Trudeau once praised truckers during lockdown, now accuses them of ‘violence,’ ‘hateful rhetoric’

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as soon as heralded truck drivers for his or her work through the pandemic earlier than slamming those self same truckers for allegedly spewing “hateful rhetoric” throughout their “Freedom Convoy” protest in opposition to a vaccine mandate. 

“Whereas many people are working from dwelling, there are others who aren’t ready to do this – just like the truck drivers who’re working day and evening to verify our cabinets are stocked. So when you possibly can, please #ThankATrucker for all the things they’re doing and assist them nevertheless you possibly can,” Trudeau tweeted on March 31, 2020. 

Trudeau’s tweet got here because the coronavirus was first spreading around the globe and Canada carried out lockdowns in an try and cease the unfold. 

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Practically two years later, Trudeau is slamming the identical truck drivers as they protest the federal authorities’s vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers.

Trudeau addressed the nation Monday afternoon and accused the truckers and different protesters of spewing “hateful rhetoric,” expressing “violence towards fellow residents” and being “an insult to reminiscence and fact.” 

The “Freedom Convoy” reached Ottawa this weekend and have been joined by 1000’s of different protesters taking to the streets and demanding vaccine mandates and different coronavirus restrictions be repealed. 

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The grassroots protests have been overwhelmingly described as peaceable, with most disturbances coming within the type of individuals dancing, chanting and honking horns. Police in Ottawa did say they’re investigating some potential prison prices concerning individuals allegedly urinating on a conflict memorial and displaying an indication studying “Mandate Freedom” on the statue of Canadian athlete Terry Fox. 

Critics lambasted the prime minister for accusing the protesters of being violent and hateful. 

“This nation proper now is sort of a uncooked nerve and the prime minister is leaping up and down on it time and again together with his inflammatory document rhetoric,” member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre advised the Home of Commons on Monday. “We’re speaking about individuals who have 14-year-old youngsters which might be suicidal after two years of lockdowns.”

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Throughout Trudeau’s press convention, which was held just about following his constructive coronavirus check earlier on Monday, he additionally expressed that he helps Canadians holding protests when he agrees with their platforms, and highlighted the Black Lives Matter motion as a gleaming instance. 

His Monday statements have been solely his newest remarks slamming truckers and their protest. Final week, he tried to downplay the trucking convoy as being composed of a “small fringe minority” of people that maintain “unacceptable views.”

His remarks have been shortly condemned when protesters descended on the town Saturday in huge numbers. 

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“It could seem that the so-called ‘fringe minority’ is definitely the federal government,” Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk tweeted. 

The prime minister’s dealing with of the protests and ensuing criticisms have been compounded by Trudeau reportedly fleeing his residence within the capital over alleged safety threats forward of the protests. He has been slammed as a “coward” who “ran away from your individual residents.”

Regardless of the onslaught of criticism, Trudeau defended his feedback denouncing the truckers in a collection of tweets Monday night. 

 

The prime minister’s press workplace didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information’ request for touch upon his 2020 tweet praising truckers in mild of his current rhetoric.