CANADA – Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland admitted she felt the truckers had to be crushed beforehand so Canada would look “strong,” so foreign media wouldn’t cover the Freedom Convoy, rather than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Freeland told the POEC lawyers that optics were her main reason for the crackdown of the Freedom Convoy, not an unmanageable national security crisis as the Liberals have previously claimed.
The shocking revelation of Freeland’s willingness to sacrifice the rights of peaceful anti-regime protesters to look like a good ally of Ukraine was buried in her interview summary with the Public Order Emergency Inquiry.