Pro-Trump Canadians Throw 'Million Deplorable March.' Rightwing Media Counts 5,000 Cops Say Hundreds
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Pro-Trump Canadians Throw ‘Million Deplorable March.’ Rightwing Media Counts 5,000. Cops Say Hundreds.
It's not the first time the far right has wildly overestimated the size of a pro-Trump crowd.
Ben Collins
BEN COLLINS
06.05.17 3:20 PM ET
Although it was dubbed the “Million Canadian Deplorables March,” both The Daily Caller and Breitbart claimed about 5,000 people showed up in Ottawa to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and to show favor for Donald Trump, whom protest organizer Mike Waine called a “smart man.”
“Most Canadians are asleep because fake news is telling them stories that just aren’t true,” Waine told The Daily Caller in its article “Thousands Of Canadian ‘Deplorables’ March To Support Trump And Oppose Trudeau.”
Ironically, Ottawa police now say there weren’t thousands, let alone 5,000 or a million, protesters at the March at all. “We average about two or three (demonstrations) a day. It would be like Washington D.C. for you guys,” said Ottawa Police Constable Marc Soucy. “This one would be on the small side for sure.”
Soucy said that, while the Ottawa Police doesn’t officially provide crowd estimates, there were not 5,000 people at the rally’s “gathering point” in Ottawa’s Confederation Park.
“There were less than 100 (at the park),” he said.
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exchange rate that makes around 70! 
