December 3,2025
RED FM News Desk
A B.C. legislator who previously argued that Truth and Reconciliation Day should not be a statutory holiday is now proposing a new holiday to commemorate the so-called “Freedom Convoy.”
Tara Armstrong, one of two MLAs who created the right-wing One BC Party after being elected as B.C. Conservatives, introduced the Freedom Convoy Recognition Act on Tuesday.
She said the bill aims “to recognize the achievements of the Freedom Convoy, one of the largest peaceful demonstrations in Canadian history,” adding that it inspired global movements opposing lockdowns and perceived government overreach.
If passed, the holiday would fall on March 11 — the date B.C. eased its COVID-19 restrictions in 2022.
“Mask mandates were lifted, faith communities could gather again, and families were able to visit loved ones in long-term care,” the bill states.
The Freedom Convoy shut down parts of Ottawa for weeks, and several organizers have since been convicted of criminal offences.
The One BC Party did not run any candidates in the last provincial election and emerged after Dallas Brodie was expelled from the B.C. Conservative caucus. Party leader John Rustad said he had to remove her after she made comments that “publicly mocked and belittled testimony from former residential school students.”
The Freedom Convoy Recognition Act passed first reading, unlike Brodie’s bill last month titled the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Statute Repeal Act, which claimed Truth and Reconciliation Day “doesn’t deserve to be” a statutory holiday. Armstrong supported that bill.
Following the debate, Premier David Eby said both Brodie and Armstrong should face recall, calling their ideology “clearly anti-Indigenous, unambiguously racist” and describing their comments in the legislature as “reprehensible, disgusting, appalling.”
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