Conservative Celebration deputy leader and legislator Candice Bergen condemned leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for calling those protesting vaccine mandates “racist” and “misogynist” after he “wore blackface on more times than he can keep in mind.”
Speaking in the Canadian Home of Commons of the trucker-led protesters called the “Liberty Convoy,” Bergen stated, “I do get extremely protective of Canadians who are outdoors today: patriotic, peace-loving Canadians who are called misogynists and racists by the Prime Minister.”
Images of Trudeau using blackface, dark face paint utilized for racist mockery of black individuals, first surfaced in 2019. Trudeau admitted to the preliminary pictures as more surfaced of him in racist costumes on other occasions. Asked by press reporters if knew of other instances in which he had worn blackface, he confessed that there were too many of them and he could not be “definitive” about the number of.
“I watch out for being conclusive about this since the recent images that came out, I had not remembered,” Trudeau acknowledged.
On Monday, Bergen implicated Trudeau of being dissentious and “gaslighting” Canadians, stating, “All Canadians wish to see a leader who will work to recover rifts, not further divide. A leader who will listen, even to those voices he might not agree with. A leader who will work to understand, not dismiss, name-call, and gaslight.”
Bergen remained in the middle of a heated dispute with Trudeau’s Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino, who reacted saying, “I believe we all support totally free speech in this Home, however there’s a big distinction in between totally free speech and inciting hatred, inciting violence, desecrating war memorials, Mr. Speaker, and I would hope my honorable coworker would knock that in the clearest terms.”
He called the protesters “radical leaders” who “are not really thinking about free speech due to the fact that they wish to pretend as though vaccines don’t work.”
Bergen, to raucous applause, condemned all “hateful and destructive acts by a couple of at any protest,” making certain to keep in mind many instances of leftist violence and statue desecration in Canada.
“Whether it’s beheading the statue of Queen Victoria in Manitoba, taking apart the statue of Sir John A. [Macdonald] in Montreal, or putting flags on Terry Fox,” she stated.
Bergen recited a list: “Whether it’s burning down churches, whether it’s wearing blackface, whether it’s Hezbollah flags, or NAZI flags, we all condemn it. But I’m not speaking about that.”
Mendicino then accused the protesters– who, according to the Ottawa police chief, have engaged in no violence or residential or commercial property destruction– of having “called for the incitement of violence, to overthrow this federal government, who have triggered considerable disruption by flagrantly ignoring public health care procedures that have required stores and services to close, that have actually desecrated war memorials.”
“They’re not interested in complimentary speech, they’re not interested in discourse, and they’re definitely not interested in advancing our way out of this pandemic,” he continued. [Focus included]
To this, Bergen appeared to implicate Mendicino of lying, stating, “That minister is not telling the truth and it’s outrageous to see what he is doing,” prior to being stopped by the Speaker for decorum. She then toned it down a bit, stating “That minister is misleading Canadians.”
Even as Conservative MP Arnold Viersen tried to pass a motion condemning blackface by unanimous consent, members of Trudeau’s Liberal Party of Canada shot it down.
Liberal MPs reject unanimous grant movement from Conservative MP @ArnoldViersen condemning blackface. pic.twitter.com/jBA1vQiXBc
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 1, 2022
Trudeau ran away Ottawa and was taken to a “secret place” as the Freedom Convoy got here in the capital city. At the location, he continued to weaken the protesters by providing a speech in which he stated they were using “tinfoil hats,” and he said receiving the vaccine to look after one another is “what being Canadian is.” He also said that he did not meet the Flexibility Convoy since he did not “agree” with them, unlike with leftist Black Lives Matter protesters, whom he kneeled before in 2020.
“I have actually gone to protests and rallies in the past when I agree with the goals, [and] when I supported individuals expressing their concerns and their concerns. Black Lives Matter is an exceptional example of that,” he stated.
‘Complete B.S.’: Participants Slam Justin Trudeau’s Claim of ‘Racist’ Trucker Convoy https://t.co/OqaHu6KgFs via @BreitbartNews
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 31, 2022
Despite Trudeau’s contention that receiving the vaccine is “what being Canadian is,” polling launched Monday recommends a majority of Canadians want to end all coronavirus restrictions.
Canadian officials, on the other hand, are seeking an end to the Freedom Convoy. Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly, who acknowledged the assembly in the national capital was serene, stated, “All alternatives are on the table” to end it, consisting of “enforcement.”
Here are some Manitobans I satisfied and talked with last night. These were the “undesirable views” they were expressing: they and millions like them have actually had enough of the lockdowns and damaged guarantees. They deserve to be heard and they should have regard. #FreedomConvoyCanada 2022 pic.twitter.com/JCXLRlo7md
— Candice Bergen (@CandiceBergenMP) January 31, 2022
While thousands of truckers and other Canadians converged on the capital city of Ottawa in demonstration, Trudeau called the protesters a “fringe minority” with “inappropriate views.” This “fringe minority,” however, raised more cash than Canada’s leading political celebrations, clocking in at $9,746,900 Canadian, or nearly $7.7 million USD.
Trudeau’s Liberals, on the other hand, raised only $3.7 million Canadian, and the Conservatives had just over $3 million Canadian.
Breccan F. Thiesis a press reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @BreccanFThies.