Tue Mar 22, 2022 – 8:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian police said a deliberate arson attack that occurred near Canada’s parliament in Ottawa last month had nothing to do with the Freedom Convoy despite the protesters being blamed earlier by some politicians.
“A man has been charged in relation to a deliberately set fire in an apartment building on Lisgar Street on February 6, 2022. A second man is still wanted by police,” Ottawa Police said yesterday in a news release.
“There is no information indicating MCDONALD was involved in any way with the Convoy protest which was going on when this arson took place.”
Police charged 21-year-old Connor Russell McDonald with arson for his involvement with the attack.
The arson attack took place while the Freedom Convoy was in its early days of protesting COVID mandates in downtown Ottawa.
The Freedom Convoy for three weeks in late January to early February protested in the nation’s capital to demand an end to all COVID mandates, before being forced out by police armed with extraordinary powers given to them by the Emergencies Act (EA).
Multiple mainstream media outlets along with the mayor of Ottawa and
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