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Canadian Prime Minister Slammed Over Hypocritical Support of China’s Protesters
(WatchDogReport.org) – Canada’s liberal Prime Minister (PM), Justin Trudeau, recently expressed his support for Chinese citizens who are protesting against the zero-COVID policies put in place by President Xi Jinping after a spike in infections throughout November. However, he has faced a great deal of backlash for his comments, which his detractors are calling hypocritical because of his actions when faced with protesters in his own country.
Justin Trudeau on the anti-lockdown protesters in China:
“Everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves.”
He didn’t allow his own citizens in Canada to do the same. He closed their bank accounts. Gargantuan hypocrisy.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) November 29, 2022
Early in 2022, Canadian truckers put together what was called the “Freedom Convoy” in response to what was seen by many as the random imposition of pandemic lockdowns. The requirement for drivers crossing the border with the United States to be vaccinated was the final straw for them. So, suddenly, the streets in Ottawa were brought to a standstill, and major checkpoints blocked, so that travel between the two countries was shut down.
In mid-February, Trudeau became the first PM in the country’s history to invoke the Emergencies Act, which gave the federal government near-totalitarian powers to deal with the protesters. He used it to have financial institutions freeze more than 200 bank accounts, stopping those believed to be involved from accessing roughly $8 million Canadian dollars (~$6 million US) and allegedly threatening citizens with fines, prison time, and having children taken from their families.
The protest in China regarding Xi’s new lockdowns began in earnest after 10 people died in an apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, involving at least several from the same family of Uyghur Muslims allegedly facing persecution from Beijing. Australian pundit Avi Yemini expressed his opinions on Twitter, calling Trudeau a “tyrant” with a lot of “chutzpah.”
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