{"id":695227,"date":"2026-04-14T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695227"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:23:07","slug":"freedom-convoy-2-0-canadian-born-cop-in-ireland-threatens-protesting-truckers-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695227","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Convoy 2.0? Canadian-born cop in Ireland threatens protesting truckers, farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Conservative pundit Ezra Levant noted that \u2018Ireland&#8217;s deputy police commissioner is from Toronto,&#8217; commenting that<em> \u2018Canada is a net exporter of civil liberties violations.\u2019<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>The protests are reminiscent of the Canadian 2022 Freedom Convoy, which clogged Ottawa for three weeks with hundreds of trucks and other vehicles parked around Parliament Hill. They are reminiscent for another reason, as well: On Thursday, the Irish government invoked \u201cAid to the Civil Power\u201d (ATCP), which is essentially Ireland\u2019s version of Canada\u2019s Emergency Measures Act. While this is not quite a declaration of martial law, <em><strong>the government has called in the military to assist the police in removing protestors.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s leaders will have to decide whether to negotiate with increasingly desperate and cash-strapped citizens \u2013 or to initiate a Trudeau-style crackdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/freedom-convoy-2-0-canadian-born-cop-in-ireland-threatens-protesting-truckers-farmers\/?utm_source=digest-freedom-2026-04-13&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/freedom-convoy-2-0-canadian-born-cop-in-ireland-threatens-protesting-truckers-farmers\/?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative pundit Ezra Levant noted that \u2018Ireland&#8217;s deputy police commissioner is from Toronto,&#8217; commenting that \u2018Canada is a net exporter of civil liberties violations.\u2019 The protests are reminiscent of the Canadian 2022 Freedom Convoy, which clogged Ottawa for three weeks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695228,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695227\/revisions\/695228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}