Since the Freedom Convoy left Ottawa, Robin Seguin hasn’t been able to see the Canadian flag the same way.
Seguin owns Victoria Barbershop, which has been operating out of the basement of a government building at the corner of O’Connor Street and Wellington Street in Ottawa’s Centretown for more than 100 years.
Her shop put her right in the middle of the action as protestors filled the streets in January 2022.
“Every day I’d see one go by with a flag upside down or with a flag with writing all over it,” she remembered, adding she witnessed a protestor burn the Canadian flag on Parliament Hill.
“I was devastated. It really made a separation between me as a Canadian and my flag, which always flew so strong and proud and free.”
Even if Seguin had been able to forget the sight of those flags, she said her business has since …