Trudeau's Dark Manipulation or Peace with Protesters?

By BJ Dichter, with John Goddard

The following is an excluded chapter from my upcoming book about the Freedom Convoy. As the convoy spokesperson I appeared in numerous interviews on various outlets and formats including Fox News, Breitbart News Daily Podcast, Glenn Beck, Louder with Crowder, Jordan Peterson, Mikhalia Peterson, Gad Saad, Meghan Murphy, Newsmax, Marc Patrone and Richard Syrett of Sauga960am, GB News, and others. Through each interview I helped articulate a message of Peace, Love, Unity and Freedom for all Canadians in a hope for a brighter future once Canada moved beyond the darkness and divisiveness of the Trudeau regime. That brighter future is on the horizon.

Chapter X

Nobody could imagine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau climbing into a long-haul truck in February during the Freedom Convoy demonstrations. Truckers were not his kind of protester. He much prefers Black Lives Matter activists, with their imported grievances, or, better still, indigenous people with nostalgic ideals.

Trudeau was travelling in Prince Edward Island in 2017 when he got word of a protest on Parliament Hill. In a few days, the country would be celebrating its sesquicentennial — 150 years of Canadian Confederation. His visit included the provincial capital, where the founding fathers originally met to forge the nation. Trudeau would be back in Ottawa for Canada Day, but indigenous protesters were threatening to cast a pall over the festivities.

A group called the Bawaating Water Protectors was intending to stage a “re-occupation,” meaning they wanted to erect a teepee on the Parliamentary lawn. The national holiday would fall on the Saturday. On Wednesday night, thirty members of the group gathered at the Human Rights sculpture on Elgin Street, near Ottawa City Hall, and walked toward Parliament carrying wooden poles and swaths of heavy canvas.

Just inside the Parliamentary gates, police stopped them. When the protesters refused to budge, police handcuffed and detained nine of them. Police also erected barricades to prevent any further attempt to enter the lawn. To erect a teepee, police said, the protesters needed a permit, and a permit required an application filed six months in advance.

A few hours later police reversed themselves. At two in the morning, they allowed the remaining protesters to put up the teepee just inside the gates near the East Block. Later the same day in Charlottetown, Trudeau spoke to reporters.

“I understand — and hear very clearly — the issues that a number of people, including the individuals who are setting up a teepee on the Hill, are expressing,” he said. “We just have to make sure that we deal with both what are going to be historic crowds on Canada Day on the Hill, but also deal with people in a respectful and responsible way.”

Later that evening, further orders came through. Police were told to help the indigenous protesters relocate the teepee to a more central location on the lawn, closer to the stage built for the Canada Day celebrations.

On Friday morning, Trudeau then visited the teepee. With his wife, Sophie, he crossed the lawn dressed like a rodeo cowboy, in blue jeans and a jean jacket with a “Canada 150” crest on the left, breast pocket. Sophie wrapped herself against the morning chill in a green blanket falling almost to her ankles, like a woman of the Old West. They removed their shoes, pulled back the door flap, and stepped into the tent. Inside, four protesters were waiting. They hosted a sweetgrass ceremony for their guests, and, afterward, Trudeau spoke for eight minutes. One of the protesters, Candace Day Neveau, of Sault St. Marie, Ontario, recorded the remarks on her smartphone.

In the footage, Trudeau sits cross-legged on the tent floor, like an indigenous elder. With one hand he holds an eagle feather. With the other he strokes the feather lengthwise in silence, looking thoughtful. He then speaks in a sympathetic tone.

“Six months ago, you could have applied for a permit,” he says. “That’s not your way of doing things, and I respect that. I understand that… You understand as well, police and security services… are… taking extra care right now to keep the hundreds of thousands of people here tomorrow safe.”

The police and the protesters hold different mindsets, Trudeau continues. Both mindsets are reasonable, both grounded in experience. The challenge is to do better — “to listen to each other, create spaces, and create room for each other’s stories, hopes, aspirations, paths, and ways of expressing, ways of sharing stories.” At the Canada Day ceremony, strong, indigenous performances will be included, he says. The government will also move ahead with transforming the building directly across the street, at 100 Wellington, into a cultural centre, an Indigenous Peoples Space.

“Everyone who walks on this Hill, not just on Canada Day but every single day,” he tells the four, “will see and be reminded of the fundamental role that indigenous people play, not just in the past but in the future of this land.”

Trudeau thanks his hosts for being “strong voices,” for being “courageous,” and for being “patient.” In return, rather than thanking the prime minister, Candace Day Neveau plays the feisty activist, not easily beguiled. Several times, she addresses the prime minister as “Justin.” Politely but firmly, she says she wants the Indian Act scrapped and wants the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada renamed “the Office of Honorable Treaty Relations.”

“We’re going to always be applying pressure,” she says. “We’re going to be here. We’re not going to back down anymore as indigenous people. We’re going to be constantly exerting our inherent rights. Moving forward as a young leader, I’m here to say we’re going to be holding you accountable.”

“I look forward to working with you on that,” Trudeau replies agreeably, “hand in hand, in partnership.”

News reporters had been tipped off to the visit, but as Trudeau and his wife left the tent they didn’t stop to speak. Trudeau knew the video would soon be posted to social media, and that people would hear his words of tolerance and would observe his humble demeanor. Unfortunately this humble demeanour was absent during the Freedom Convoy, replaced with darkness and anger as Trudeau and his co-conspirator Doug Ford used violence to abuse, harass and detain Freedom Convoy protestors participating in the largest most peaceful protest in Canadian history. Then he froze our bank accounts and attempted to starve us.

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