Many claims have been made by government and media about Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa committing serious crimes such as arson, threatening rape, or being bankrolled by Vladimir Putin, but most if not all have been unsubstantiated or debunked.
On April 2, Conservative MP Dane Lloyd released a video analysis of his interaction with Ottawa Police Service (OPS) interim chief Steve Bell during a House committee meeting in which he grilled Bell about allegations of loaded firearms being found at the site of the Ottawa protest.
“I’m asking [Bell] a ‘yes or no’ question, and he’s really trying to avoid it, but he did just confirm that no loaded shotguns were found at the protests, which I think is very interesting because we’ve seen from police sources, from the media, from even members of the government claiming that the truckers were committing acts of arson, that they had found firearms,” says Lloyd in the video, relating to an exchange that occurred during a meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety on March 24.
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