{"id":1294076,"date":"2022-02-13T00:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294076"},"modified":"2022-02-13T00:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:37:44","slug":"justin-trudeau-convenes-incident-response-group-to-illegal-blockades-and-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justin-trudeau-convenes-incident-response-group-to-illegal-blockades-and-occupations\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau Convenes &#039;Incident Response Group&#039; to &#039;Illegal Blockades and Occupations&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustin-trudeau-convenes-incident-response-group-to-illegal-blockades-and-occupations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294076&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trudeau-in-a-Meeting-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held an \u201cIncident Response Group\u201d meeting on Saturday in response to demonstrations in the Ontario cities of Ottawa and Windsor that he framed as \u201cillegal blockades and occupations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/pm.gc.ca\/en\/news\/readouts\/2022\/02\/12\/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-convenes-incident-response-group-ongoing\">claiming<\/a> its undertaking of unspecified efforts to \u201cend the ongoing&nbsp;illegal blockades and occupations taking place across the country,\u201d the federal government provided no details regarding efforts to negotiate with demonstrators or deadlines for its stated goal of ending the protests.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s office wrote: [The Incident Response Group] emphasized the urgent need for anyone participating in the blockades to return to their communities peacefully and immediately, and that consequences for breaking the law will be increasingly severe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government claimed \u201call options remain on the table\u201d while emphasizing, \u201cThese blockades must be brought to an end, and the federal government will continue working on every option to end them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s government made no mention of the goals and motivations of the Freedom Convoy and its supporters in its statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can read more about today\u2019s meeting here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J2sj3pKOJJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/J2sj3pKOJJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\/status\/1492693301589336066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Freedom Convoy in Ottawa is an \u201cillegal occupation,\u201d the federal government alleged, continuing a pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/09\/hysterical-left-on-peaceful-canadian-freedom-convoy-occupation-siege-terrorism\/\">using<\/a> military terminology to describe a political demonstration opposing governmental decrees \u2014 marketed as \u201cpublic health\u201d and \u201cpublic safety\u201d measures \u2014 restricting constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>Several Canadian politicians and officials at varying levels of government have repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/09\/hysterical-left-on-peaceful-canadian-freedom-convoy-occupation-siege-terrorism\/\">used<\/a> martial terminology such as \u201coccupation,\u201d \u201csiege,\u201d and \u201cterrorism\u201d to describe the ongoing Freedom Convoy demonstration in Ottawa, alongside news media inviting authorities to consider the use of military intervention to end the protest.<\/p>\n<p>No specific actions beyond a commitment to hold another meeting on Saturday were listed in the federal government\u2019s description of coordinated efforts across municipal, provincial, and federal law enforcement towards ending the \u201cillegal occupation\u201d in Canada\u2019s capital city:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, the OPP, the RCMP, and the Ottawa Police Service established an enhanced Integrated Command Centre in response to the escalation of the current occupation in Ottawa. Additionally, the Prime Minister and ministers discussed further immediate actions the federal government is considering, and will reconvene tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No details were provided outlining the \u201cescalation of the current occupation\u201d attributed to the Freedom Convoy demonstrators or its supporters. No specific information was provided regarding the \u201cfurther immediate actions\u201d being considered by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau did not specify whether Sunday\u2019s meeting would be in-person or held remotely as per Health Canada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/government\/publicservice\/covid-19\/easing-restrictions.html\">advisories<\/a> regarding remote work and government employees as protective measures against COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held an \u201cIncident Response Group\u201d meeting on Saturday in response to demonstrations in the Ontario cities of Ottawa and Windsor that he framed as \u201cillegal blockades &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}