Tue Oct 18, 2022 – 5:44 pm EDTTue Oct 18, 2022 – 5:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-lockdown and pro-mandate Progressive Conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, cited damage to the economy and the disruption of the “lives of the people” as the reasons he supported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act (EA) in order to crush the peaceful “Freedom Convoy” movement.
This is not something to brag about, Premier. https://t.co/acm6z7J42A
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) October 17, 2022
Speaking alongside Trudeau at an announcement for a new Nokia technology hub in Kanata, Ontario on Monday, Ford said he stood “shoulder-to-shoulder with the prime minister” during the anti-COVID mandate “Freedom Convoy” protest that overtook Ottawa earlier this year, indicating his support for the Liberal prime minister.
Doubling down on his support for Trudeau’s invocation of the EA – which allowed the Trudeau government to deploy the national police force to physically remove protesters, in addition to directing banks to freeze their accounts without a court order – Ford added: “If you disrupt the lives of the people of Ottawa every single day, disrupt the lives of economic flow across our borders,
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