Call with a senior U.S. trade official \u0027was the moment when I realized... we had to find a way to bring this to an end,\u0027 Freeland testified.
“What was happening was profoundly jeopardizing the Canadian economy and putting investment in Canada at risk,” she told the Public Order Emergency Commission.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Some unnamed CEOs also suggested the government designate Freedom Convoy organizers as “terrorists” so they could “move fast” against their funding. Speaking to the inquiry Thursday, Freeland explained that the “joke” and “banana republic” comments from a foreign investor whom the bank CEO had been trying to convince to invest in Canada were “heart stopping”.
A summary of the call notes that Deese pointed out he was realizing how closely integrated the U.S. and Canadian economies and supply chains were and that “he did not seem to see this as positive.” She said the government had already been pushing back against U.S. measures to bring in tax incentives for electric vehicles that would have destroyed the Canadian auto industry.
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