Tue Mar 1, 2022 – 2:51 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s Minister of Public Safety has alleged that some of the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa made rape threats.
Marco Mendicino made the startling claim to justify the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to disperse the peaceful protest and freeze bank accounts.
“There were Ottawans who were subjected to intimidation, harassment, threats of rape, and those were all supported by charges,” said Mendicino last Friday during a Public Safety committee meeting to investigate the so-called “Occupation of Ottawa and the Federal Government’s Response to Convoy Blockades.”
“We got the advice from our law enforcement that we met the threshold (to invoke the EA).”
Trudeau’s public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, says invoking the Emergencies Act was justified to squash the Freedom Convoy protest because truckers were potential rapists.
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No Freedom Convoy member has been charged with sexual assault.
Mendicino made the remarks after Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Raquel Dancho asked him if he could confirm if there was a “serious” threat to public safety in Ottawa during the protests.
Mendicino claimed that people
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