People’s Party leader calls Canadian health minister ‘fascist’ over mandatory COVID shot comments
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‘Fascist Liberal minister is preparing the ground for draconian violation of our fundamental rights and bodily autonomy,’ tweeted Maxime Bernier.
(LifeSiteNews) — Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PCC), said Canada’s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is a “fascist” for calling for mandatory COVID shots.
“Fascist Liberal minister is preparing the ground for draconian violation of our fundamental rights and bodily autonomy,” tweeted Bernier on Friday, adding, “MY BODY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE STATE.”
Last Friday, Duclos, who was recently appointed to his position by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said that Canada’s provincial governments might soon introduce mandatory vaccination policies.
“The only way that we know to get through COVID-19, this variant and any future variant, is through vaccination,” he said, adding, “I think that discussions need to be had about mandatory vaccinations.”
Duclos said that conversations with provincial governments over making COVID jabs mandatory in order to combat COVID variants will be coming soon. He also claimed that jabs are the only way out of the crisis, but that mandatory vaccine policies would be up to each province.
On Friday, Bernier tweeted, “Governments are not resorting to authoritarian measures because they really want to defeat the virus,” but “because they want to crush any spirit of opposition to tyranny.”
Over the weekend, many Canadians, including some Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Members of Parliament (MPs) came out against Duclos’ mandatory jab comments.
CPC MP Michael Cooper from Alberta said the federal government under Trudeau was truly entering “authoritarian territory” over talk of mandatory jab mandates.
“This is outrageous! Justin Trudeau’s government is entering into truly dangerous, authoritarian territory. State-imposed, involuntary medical interventions are un-Canadian and have no place in a free and democratic society,” tweeted Cooper Friday.
CPC MP Ryan Williams from Ontario said no to any talk of a mandatory jab. “It’s time to start talking about system capacity,” he tweeted on Saturday.
Two Canadian Premiers, Alberta’s Jason Kenney, and Scott Moe of Saskatchewan said their provinces would not be mandating any vaccines in response to Duclos’s mandatory jab comments.