February 8, 2022
SEEN ONE OCCUPY YOU'VE SEEN THEM ALL:
Justin Trudeau returns to Parliament with a hard stance against protests (Stephen Maher, February 8, 2022, Maclean's)
Justin Trudeau, week-long COVID isolation done, spoke in an emergency debate in Parliament Monday night, failing to extend an olive branch to the anti-mandate protesters occupying Ottawa. Instead, he said they should leave, the Globe reports: "Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens' daily lives. It has to stop. The people of Ottawa don't deserve to be harassed in their own neighbourhoods. They don't deserve to be confronted with the inherent violence of a swastika flying on a street corner, or a confederate flag, or the insults and jeers just because they're wearing a mask."Candice Bergen, who has met with the convoy protesters, unlike Trudeau, said Trudeau is making things worse: "Does he regret calling people names who didn't take the vaccine? Does he regret calling people misogynist and racist and just escalating and poking sticks at them and being so divisive to individual Canadians?"
No.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 8, 2022 11:55 AM
