Ford's Freedom Convoy conundrum
And education talks are going nowhere
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The Prime Minister and Mayor of Ottawa accused Premier DOUG FORD of shirking his responsibility when it came to dealing with the so-called “Freedom Convoy” trucker protests last winter.
Ford, meanwhile, is facing mounting pressure to take the stand at the Emergencies Act inquiry — while his comments about it thus far have ticked off some Tories.
— A rocky bromance: Despite Ford’s insistence this week that he stood “shoulder to shoulder” with PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU when invoking the Emergencies Act to end the Convoy protests that rocked the nation’s capital — Trudeau and Mayor JIM WATSON accused Ford of “hiding from his responsibility on it for political reasons.”
Watson had vented about Ford in a phone call with Trudeau on February 8. According to the transcript revealed at the inquiry hearings, the outgoing Mayor also said Jones was being “disingenuous” about the number of OPP officers dispatched to help l…