User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/2022 protests timeline

'2022 Ottawa protests and occupation timeline' is a timeline of selected events related to the Freedom Convoy 2022 protests and subsequent occupation of Canada's national capital, that began Ottawa, Canada in January 2022 and transformed into a catalyst for other similar protests using similar tactics of the use of significant numbers of large vehicles to create gridlocks and block major arteries. This is not intended as a future article but as a means of managing reliable resources.

2018
2018 In a May 8 CBC's Metro Morning episode, Bernie Farber, chair of the newly-established Toronto, Ontario-based Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said that hate groups had been lower key in Canada until about 2008. By 2018, the number of hate groups in Canada was rising again mainly online, including through "through social media and chat rooms."

The network, which included over fifteen journalists, community leaders, academics, and legal experts, receives funding from the Government of Canada. CAHN provides information to journalists and the media, researchers, law enforcement, policy makers, and community organizations. The organization is modelled after and supported by the American Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It was formed in 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, by more than fifteen journalists, community leaders, academics, and legal experts, and receives funding from the Government of Canada. CAHN provides information to journalists and the media, researchers, law enforcement, policy makers, and community organizations. CAHN is modelled after and supported by the American Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

2020
throughout the pandemic

December 2 Associated Press fact-checked claims made by Roger Hodkinson, who identified himself on a phone call to a public meeting in Edmonton, Alberta as a pathologist was former chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee in Pathology. The College denied the claim. In the call, Hodkinson said that COVID-19 was a "hoax", it was just a very bad flu.

2021
February 24 During the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia, there were reports of conspiracy theorists threatening Henry with death threats.

September 22 The Ontario government announced a COVID-19 vaccine certification system that came into effect on 22 September. It was met with protests.

October 28 Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario Kieran Moore said that Ontario will not integrate a COVID-19 vaccine requirement into the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) "at present".

December The Chief Public Health Officer of Canada submitted their December 2021 120-page report, "A Vision to Transform Canada's Public Health System", in which they described how "in Canada and around the world, the social, political, and environmental conditions that created differential risks for COVID-19 overlapped with factors that drive inequities in non-communicable diseases". The report called for qualitative research methods to improve public health professionals' understanding of "social, cultural, and political aspects of a pandemic", including "what drives risk, what influences adherence to public health measures, which unintended consequences might arise from public health actions, and how to better create community buy-in for public health initiatives."

August 2021 Vaccine mandates were the next line of defense against the increasing "risk of spread and importation of COVID-19". They were to be introduced only when the combined methods of masks, social distancing, hand-washing, quarantines, temporary lockdownsand in the last several monthsvaccinations, had proved to be insufficient for the safe re-opening of societies and economies.

mid-December Canada United posted the Memorandum of Understanding on their website and sent copies to the Governor General of Canada and the Canadian Senate.

until its February 8 retraction. Bauder, whose name is at the top of a CTV News' list of "major players" in the convoy, is the founder of Canada Unity. CTV cited Bauder saying that he hoped the signed MoU would convince Elections Canada to trigger an election, which is not constitutionally possible. In this pseudolegal document, CU called on the "SCGGC" to cease all vaccine mandates, reemploy all employees terminated due to vaccination status, and rescind all fines imposed for non-compliance with public health orders. If this failed, the MoU called on the "SCGGC" to dissolve the government, and name members of the CU to form a Canadian Citizens Committee (CCC), which is beyond the constitutional powers of either the Governor General or the Senate. The original MoU contained no specific mention of cross-border truckers as it had originally been drafted and delivered over a month earlier, but then was reissued for the protest. Canada Unity hoped a million Canadians would sign their names to the MoU.

2022
January 29 Canadian Trucking Alliance said many of the supporters at the protest in Ottawa had no direct connection to the trucking industry.

February 3 Ottawa mayor Jim Watson submitted a request for help for additional resources to the Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino.

February 3 Following a phone call with Mayor Watson, Mendicino said, "The convoy in Ottawa has caused significant disruption to local residents – including vandalism, harassment, expressions of hate and violence and ongoing obstruction of many essential services. The community is entitled to expect that the law is upheld and enforced by police, and that public safety is maintained." During a CBC television interview, Mendicino said, "We put the question of vaccines and vaccine mandates on the ballot ... in the (2021) election and we're simply carrying out the promise that we made with the support of the vast majority of Canadians." He said that "government would not back down on the issue".

February 6 Mayor Watson Watson said that "demonstrators outnumbered police and controlled the situation."

February 6 Mayor Watson declared a state of emergency in response to the "unprecedented 10-day occupation". In his statement he said, that this "reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations and highlights the need for support from other jurisdictions and levels of government."

February 6 Sunday Day 10 The "Freedom Convoy 2022 Fund Raiser" Facebook group was started on Facebook.

February 7 An Ottawa judge, Justice Hugh McLean, granted a ten-day interim injunction to "silence the honking horns" as requested by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client, Zexi Li, in their proposed class-action lawsuit filed at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

In their February 7 statement, Teamsters Canadarepresenting more than 55,000 professional drivers, including approximately 15,000 long-haul truck drivers, of which 90% are vaccinated, said that the so-called “freedom convoy” are "delegitimiz[ing] the real concerns of most truck drivers today". The statement said that the convoy and "the despicable display of hate lead by the political Right and shamefully encouraged by elected conservative politicians does not reflect the values of Teamsters Canada."

February 7 Monday, Day 11 Facebook parent Meta Platforms said it had removed one convoy protest-associated Facebook group for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. Meta also "removed dozens" of "spammer" and "scammer" "groups, pages and accounts" that claimed ties to the truck convoy protest.

February 7 Self-declared spokesperson Tom Marazzo said at "emergency press conference" that he was proposing that a "core group of organizers and their supporters could sit at a table “with the Conservatives, and the NDP, and the Bloc as a coalition."

February 8, Tuesday,

February 10 The Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario, Dr. Kieran Moore, said that there was a "remarkable improvement" in "all of key metrics" in the province that will lead to a review of all COVID-19 "public health measures" which includes "mask mandates and proof of vaccination."