As police moved to clear the convoy protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa last winter, a confidential police intelligence report warned that freedom movement protests were a long-term security threat and that “foreign adversaries” may have tried to leverage the protest.
In a Feb. 19 report from the Ontario Provincial Police’s Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau, analysts raised the spectre of foreign influence in the protest.
“The available information suggests that foreign adversaries may have attempted to leverage the freedom movement blockades and protests to protect or enhance their own strategic economic and political interests,” analysts wrote in the 12-page report, made public by
