Freedom Convoy Organizer Chris Barber Speaks of Power Struggles, Competing Visions Within Protest Movement
One of the initiators of the Freedom Convoy last winter said there were power struggles within the movement and while his main purpose was to have the vaccine mandate for truckers repealed, other organizers had other interests.
“There’s different organizations that came and went … it was a power struggle a lot of the time,” Chris Barber told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 1.
Barber, a trucker and owner of a small trucking business out of Saskatchewan, said he was at the origin of the Freedom Convoy.
His videos on social media criticizing the decision of the federal government to impose vaccination on truckers at the U.S. border in January, and suggestions about taking action against it, caught the attention of other truckers, including Brigitte Belton….