Posted on 02/08/2022 12:56:24 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s public safety minister said Monday that U.S. officials should stay out of his country’s domestic affairs, joining other Canadian leaders in pushing back against prominent Republicans who offered support for the protests of COVID-19 restrictions that have besieged downtown Ottawa for more than a week.
Many members of the GOP have made comments supporting the demonstrations, including former President Donald Trump, who called Trudeau a “far left lunatic” who has “destroyed Canada with insane COVID mandates.”
Prominent Republicans including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton complained after crowdfunding site GoFundMe said it would refund the vast majority of the millions of dollars raised by demonstrators.
In response, Paxton tweeted: “Patriotic Texans donated to Canadian truckers’ worthy cause.” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said on Fox News that “government doesn’t have the right to force you to comply to their arbitrary mandates.”
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino shot back: “It is certainly not the concern of the Texas attorney general as to how we in Canada go about our daily lives in accordance with the rule of law.”
“We need to be vigilant about potential foreign interference ... Whatever statements may have been made by some foreign official are neither here nor there. We’re Canadian. We have our own set of laws. We will follow them,” Mendicino said.
Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of intergovernmental affairs, blamed the GOP interference for inciting disorderly conduct and helping to fund entities that are not respecting Canadian law. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said Paxton was wrong for commenting on it.
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No one cares what the AssPress has to say.
Sorry, your domestic affairs are impacting our trucking industry and supply chain and trade 24/7. So let your truckers work and quit trying to force them
to inject themselves.
We have a right to criticize them, just as they have a right to criticize us. I bet these same people supported BLM when they were running amok in our cities.
Too bad they don’t give a flying frick about foreign influence from China.
54 40 or fight?
NO kidding. They’ve been anti-American the past 70 years. The past 2 weeks it’s “extremist” this and that.
Then don’t expect our military to defend your country.
Brandeau kneeled before BLM “peaceful protestors” in Ottawa. He won’t even meet the truckers.
Now, if we had a ‘war-time’ GOP, you’d see a press release from every one of them supporting the Canadian truckers - and joining the American Convoy - even sending them a few nickels.
I.E., doubling and tripling down.
just my $0.02
So it is ok for Blackface sissygurl Turdoe to threaten US citizens for how they choose to spend their money and their intentions but these jackbooted jerks tell us to we have no right to to have an opinion..
Cuck Fanada pols!
I’m so glad Justin has to deal with this
Kanada’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of intergovernmental affairs, should answer what Kanada was doing interfering in the U.S. by helping illegal alien invaders through Kanada to the U.S. northern border.
Canada is restricting our truckers from going into Canada due to their vaccine mandates - so yes we should be involved
Even if I had never heard of Donald Trump, and knew nothing of what he had ever said or accomplished, his comment that Prime Mistake Cockwomble True-dolt was a “far left lunatic” who has “destroyed Canada with insane COVID mandates.” I would hold him in very high esteem.
Given what he ACTUALLY accomplished on the world stage, and for his country, I hold him in exceptionally high esteem!
While I know this would NEVER happen, I, for one, would WELCOME his coming to PRC (Politically Repressive Canada), and becoming Prime Minister. Obviously, why would he EVER want to be leader of PRC (Politically Repressive Canada), even if he could be?
Also, there are WAY TOO MANY sheeple in PRC who would rather die than vote for PDJT. All I can say to them is, please oblige us!
My mother was born in Canada, my great-uncle died in France fighting for Canada in WWI, and I have pioneer Canadian ancestors, so go shove it up your arse Marco.
The media blackout has failed.
Now they go back to attacking.
LET'S GO BRANDON TRUE-DOLT!
LET'S GO BRANDON LEBLANC!
LET'S GO BRANDON MAYOR TWATSON!
LET'S GO BRANDON MENDICINO!
LET'S GO BRANDON BILL BLAIR!
Yup. And they don't mind giving my spousal unit (who is a Canadian) an earfull about US issues every time she talks to them. And I always reply - Your country is as messed up as you say mine is. Why don't you focus on your own county's issues???
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