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Why did police treat the far-right occupation of Ottawa and supportive convoys across Canada with kid gloves? We spoke to community organizers Audrey Redman and Jaggi Singh about their experiences countering the convoy protests in Edmonton and Montreal, and why police sympathy with the convoy's far-right politics highlights a systemic problem.

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