OTTAWA – The extraordinary controversy created by one of the lawyers representing some Freedom Convoy organizers at the Emergencies Act inquiry took more strange turns on Thursday.
Lawyer Brendan Miller was served Thursday with a libel notice by Brian Fox, a public relations executive that Miller had accused of parading a Nazi flag at the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, allegedly to discredit the protest.
And Miller also chased after someone he believed to be Fox, shouting at him a request to testify at the inquiry, but it was not Fox.
During the afternoon break at the Public Order Emergency Commission Thursday, Miller, who represents the Ottawa Freedom Convoy organizers, was served a notice of libel from Fox and his employer Enterprise Canada by a process server waiting for him in the building foyer. Miller has repeatedly alleged that Fox was a “provocateur” hired by Liberals to be photographed at the Freedom Convoy protests around Jan. 29 as part of a false-flag operation meant to portray the protestors as extremists.
Miller based his claim on what he has said is a resemblance between photos of Fox available online and the Nazi flag-bearer in a photo that was circulated widely. The face of the individual in the flag-bearer photo is partially obscured by shadow and sunglasses.
Miller has also provided an affidavit — described as “untested” by inquiry commissioner Paul Rouleau — by a man who purported to...
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