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.

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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.