Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Nov. 24 that a call with the White House’s economic advisor impressed upon her that the Liberal government needed to take action to end last winter’s cross-country protests and blockades.
“That one conversation was a seminal one for me, and it was a moment when I realized, as a country, somehow, we had to find a way to bring this to an end,” Freeland said about her Feb. 10 call with Brian Deese, economic advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Freeland was testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission and she was asked to comment on the call….