During the ongoing public inquiry into the Canadian government’s decision to use the Emergencies Act to blacklist and freeze the accounts of civil liberties protesters, it was revealed that top officials in the Biden administration, including US President Biden himself, asked officials in the Canadian government to put an end to the Freedom Convoy protests.
According to POLITICO, Brian Deese, the White House National Economic Council Director, called Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on February 10. After the call, Freeland wrote an email to her staff, saying, “They are very, very, very worried.”
“If this is not sorted out in the next 12 hours, all of their northeastern car plants will shut down.”
In her testimony during the public inquiry, as clipped by Rebel, Freeland said that she was worried Canada was “in the process of doing long-term and possibly irreparable harm to our trading relationship with the United States” and worried about politicians in DC “who would love any excuse to impose more protectionist measures on us.”
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