The CBC reports:
On Friday, police began clearing those protesters out of the downtown. Ottawa police then tweeted a plea Saturday for people to “stop calling critical emergency and operational phone lines to express displeasure about the police action.”
Hillier retweeted that request, affixing his own message: “Keep calling in a democracy expressing yourself is a fundamental freedom #FreedomConvoy2022.” The post was encouraging people to ring up the police force’s “operational dispatch,” said Hillier.
His message was shared widely on Twitter, with many angry that Hillier would urge protesters to call emergency phone lines. Soon, #ArrestRandyHillier started trending.
The Press Progress reports:
Photos from a camping trip show Ontario MPP Randy Hillier posing with the flag of a far-right secessionist group linked to conspiracy to murder charges and firearms seized en route to the Coutts border blockade.
Hillier, the sitting MPP for Lanark–Frontenac–Kingston, who was kicked out of Doug Ford’s party for mocking parents of autistic children, has been one of the main political leaders of the convoy that has occupied downtown Ottawa for nearly three weeks.
Throughout the pandemic, Hillier has also been a top organizer against COVID-19 public health measures through his “No More Lockdowns” group, but photos suggest Hillier has increasingly courted the support of dangerous extremists.
Watch the clip below. Holy shit.
Photo shows Ontario MPP Randy Hillier with the flag of a group linked to an armed ‘Freedom Convoy’ plot.
The RCMP recently seized guns and charged four men with conspiracy to murder who had links to the neo-fascist Diagolon movement.https://t.co/yJJ01VeyQk #cdnpoli #ottnews
— PressProgress (@pressprogress) February 20, 2022
Keep calling in a democracy expressing yourself is a fundamental freedom #FreedomConvoy2022 https://t.co/oYCfEGgeIj
— Randy Hillier (@randyhillier) February 19, 2022
Calls emerge for arrest of ‘rogue’ Ottawa-area MPP https://t.co/9az8NZJEqP #ottnews #ottawa pic.twitter.com/P5yQ88nDsc
— CBC Ottawa (@CBCOttawa) February 21, 2022