Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office distributed a blacklist of 201 trucking companies that participated in the Freedom Convoy, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Please find attached an Excel sheet detailing which companies whose trucks are participating in Ottawa convoy demonstrations,” said an unidentified staffer in an email distributed from Freeland’s office.
“A total of 45 companies whose trucks are in Ottawa have accessed the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy out of a total of 201 companies whose trucks are publicly known as being in Ottawa.”
Three of the companies with trucks in Ottawa were based in the United States.
The blacklist was distributed in February. Cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act (War Measures Act) to freeze Freedom Convoy supporter bank accounts around the same time.
“Your corporate accounts will be frozen,” said Freeland.
“The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended.”
Freeland said companies should send their semi-trailers home. She said the Canadian economy “needs them to be doing legitimate work, not to be illegally making us all poorer.”
The redacted email does not identify the source of the truckers’s blacklist. RCMP and Ottawa police are known to have distributed lists of suspected Freedom Convoy protesters to banks, insurers, and lobbyists.
Freeland called the Freedom Convoy “unacceptable.”
“What we are facing today is a threat to our democratic institutions, to our economy and to peace, order, and good government in Canada,” she said.
Records revealed in August show Employment and Social Development Canada complained of significant labour shortages in trucking weeks before the Freedom Convoy, which could not afford to lose drivers.
“Key sectors in the economy including the trucking sector continue to face significant workforce challenges,” said a briefing note for Employment and Social Development Canada.
The briefing note said trucking companies were struggling to find workers.
Jonathan Bradley is a Reporter for the Western Standard & Alberta Report. Bradley has contributed stories to the National Post, True North, and Canadaland. He obtained a master's degree in media production at Toronto Metropolitan University.
It is true that the convoy had a negative economic impact on Canada, it is also true that this impact was tiny compared to the covid policy impact. Yet no media seems to point that out
“What we are facing today is a threat to our democratic institutions, to our economy and to peace, order, and good government in Canada,” she (Freeland) said. ....Any threat to our democratic institutions, economy and peace and order have clearly been purposely created and propagated by the corrupt Trudeau Liberal cabal.
Everything this woman touches she destroys! She is unqualified to hold any position in any government. And that smirk! It needs to be wiped off that hideous face of hers!
Right before eyes, Canada has turned into a Soviet-style dictatorship. The Turdiot-Singh-Notley coalition was able to achieve it by offering freebies/handouts to the DoNots, courtesy of the taxes paid for by hardworking, freedom-loving, taxpaying DOs.
If you don’t do as the regime tells you, you will not qualify for any of the government programs, and the regime will cut you off of any government funds, do as you are told, or the regime will bankrupt you, dissent is not allowed, independence is not allowed, and the worst offense you
Can commit is not being a Liberal in this dictatorship.
my first thought was: we need to have a couple of lawyers in cabinet that understand the status of the Emergencies Act, but then recalled that Lametti is actually A LAW PROFESSOR. And Marco Mendocino is a lawyer, and one of the biggest liars currently in Cabinet....
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Free from redactions no doubt.
Criminalizing dissent.
It is true that the convoy had a negative economic impact on Canada, it is also true that this impact was tiny compared to the covid policy impact. Yet no media seems to point that out
“What we are facing today is a threat to our democratic institutions, to our economy and to peace, order, and good government in Canada,” she (Freeland) said. ....Any threat to our democratic institutions, economy and peace and order have clearly been purposely created and propagated by the corrupt Trudeau Liberal cabal.
Everything that freeland does is a criminal act against humanity.
Pure evil parasite puppet of the globalist pedo satanist bankers.
Ain't that the absolute truth!
Everything this woman touches she destroys! She is unqualified to hold any position in any government. And that smirk! It needs to be wiped off that hideous face of hers!
Right before eyes, Canada has turned into a Soviet-style dictatorship. The Turdiot-Singh-Notley coalition was able to achieve it by offering freebies/handouts to the DoNots, courtesy of the taxes paid for by hardworking, freedom-loving, taxpaying DOs.
If you don’t do as the regime tells you, you will not qualify for any of the government programs, and the regime will cut you off of any government funds, do as you are told, or the regime will bankrupt you, dissent is not allowed, independence is not allowed, and the worst offense you
Can commit is not being a Liberal in this dictatorship.
One can only imagine what this regime will do with the CRA and coming tax season, relative to their 'lists'. Welcome to Russia.
my first thought was: we need to have a couple of lawyers in cabinet that understand the status of the Emergencies Act, but then recalled that Lametti is actually A LAW PROFESSOR. And Marco Mendocino is a lawyer, and one of the biggest liars currently in Cabinet....
We Albertans need to leave this corrupt and collapsing country that used to be called Canada land of the free!!! Daniel are you listening???
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