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OTTAWA (AP) – Police wearing helmets and shields made several arrests Friday night in Canada’s capital after facing off against protesters opposed to COVID-19 mandates.

Ontario provincial parliament member Randy Hillier surrendered to Ottawa police Monday and is facing nine criminal charges.

An advisor to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has alleged that the government was justified in invoking emergency powers last month, claiming Freedom Convoy protestors wanted to overthrow the government.

Justin Trudeau has faced criticism after he was photographed on Monday wearing a mask for Labour’s leader Keir Starmer but opted not to wear one while meeting 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II.

Businesses in the Canadian capital city of Ottawa say they will keep the Trudeau government’s scrapped vaccine passport system, allocating certain times in which only vaccinated people may enter.

Canada’s CTV News on Tuesday reported that Freedom Convoy protesters driven from downtown Ottawa by this weekend’s police action are “regrouping” on private property around the city, as they evidently planned in advance.

Measures taken against Freedom Convoy demonstrators and their supporters are “exactly [like] the Chinese social credit system,” according to Canadian political commentator Ezra Levant, who warned that such a system “could come to America just as easy as the rest of the martial law.”

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that governmental restrictions on human rights in Canada highlight the importance of protecting constitutional rights in America on the Wednesday edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.

A Canadian parliament committee met Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the Emergencies Act, with one official admitting it was possible bank accounts of small donors to the Freedom Convoy were frozen. The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

Breitbart News spoke with Dimitrios, George, and John — three Canadian demonstrators from Toronto — during the Freedom Convoy gathering in Ottawa, ON, on Thursday.

Candice Sero, the woman trampled by mounted police last Friday when they moved in to break up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, gave an interview to Canada’s Rebel News published on Monday. 

Canadian MP Ya’ara Saks said “honk, honk” is “an acronym for ‘Heil Hitler'” during House of Commons proceedings on Thursday.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on Saturday proposed selling trucks and other vehicles seized during the police’s violent dismantling of the Freedom Convoy, stating that it was the Canadian capital’s legal right due to the Trudeau’s government shocking invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Canada’s far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing intense media scrutiny after police brutalized peaceful protesters in Ottawa this weekend.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the official watchdog group for the province, said this weekend it is investigating an incident in which a mounted police officer trampled a woman during police action to break up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa on Friday.

Police in Ottawa confirmed 191 arrests of Freedom Convoy protestors on Sunday after a weekend crackdown on the movement, issuing 391 charges for various offences including mischief and obstructing police.

Ottawa police on Sunday night claimed the Freedom Convoy that took to the streets across the Canadian capital is finished, before adding strict security measures and checkpoints remain in place to bolster “community healing.”

The Canadian authorities have made dozens more arrests in the capital city of Ottawa as they move to crush the anti-vaccine mandate Freedom Convoy.

Washingont, DC National Guard members have received an order to be prepared to occupy various locations in the district ahead of a trucker convoy.

Police aggressively pushed back protesters, took control of some trucks and advanced toward Parliament on Saturday after arresting more than 100 people and towing away vehicles in Canada’s besieged capital. Scores of trucks left under the increasing pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions.

Canadian police have taken a hardline approach in an effort to break up the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, with at least 100 arrested and mounted police trampling protesters on Friday.

Canadian service members taking part or voicing support for the trucker protests against vaccine mandates are being investigated, according to a Canadian news outlet.

A leading organiser of the Freedom Convoy protestors in Ottawa claimed on Friday that police are surrounding protestors and conducting mass arrests, while not allowing people to leave the area peacefully.

Demonstrators supporting the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa locked arms to block law enforcement’s advancement towards Parliament Hill on Friday.

Chris Barber, one of the top organizers of the Canadian Freedom Convoy protests that have rocked Ottawa in recent weeks, has been arrested and will likely face criminal charges.

The city of Ottawa threatened in a statement Thursday to place the pets of Freedom Convoy protestors into “protective care” or possibly take them away permanently if their owners are arrested.

“This is not Canada, anymore, this is a communist country,” said Christian, a Romanian-Canadian trucker with the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

Ottawa police officers began distributing flyers on Wednesday threatening to arrest those they believe to be Freedom Convoy demonstrators.

“I came here to pray for our prime minister … to make the right decision,” Mariusz, a retired military police officer, said in Ottawa.

Breitbart News confirmed on Monday that the CBC is contacting Canadians whose personal details were leaked following a reported hack of GiveSendGo donor information related to a fundraiser for the Freedom Convoy.

Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly resigned from his position Tuesday after weeks of continued protests against Wuhan coronavirus restrictions by Freedom Convoy truckers, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers.

Wayne, a Freedom Convoy supporter in Ottawa, told Breitbart News nobody should “suffer from isolation” or “be stigmatized” for personal medical decisions.

Wayne, a demonstrator supporting the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, ON, told Breitbart News on Saturday that families are being “destroyed” by divisions related to the politics of COVID-19.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time to squash the ongoing Freedom Convoy protests against Wuhan coronavirus restrictions, potentially giving the Canadian leader sweeping emergency powers.

Health Canada (HC) and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) employees were directed not to express views “critical” of the government.

The Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the U.S. remains blocked by Canadian demonstrators on Saturday night, over 24 hours after a deadline issued by a Ontario Superior Court Justice Geoffrey Morawetz via injunction to restrain individuals from blocking the bridge between Windsor, ON, and Detroit, MI.

Justin Trudeau held an “Incident Response Group” meeting on Saturday regarding what he called “illegal blockades and occupations.”

“We’re not free anymore,” Ryan, a truck driver from Manitoba with the Freedom Convoy, told Breitbart News on Thursday in Ottawa, ON.

Canadian Conservative Party MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre expressed support for the Freedom Convoy protesters.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said on Wednesday he has no idea when the Freedom Convoy trucker protests that have clogged the streets of the Canadian capital for the past two weeks will end.