Military spies say convoy blockade poses ‘no security threat’ to Defence Department – APTN News

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Canada’s military spies, who have scrutinized Indigenous-led protests for years, say they aren’t worried about the nearly two-week-old blockade of Parliament Hill and surrounding neighbourhoods by activists opposing vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.

Protesters with the trucker-led convoy occupying downtown Ottawa had, at one point, built a makeshift shack to use as a staging area where they were stockpiling jerry cans of fuel and propane tanks in Confederation Park.

The camp, now moved, was directly across the Rideau Canal from Department of National Defence (DND) headquarters, where senior officials and the military’s national security counter-intelligence unit are based, though the unit says it wasn’t concerned.

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