Documents shed light on Reclaiming Canada event in B.C. [Video]

When the organizer of the We Unify Reclaiming Canada event contacted officials about booking the Victoria Conference Centre, he touted invitees from across the political spectrum, including liberal luminaries such as Amal Clooney, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C.’s NDP Premier David Eby, movie stars and more.

Jonathan Bower told the sales director of the city-owned conference centre last December he’d be staging the event “in the same spirit” as the Munk Debates in Toronto.

But by the time the two-day conference was held in June, the likes of Clooney and Trudeau were nowhere to be seen.

Instead, speakers included right-wing commentator Lauren Southern, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who is now Donald Trump’s nominee to head the National Institutes of Health, Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich and Vaccine Choice Canada president Ted Kuntz.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Freedom of Information Act show how the centre came to host …