demonize or accept this narrative that people who have views that other people do not agree with, that they should be demonized because they have those views,” he said.
During the escort earlier this year, some CCP lawmakers met with protesters stationed near Parliament Hill, but others, including the prime minister, did not.
In all, about 20 lawmakers – all from the CPC parliamentary group – were present on Wednesday, including hopeful leaders Leslyn Lewis, Warren Steinley, John Barlow, Ryan Williams, Dean Allison and Arnold Viersen.
Top said he invited all lawmakers to attend.
title: “Cpc Mps Meet With Freedom Convoy Organizers " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-03” author: “Mark Richer”
James Top, a veteran who is marching across Canada to protest the remaining vaccine orders, is due to finish his trip on June 30, but drove to Ottawa on Wednesday to attend the meetings.
He was joined by Paul Alexander, a former government official to President Donald Trump, and Tom Marazzo, who served 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces and had a failed bid for Ontario MPP.
Marazzo was invited by James Bauder to come and help run the Freedom Convoy during demonstrations in Ottawa earlier this year.
Bauder, who faces charges in Ottawa and has continued to protest in British Columbia since leaving the city in February, is responsible for setting up the team and the Canada Unity website that helped develop the original escort plan to come to Ottawa.
James Top started walking in Ottawa in February, inspired by the Freedom convoy and annoyed, he says, by the government’s exaggeration. (CBC)
Daniel Bullford, another organizer who helped coordinate the Freedom Escort, was also present at the meetings on Wednesday.
Bulford is a former RCMP officer who dealt with the prime minister’s security before resigning after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He was the security chief of the escort and boasted that he had strong ties to the police.
Taking place in a government building near Parliament Hill shortly after Ottawa suspended vaccination orders for federal staff and passengers traveling to Canada, Alexander told lawmakers that “the COVID-19 pandemic is over” and criticized what For example, blaming lockdowns for a May 24 shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Top told lawmakers that some groups formed by the Freedom Talks had found themselves under an umbrella to continue the protests.
“Their issue is no longer so much with the orders, it is their satisfaction with the federal government,” Top said. “There is a gap in this country that I have never seen or experienced before – I have only seen it in a war zone.”
Top was supported in communities as he traveled around the country and many are expected to gather in Ottawa on June 30 to be there when he officially finishes his course. About 20 deputies greeted him at a meeting he described as “well received”.
“I understand that they have loaded programs, I’m sure things are happening in the background that I do not know, it is their job and not mine,” he said. “The fact is that those who showed up here gave us the courtesy and acknowledged what it took to get into the room.”
Cypress Hills-Grasslands MP Jeremy Patzer offered his support to Topp and his team, saying it was a message he tried to get out of it as well.
A handful of CCP MPs with James Top, Danny Bullford, Tom Marazzo in a parliament building – posing for photos, shaking hands before the formal procedures begin. Topp is a key figure in the ongoing Freedom Movement that comes from pic.twitter.com/EcaB7dMJFO
– @ DCFraser
“These are ordinary average citizens who have concerns. As Members of Parliament, if we are not willing to listen to the concerns of the average person, then we fail to do our job,” he told the CBC.
“I urge all members of parliament, regardless of their political affiliation, to be willing to listen and listen to the voices of people like this, because they have a message that they want to be heard and we must be willing to listen to them. “
He added that he would “meet anyone who wants to meet with me who has a concern” and said the group has no extremist views.
“I am not willing to demonize or accept this narrative that people who have views that other people do not agree with, that they should be demonized because they have those views,” he said.
During the escort earlier this year, some CCP lawmakers met with protesters stationed near Parliament Hill, but others, including the prime minister, did not.
In all, about 20 lawmakers – all from the CPC parliamentary group – were present on Wednesday, including hopeful leaders Leslyn Lewis, Warren Steinley, John Barlow, Ryan Williams, Dean Allison and Arnold Viersen.
Top said he invited all lawmakers to attend.