Canada border officials warned of threat to ‘attack 2 schools’ amid convoy: memo – National

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) warned in a situational report during the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that an individual in Germany and his group of “freedom fighters” had allegedly planned to attack two schools in Ontario.

The internal report, which was made public during the Public Order Emergency Inquiry hearings, shared a number of threats the CBSA and RCMP were assessing during the convoy protest that snarled downtown Ottawa and two major border crossings earlier this year.

Under the subheading “Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism,” the report describes information its authors received the morning of Feb. 14 “regarding individual in Germany who said he and a group of freedom fighters will attack two schools in Ontario in the next few weeks.”

The document, published Feb. 16 — two days after the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act — notes there was “no open source info available” about the individual, adding that the threat was being assessed and the RCMP were “aware” of it.

The same situational report also described the southern Ontario CBSA had received multiple threats “from an individual threatening to ‘wage war’ in Canada.” That person, the document says, had indicated that they planned to attend the protest in Ottawa.

“The individual also threatens that ‘no border can stop him’. These threats remain uncorroborated,” the document added.

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An additional concern the CBSA had, according to the report, was that “both criminal actors and migrants” might use the protests as a way to “illegally cross the border into Canada.”