Cracks appear in Conservative caucus over anti-vaccine mandate protest

After a week that saw the new interim leader of the federal Conservatives and other high-profile Tory MPs throw their support behind the anti-vaccine mandate protest convoy snarling Ottawa’s downtown core, one of the party’s Quebec MPs is breaking ranks and calling the protest a “siege.”

“I spent the week undergoing the siege of Ottawa,” Pierre Paul-Hus, who represents the riding of Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, said in a social media post.

“I ask that we clear the streets and that we stop this occupation controlled by radicals and anarchist groups.”

Since the convoy first moved into Ottawa, interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen, former leader Andrew Scheer, Pierre Poilievre and other