Posted on 11/25/2022 6:22:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
op Biden administration officials pressed their Canadian counterparts to clear truckers blockading parts of the United States’s northern border during protests in January.
A public inquiry into the Canadian government’s decision to use emergency powers to clear the “Freedom Convoy” protesters revealed on Thursday that frantic phone calls were placed by Washington to Ottawa in an effort to open up choked-off supply lines.
“They are very, very, very worried,” Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wrote in an email to her staff after a Feb. 10 phone call from White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, according to Politico.
“If this is not sorted out in the next 12 hours, all of their northeastern car plants will shut down,” Freeland continued in her email.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg phoned his Canadian counterpart, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, the same day Deese called Freeland, according to the report, and Buttigieg pressed Alghabra about Canada’s “plan to resolve” the protests.
Alghabra told the commission that Buttigieg initiated the call and that the interaction was “unusual.”
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The relationship between Canada and the US is like this:
United States: “Jump”
Canada: “How High”
The U.S. border restrictions were much more onerous than Canada’s.
Only on one border it seems.
Agree especially the biatch part. Now if Canadians actually funded their military and didn’t slum for supplies from Americans maybe we wouldn’t be such a biatch.
I remember when Canadians used to resent it when the US supposedly pushed them around. I guess it’s OK now that it’s Democrats doing it.
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