{"id":1752726,"date":"2022-11-27T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752726"},"modified":"2022-11-27T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:19:04","slug":"watchdog-says-biden-admin-pressured-canadian-pm-trudeau-to-shut-down-freedom-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-says-biden-admin-pressured-canadian-pm-trudeau-to-shut-down-freedom-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Says Biden Admin Pressured Canadian PM Trudeau to Shut Down &#8220;Freedom Convoy&#8221;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwatchdog-says-biden-admin-pressured-canadian-pm-trudeau-to-shut-down-freedom-convoy%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=1752726&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\/11\/585f7c10-48b7-4b04-a1c3-7238909c168c-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In January 2022, vaccine exemptions for Canadian and American cross-border truckers ended, leaving about 15,000 Canadian truckers who regularly cross the border in the performance of their jobs suddenly unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>Their response was heartening. Thousands of truckers joined \u201cFreedom Convoys,\u201d shutting down border crossings and finally ending up in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, where they virtually occupied Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian authorities wrung their hands for a while and then decided to declare a national emergency and invoke emergency powers. This allowed them to freeze protesters\u2019 bank accounts, ban travel to protest sites, and compel trucks to tow vehicles blocking streets.<\/p>\n<p>By law, the Canadian parliament must hold hearings on the use of emergency powers in order for the government justify their use. During those hearings, it has been revealed that the Biden administration was leaning heavily on the Trudeau government to crack down on the protests and allow the free flow of goods to proceed. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told the Public Order Emergency Commission of a phone call she got from Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council and Biden\u2019s top economic adviser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are very, very, very worried,\u201d Freeland wrote in an email to her staff. \u201cIf this is not sorted out in the next 12 hours, all of their northeastern car plants will shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/24\/washington-ottawa-freedom-convoy-00070817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-4\">During the conversation, Deese acknowledged the integrated nature of the cross-border economy that Canadians regularly emphasize with American counterparts. Transport Canada analysis pegged the cost of the blockades at C$3.9 billion in halted trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-5\">Freeland asked Deese if he could arrange a phone call between Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He would \u201ctry to make it happen,\u201d she wrote to staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-0\">Brian Clow, Trudeau\u2019s deputy chief of staff, had already heard from White House officials including Juan Gonzalez, special assistant to the president and the National Security Council senior director for the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">Gonzalez wanted to connect Trudeau\u2019s national security adviser, Jody Thomas, with officials at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">Why would Trudeau\u2019s national security advisor want to confer with American officials at Homeland Security? It\u2019s one mystery that Trudeau will have to clear up when he testifies before the committee next week.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">Clearly, the Freedom Convoys scared the daylights out of both Biden and Trudeau. And one of the focuses of the committee will be whether or not the invocation of the emergency powers was necessary \u2014 or warranted.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">The impact of the emergency powers on border blockades remains unclear. Documents tabled at the inquiry show that law enforcement agencies didn\u2019t require the Emergencies Act to open up the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told reporters after her testimony that the force used \u201cexisting tools\u201d to carry out arrests near an Alberta crossing on Feb. 14 \u2014 the same day as the invocation. The protesters in Coutts, Alta., departed the area the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Emails from government officials in Manitoba claimed a border blockade in that province was cleared without the need for emergency powers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As is expected with a liberal government, the Canadians overreacted to a situation they didn\u2019t understand and brought down the heavy hand of the state on ordinary people who simply disagreed with their vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the mandates were a wasted effort and have since been withdrawn. It appears that Trudeau wanted to use the emergency decree to intimidate protesters rather than as any effort to \u201crestore order.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2022, vaccine exemptions for Canadian and American cross-border truckers ended, leaving about 15,000 Canadian truckers who regularly cross the border in the performance of their jobs suddenly unemployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752726","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=1752726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}