The concern we had with the convoy at the outset and throughout was the fact that we had seen in Canada and other jurisdictions people and violent extremists using protests and demonstrations to engage in acts of violence, to recruit members and to spread their ideology further. When the convoy was coming over the country, we looked at those elements with our partners in the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre. We looked at the targets that we were aware of at CSIS. We looked at the people who were engaged in these violent activities to see how they would try to use and manipulate those demonstrations.
We also were concerned with the lone actors—people who engage in violence spontaneously. This is where we were focusing our activities during the convoy and providing information to law enforcement and to the government.