Who are the Coutts Four?
A power lineman, the owner of a small construction company, a master electrician, and a contractor.
Gord Magill has a lengthy article over at Newsweek titled Meet the Four Men Being Held as Political Prisoners in Canada. These individuals are jointly accused of conspiring to murder police officers during a protest in Coutts, Alberta around the same time that the Freedom Convoy truckers were in Ottawa.
That’s a very serious charge, of course, but evidence appears scarce. I’ve not personally investigated this matter, but a former Toronto police detective named Donald Best has. In July, he outlined a long list of concerns, in addition to pointing out that “Everybody makes bail in Canada” - including the man “currently accused of the first degree murder of Toronto Police officer Jeffrey Northrup.”
Yet the Coutts men - three of whom have no criminal record - have been held without bail for nearly 600 days. Since they are legally innocent until proven guilty, this is horrifying.
As Gord writes in Newsweek, we are a country in which hard-working Canadians are called Nazis by the same Prime Minister whose government recently recognized an actual Nazi with a standing ovation in the House of Commons. What a strange state of affairs.
After speaking to each of the Coutts four, Gord provides a wealth of new info about them. These are working class guys - a power lineman, the owner of a small construction company, a master electrician, and a contractor. Three of them have children as young as 9, 10, and 11. Gord says only two of them “knew each other prior to their arrest.” It’s difficult to imagine a more unlikely group of cop-murder conspiracists.
Please read Gord’s Newsweek article here.
What can we say? You’ve written about these men before Donna and I was in touch with the woman in Alberta who is raising funds to try and help their families. Good news their story is reaching “regular media”. I hope the time comes they sue and recoup financial loss but money will never be able to repair the emotional cost to them and their families.
Oh my lord, this is a damn shame. Shame on Canada.