Official estimates were that the convoy scared away between $44 million and $200 million from retailers, restaurants and services in Ottawa’s core.
But to see just what an overreaction that was, consider that this week Blacklock’s Reporter, through an access to inform request, learned the federal government couldn’t even give away nearly half of the $20 million it set aside to compensate Ottawa businesses “devastated” by the presence of the convoyers.
So desperate, though, were federal officials to feed their concocted narrative about the great harm done to local small businesses, that the access request shows them agreeing to extend the deadline for relief applications and finally sending staff door-to-door in central Ottawa cajoling business owners to please, please, please ask for money.
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