Outrage as Trudeau stokes divisions in Canada by smearing anti-mandate Freedom Convoy as ‘swastika wavers’: Protesters blockade busiest border crossing to the US at Detroit
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke out against trucker protests paralyzing Canada’s capital city
- Trudeau, speaking Monday on the floor of the legislature the first time since the crisis began, warned demonstrators they were affecting the economy and trying to undermine democracy
- He branded protesters in Ottawa as a ‘few people shouting and waving swastikas’
- He dismissed opposition viewpoints that the trucks and big rigs parked throughout in Ottawa were a symbol of how bitterly divided the country was over the pandemic
- ‘This is a story of a country that got through this pandemic by being united, and a few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are,’ Trudeau said
- ‘This pandemic has sucked for all Canadians,’ the prime minister said. ‘Everyone’s tired of COVID, but these protests are not the way to get through it’
- Tucker Carlson slammed Trudeau’s response, claiming the demonstrators are being treated like terrorists
- Canadian truckers blasted the government and Ottawa police Monday after members of their ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest were arrested and charged with hate crimes
- Demonstrations continued into Tuesday as trucks blocked traffic on the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest border crossing to the United States, between Detroit, Michigan and the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario
- The bridge, which is normally traveled by approximately 8,000 big rigs a day, remained closed on the U.S. side Tuesday morning, according Michigan Department of Transportation
- US sympathizers with the blockade marched across Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy