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Podcast: Overcoming the Divide: Nonpartisan Politics
Episode: The Freedom Trucker's Convoy and The Emergencies Act with The Honorable Tony Clement
Description: Today's episode, with The Honorable Tony Clement, begins by Clement lending his expertise as to what led to the current situation in Canada. The former MP discusses, what he believes, to be tactical errors on the side of the truckers as well as what led Prime Minister Trudeau to invoke The Emergencies Act of 1988. Clement gives his insights as how to Canadians feel about the protest as whole and why the invoking the of the act is a major mistake on behalf of the Prime Minister. We later discusses how American politics, media and average citizens play into the...