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Canada’s public safety minister has said that US officials should stay out of his country’s domestic affairs, joining other Canadian leaders in pushing back against prominent US Republicans who have offered support for demonstrators protesting Covid-19 restrictions and have besieged central Ottawa for more than a week.
