[dforest]

I had to laugh when I saw what the “weapons” that got a man arrested.

A collapsible baton and a folding knife.

[Steve_Seattle]

"A collapsible baton and a folding knife."

It sounds like Canadian officials are taking a page from the left's January 6th playbook: take a protest characterized by patriots proudly flying their country's flag and peaceably expressing their grievances and smear it by focusing on ONE person (probably a plant) with a Confederate flag, arrest a guy for carrying piddly "weapons" and calling it an "armed" movement, smear it as racist and Islamophobic, and circulate rumors about mysterious arms caches and sinister "plans" that aren't specified.