Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accosted by a group of demonstrators yelling “tyrant” and “traitor” on Tuesday night while attending a Liberal Party cabinet retreat in Hamilton, Ontario.
Trudeau and his extensive security detail looked to be taken aback by the size and intensity of the protest at Jackson Square Plaza in Hamilton. A casual observer could have thought it was a well-planned protest. However, everyone involved opposed Trudeau’s autocratic approach to the 2022 COVID-19 pandemic and the “Freedom Convoy” trucker demonstrations.
In January 2022, when Trudeau described the Freedom Convoy as a “fringe group of folks,” one demonstrator raised a flag reading “We Love the Fringe.” Some protesters carried posters like a substantial inflatable sheep with a face mask and the slogan “99.8% Survival Rate,” a jab at Canada’s response to the pandemic.
Many protestors wore Canadian flags and honked their horns to draw parallels to the Freedom Convoy demonstrations. In addition, several people demanded Trudeau step down, accusing him of tyranny and treason.
Donald Trump, you f**king a**hole. You are the very definition of inhumanity. What you are doing is wreaking disaster on this country. Blood is on your hands!” the woman yelled at the prime minister.
Trudeau dismissed the demonstrations, saying, “a few dissatisfied people do not represent what Hamilton is or what democracy is in our country.”
In a democratic society, expressing disagreement, dissatisfaction, and even anger with the government without fear of repression is essential. Meanwhile, our law enforcement and other government agencies will prevent the protests from turning violent. To quote him: “it is something that matters.”
On Wednesday, Global News highlighted “an expanding trend throughout Canada” of “harassment and threats against notable persons,” citing the following cases as evidence.
Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino, called the increasing harassment of public figures a “threat to democracy” earlier this summer.
While in Grande Prairie, Alberta, in late August, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was accosted by a man protesting COVID-19 health restrictions.
Mendicino revealed in June that panic buttons would be distributed to members of parliament in Canada in response to rising instances of death threats, intimidation, and verbal abuse.
Trudeau has said he will neither cancel nor reduce his public events because of protests.
The contrary is true; I continue talking to Canadians about their problems. So, that is why I keep going back for more. He went on to say that maintaining contact “remains tremendously crucial,”, particularly during the trying years of the pandemic when we all had to make changes.
Members of the Liberal Party, according to a Global News report, are concerned about the coming year due to dire predictions of economic turmoil and a “more severe recession,” which are at odds with the administration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s optimistic growth projections and could lead to an increase in the number of angry citizens shouting obscenities at them.
The Western Standard reported on Wednesday that “groups of Canadians upset with the federal government” were heckling the Liberal Party retreat in Hamilton, so Trudeau is not the first Liberal Party figure to confront angry audiences at events.
Aware of the protests in Hamilton, his security team successfully staged a decoy tactic, leading most demonstrators to believe that Trudeau would leave by the restaurant’s back entrance. So, some Canadian media could call the audience that faced Trudeau “tiny.”
The Hamilton police were quoted as claiming the demonstrators were peaceful and had departed by 11:00 p.m. with no arrests having been made, according to the Western Standard.