RCMP videos show how extremist ideology fuelled armed Coutts protesters

Sitting in an interview room in a southern Alberta RCMP detachment, Tony Olienick looked calm.

He stretched his legs as he casually told a police investigator what he thought should happen to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“He needs to be tried for treason,” Olienick said between bites of dinner.

“If he’s proven guilty, like we know he is, hang him – and get back to how it should be.”

But Trudeau wasn’t the one facing trial.

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That night of Feb. 14, 2022, the RCMP were interviewing Olienick and Chris Carbert, who had been arrested at an anti-pandemic restriction protest that locked down the Coutts, Alta., border crossing for two weeks.

Police would …