Documents made public show that within days during the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, no less than 11 American politicians, ranging from governors to senators to cabinet members and even President Joe Biden, spoke to their Canadian counterparts.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Termorshuizen and Joe Comartin, who was then Canada’s consul general in Detroit, both testified before the commission that is trying to determine if the Trudeau government was right to invoke the Emergencies Act.CSIS told government Freedom Convoy didn't pose national security threat day before Emergencies Act invoked
Comartin said he heard from many U.S. state and federal representatives that they were concerned the government wasn’t taking the problem seriously enough. “We’re going to build a whole new supply chain in order to have the electric vehicles come online and Canada has the potential to play a great role in that. That was jeopardized by this blockade,” he said.Article content
“Possible impression that Canadian police, security and intelligence systems are incapable of responding effectively to blatant, large scale, illegal conduct,” Goodale wrote in an email to officials back in Ottawa. Termorshuizen said there were also concerns about protecting embassies in Ottawa. She said none of the foreign embassies were targets of the protest, but Canada is obliged to protect foreign missions under the Vienna convention.
The only thing this inquiry has done is make Jim Watson and the residents of Ottawa look like clowns. Mostly downtown residents. The ones still trying to resurrect their failed dreams. You know, barristas and the like.
Concerned because those who contradict government action are capable of exposing truths that governments don’t want exposed! It’s all about control