Fri Oct 14, 2022 – 3:31 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland massively overstated the potential economic losses associated with the closure of the Windsor, Ontario border during the “Freedom Convoy” movement, according to internal documents.
In sections of government documents published by Blacklock’s Reporter, Freeland – who serves as the nation’s finance minister as well as deputy prime minister publicly exaggerated the economic impact, seemingly as an attempt to pit the public against the protesters.
“The blockade of the Ambassador Bridge has affected about $390 million in trade each day,” Freeland said the day the Emergencies Act was announced, which Blacklock’s now revealed is an “extreme case” and not reality. “This bridge supports 30 percent of all trade by road between Canada and the United States.”
Despite the misleading nature of the remarks, Freeland doubled down and said that “these costs are real” and that Canadians would become poorer as a result of the protests at the border.
The closures, she said, “threaten[ed] the livelihoods of Canadian workers.”
According to a Department of Transport memo, total trade in 2021 averaged about $390 million per day, meaning Freeland’s figure would only be
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