While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is expected to drive a wave of Moscow-sponsored online disinformation in the coming weeks and months, constitutional disinformation dominated much of the discussion in Ottawa during the occupation of the downtown core by anti-vaccine mandate protesters.
Many protesters upset with vaccine mandates came to Ottawa with a flawed understanding of the limits of constitutional freedoms and how the Westminster parliamentary system works.
The protesters who blockaded the city waved copies of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the air while chanting “freedom, freedom” in the faces of police officers and citizens trying to go about
