A blacklist of 201 trucking companies that took part in the Freedom Convoy protest early this year was distributed by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in February, records show. “Please find attached an excel sheet detailing which companies whose trucks are participating in Ottawa convoy demonstrations,” wrote an unidentified staffer in an email distributed from…
Freeland’s Office Distributed Blacklist of Trucking Companies Who Participated in Freedom Convoy
Mendicino Tells Inquiry About Denied Engagement Proposal With Convoy Protesters
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino yesterday outlined details of the federal government’s engagement proposal with the Freedom Convoy protesters, which was ultimately denied by ministers two days before cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act. “Engagement was always an option and I had articulated on a number of occasions that law enforcement should be the last resort,” Mendicino…
Mendicino Tells Inquiry About Proposal to Engage With Convoy Protesters
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino yesterday outlined details of the federal government’s engagement proposal with the Freedom Convoy protesters, which was ultimately denied by ministers two days before cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act. “Engagement was always an option and I had articulated on a number of occasions that law enforcement should be the last resort,” Mendicino…
Lawyers Frustrated by Ottawa’s Disclosure of Documents at Emergencies Act Inquiry
Several lawyers at the inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act last winter say Ottawa has been too slow to disclose documents and are raising concerns about a lack of transparency. Thousands of pages of documents have been submitted into evidence at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is scrutinizing the decision…
Mendicino Says Protesters Wanted to Overthrow Government, Based On Repudiated ‘Manifesto’
The effects of last winter’s protests and blockades, tied to their intention to “overthrow” the government, led Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to judge it was necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act, according to his testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 22. “The fact that all of this was tied to a…
CSIS Director Told Trudeau Emergencies Act Was Needed Despite Seeing No National Security Threat Under Its Mandate
November 21, 2022
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The director of CSIS told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 21 that he advised the prime minister the Emergencies Act should be invoked, even though his agency had found that the protests of last winter didn’t pose any threats to national security as defined by its mandate. “We did not make a determination…
John Robson: Trudeau’s Denial of Knowledge of Alleged Chinese Funding to Candidates Raises Serious Concerns
November 21, 2022
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Commentary The latest twist in the saga of Chinese communist subversion of Canadian democracy has seen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turn into Sgt. Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes,” the dopey clod who knew and saw nothing. Confronted by a reporter at the Francophonie Summit in Tunisia, he intoned “I do not have any information, nor have…
Feds Needed to Use ‘Full Power’ Against the Freedom Convoy, Says Top Public Servant
The federal government needed to use its “full power” against Freedom Convoy protesters, said the head of the federal public service while testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission last week. “We have to leave no stone unturned. We have to make sure we are looking at every power, duty, every authority we have, every resource…
Dramatic Week Ahead as Trudeau, Ministers Testify at Emergencies Act Inquiry
OTTAWA—The final sprint is on at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which has already heard from more than 60 witnesses over five weeks on the government’s response to last winter’s “Freedom Convoy” protests. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and seven cabinet ministers will appear this week before the inquiry tasked with scrutinizing their decision to invoke…
No Evidence Freedom Convoy Donations Were From Criminal Origins: GoFundMe Exec
An executive from the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe said in testimony before a parliamentary committee that there is no evidence suggesting that any of the funds raised for the Freedom Convoy protest through the platform were illegal or acquired through criminal means. Conservative MP Larry Brock asked GoFundMe general counsel Kim Wilford if she agreed that…
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