The community in the small border village of Coutts, Alberta, is still divided over the protest blockade that occurred last winter, its mayor told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Wednesday.
“We still have neighbours that won’t talk to each other,” Mayor Jim Willett testified.
He assessed the community was split 70-30 regarding the blockade, with the majority being supportive.
“We had a lot of … sympathetic people in the village who figured it was our duty to feed everybody,” Willett said.
Protesters started impeding traffic at the Canada-U.S. border crossing in Coutts on Jan. 29.
Their grievances against COVID-19 restrictions were similar to the trucker-led Freedom Convoy protesters who started arriving in Ottawa around the same time….