Rapists. That’s the Liberal government’s latest slander against the Freedom Convoy truckers. Last week, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told the Commons public safety committee that one of the main reasons the Trudeau government had to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy out of...
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Also blown away this week was the Liberals’ insistence that the Freedom Convoy was being financed by well-funded foreign and domestic organizations, many with white supremist connections.
Two weeks ago, Barry MacKillop, deputy director of the federal government anti-terror funding and money-laundering unit told the same committee his investigators could find no evidence that convoy donors were intent on overthrowing the government.
And this week, executives from crowdfunding sites, GoFundMe and GiveSendGo, told the committee the same thing.
Donors were nearly 90% Canadian. They mostly gave small amounts. And there was no evidence that, say, neo-Nazis were underwriting the protests.
There never was a legitimate reason to invoke the Emergencies Act. It was entirely an overreaction.
So with their initial arguments crumbling day by day, Mendicino doubled down with the outrageous claim that there were so many potential rapists in the truckers’ midst that the government had no choice but to impose the Emergencies Act. More at the LINK…