Politics Briefing: Trudeau welcomes results of Emergencies Act inquiry, regrets calling protesters a “fringe minority”


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Hello, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he regrets some of the terms he used to describe activists in last winter’s convoy protests. During a news conference Friday responding to the findings of an inquiry that found his government was justified in using the Emergencies Act to quell the protests, Mr. Trudeau said he wished he had found different terms that calling convoy protesters a “fringe minority.” “I wish I had phrased it differently,” Mr. Trudeau told a news conference on Parliament Hill. “The fact is there is a very small number of people in this country who deliberately spread misinformation...