Fri Dec 2, 2022 – 6:43 pm ESTFri Dec 2, 2022 – 6:46 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Newly revealed documents show that political aides for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party government were shocked at the apparent large number of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members who supported the Freedom Convoy.
Per Blacklock’s Reporter, confidential documents made public as part of the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings have revealed that Trudeau government staffers were shocked that there was sizeable support for the anti-mandate Freedom Convoy protesters by both members of the CAF and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
At least eight active members of the CAF publicly supported the Freedom Convoy from bases across Canada, while many more did so in private.
A staff email from Defence Minister Anita Anand’s office urged government workers at the time to please “see this internal list of Canadian Armed Forces members allegedly involved in the convoy.”
A press aid to Anand wrote back, “How the [expletive] many soldiers are in the convoy????”
The confidential documents also show that there were so many RCMP members who supported the Freedom Convoy that the police force sent out a
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