Whether or not the Conservatives supported the #FreedomConvoy ideologically (and this recent discovery of Conservative MP Andrew Lawton’s participation in a secret Telegram chat with the organizers certainly suggests at least some of them did), the Party chose to use the illegal occupation of Ottawa and the subsequent terrorisation of its citizens as a political opportunity to undermine Trudeau and the government.

“[Conservative Party Interim Leader] Bergen advised against telling truckers to leave Ottawa, said protests should be made 'PM's problem'”

#CDNPoli #CDNElxn2025

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Bergen advised against telling truckers to leave Ottawa, said protests should be made 'PM's problem'

Newly elected interim Conservative Party Leader Candice Bergen advised senior Conservative MPs not to tell members of the trucker convoy to leave Ottawa and instead make the protests the prime minister's problem, according to an internal email obtain…

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We can’t let the #FreedomConvoy or the Conservative Party’s complicity in it get memory-holed—it needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

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Prior to becoming interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MP Candice Bergen was among the more vocal members of caucus to push former leader Erin O’Toole into an explicit embrace of the so-called freedom convoy that’s now occupying Ottawa.
CTV quoted Bergen echoing, almost verbatim, former U.S. president Donald Trump’s description of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., which ended violently, as having “good people on both sides.”
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#CDNpoli #CDNElxn2025 #CPC

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Candice Bergen’s nod to Trump is a sign of Canada’s descent, but the Charter may save us

The trucker convoy is a sign that Canada is on the cusp of its own Jan. 6, with Conservatives taking a page from Donald Trump’s playbook.

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