A spokesperson for the Quebec group Farfadaas testified before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Tuesday and disputed repeated claims heard in recent weeks that the group was blocking a key intersection in Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest of last winter.
“We didn’t occupy Rideau and Sussex,” Steeve Charland told the commission a number of times.
The issue was brought to him repeatedly, and in different ways, which led Commissioner Paul Rouleau to interject to say Charland had addressed it.
Charland admitted that it’s possible that there could have been members of his group in the area, but said he wasn’t aware of any effort from his group to hold that area….