Bergen advised against telling truckers to leave Ottawa, said protests should be made 'PM's problem'
CTV
Newly elected interim Conservative Party Leader Candice Bergen advised senior Conservative MPs not to tell members of the trucker convoy to leave Ottawa and instead make the protests the prime minister's problem, according to an internal email obtained by CTV News.
In an email sent on Monday, the then deputy leader told her colleagues “I don’t think we should be asking them to go home.”
“I understand the mood may shift soon. So we need to turn this into the PMs problem. What will he take the first step to working toward ending this?”
Bergen has been vocally supportive of the Freedom Convoy that has blockaded downtown Ottawa for almost a week, in protest of vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions.
The leadership of the convoy says they won’t leave until the government lifts policies they say impede personal freedoms.
