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were a pro-oil industry movement calling for the construction of pipelines and protesting against the carbon tax. They were also critical of federal legislation that sought to change energy projects' environmental review process and legislation to ban oil tankers off the north coast of
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government attempting to buy off the media in an election year and conspire with social media companies to censor our speech. We CANNOT have a free and democratic society unless WE HAVE FREE SPEECH and the ability to express it as far and wide as we wish...We are
Canadian Patriots who refuse to allow this country to walk down the path of Tyranny."
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