Brigitte Belton is a Canadian truck driver who started the
Canada convoy protest.
Career and activism
Belton is a truck driver.
On 16 November 2021
Canadian Border Services Agency
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officers refused Belton entry to Canada at the
Detroit-Windor due to her failure to wear a face mask.
At the October 2022
Public Order Emergency Commission
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, commission lawyer Stephen Armstrong stated that Belton vented her frustration via her
TikTok
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feed before using the platform to connect with
Chris Barber
Donald Christopher "Chris" Barber OBE (17 April 1930 – 2 March 2021) was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. He helped many musicians with their careers and had a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with " Petite Fl ...
and then later initiating the planning of the Canada convoy protest.
Armstrong said that Belton, Chris Barber, and
James Bauder
James Ralph Bauder (born 1969 or 1970) is a Albertan truck driver, the cofounder of Canada Unity and an organizer of the Canada convoy protest.
Biography
Bauder (born 1969 or 1970) is truck driver, married to Sandra Bauder.
Bauder was involve ...
all took part in a
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event on January 13, 2022 to plan the protest's route and logistics.
The next day,
Tamara Lich
Tamara Lich is a former logistics worker, and a Canadian right-wing activist known for her involvement in the Yellow Vest protests, the Wexit movement, and the Canada convoy protest in Ottawa.
Lich was among the organizers of the Yellow Ve ...
started the fundraiser for the protest.
Belton was one of the first witnesses to testify at the
Public Order Emergency Commission
The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC; ), also known as the Rouleau inquiry or the Inquiry into Emergencies Act was a public inquiry in Canada that investigated the invoking of the '' Emergencies Act'' on February 14, 2022 by the gover ...
in October 2022.
During her testimony she questioned how fellow protest leader
Tamara Lich
Tamara Lich is a former logistics worker, and a Canadian right-wing activist known for her involvement in the Yellow Vest protests, the Wexit movement, and the Canada convoy protest in Ottawa.
Lich was among the organizers of the Yellow Ve ...
would spend money raised to support the convoy protest,
and was critical of a decision to buy a decommissioned church in Ottawa. In July 2022, Belton's social media connected Tamara Lich to the pending purchase of
Saint Brigid's Church in Ottawa, which was being occupied by
The United People of Canada.
In May 2022, Belton was selected as the
Ontario Party's candidate for the
Elgin-Middlesex-London riding. She won 234 votes, representing 2.6% of the votes cast, losing to
Rob Flack
Rob Flack is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Elgin—Middlesex—London as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
F ...
.
Personal life
Belton is from
Wallaceburg
Wallaceburg ( 2016 population 10,098) is an unincorporated community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in Southern (Southwestern) Ontario, Canada. Originally a small settlement, it was recognized for its significant contribution to the lumber ...
, Ontario.
She is not vaccinated for COVID-19.
She is married, and is both a mother and a grandmother.
See also
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Pat King
Patrick John King (1944 – January 25, 2022) also known as Speedy King, was a Scottish bassist, best known for his association with Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
History
King was born in Aberdeen in 1944 and raised in Fraserburgh, Scotland.
Afte ...
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Timeline of the Canada convoy protest
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian anti-vaccination activists
Canadian truck drivers
Protesters involved in the Canada convoy protest