When Canadian Armed Forces veteran James Topp and his small crew strolled into the southern Alberta municipality of Fort MacLeod on March 31, they reached a significant milestone on their journey to Ottawa to protest government mandates and an erosion of Canadian freedoms: 1,000 kilometres. Topp launched his Canada Marches movement on Feb. 20 at the Terry Fox Plaza in Vancouver, the plan being to travel the 4,293 kilometres to the nation’s capital all on foot “in peaceful protest against government mandates trampling personal freedoms,” according to his website. Rotating between five pairs of shoes during the past 43 days, outside of the rare blister the journey has been rewarding and fruitful and the support has been overwhelming, he said. “Along the way, we’ve gotten such support,” Topp told The Epoch Times. “Folks have opened their homes to us where they’ve got space that had enough room for us. There …