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 Justin would never allow anything that would force him to resign:

A report circulated by the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) made numerous false and misleading claims about the Freedom Convoy. 

As first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, the memo titled Examining U.S. Support and Funding for the Canadian Trucker Contoy was published by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).

The ISD made several false and since disputed claims including that funding for the convoy was from “international sources.” 

“Funding appears to be coming from a host of U.S. and international sources,” claimed the ISD.

Testimony and evidence tabled before the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) have revealed that the convoy was in fact grassroots and domestically funded.

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The Ottawa Police Service days before cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act distributed a memo falsely claiming foreign extremists bankrolled the Freedom Convoy. The memo by a U.K. think tank mentioned “Trump” five times and summarized Facebook insults against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “Funding appears to be coming from a host of U.S. and international sources.”

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Bull. Sh--:

The Public Order Emergency Commission paid as an expert consultant an Ottawa pollster who described Freedom Convoy supporters as thugs and jihadists. Frank Graves, president of Ekos Research Associates Inc., said he regretted his tweets and deleted them: “The Commission was not aware of Mr. Graves’ tweets.”

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Secret cabinet minutes disclose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested using the Emergencies Act days before the extraordinary measure was invoked against the Freedom Convoy. Cabinet at the time publicly assured Canadians the Highway Traffic Act was sufficient to deal with protesters outside Parliament: “The Prime Minister set up the conversation.

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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino was “very persistent” in discussing the Freedom Convoy, according to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. The remark is detailed in minutes of a police meeting. Mendicino denied directing police operations: “My Minister very persistent.”

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A text message exchange between the RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and her Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) counterpart suggests the federal Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair asked Lucki to express support for the Emergencies Act a few days after its invocation.

“Has Minister Blair hit you up for a letter to support the EA [Emergencies Act]?” Lucki wrote to OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique on Feb. 19.

“No, he has not. Should I expect to hear from him?” Carrique replied.

The exchange was entered as evidence before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Oct. 27, the day Carrique was testifying in person before the commission.