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Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre criticized Trudeau’s Liberals as ‘trying to win popularity by targeting what they perceive as an unpopular minority and to spread fear, keep everyone afraid for as long as possible,’
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was taking “advantage” of the coronavirus crisis as a power grab opportunity while voicing support for the 50,000-strong truck convoy currently blockading Parliament.
Speaking alongside a section of the “Freedom Truckers” convoy on its way to Ottawa to protest the Trudeau government’s dictatorial COVID jab mandates, Poilievre said that “governments have taken advantage of COVID to try and take away our freedom and give themselves more power starting with Trudeau, whose Deputy PM said that this was a political opportunity, and that’s how the liberals have viewed this from the very beginning.”
“Right now, they’re trying to win popularity by targeting what they perceive as an unpopular minority and to spread fear, keep everyone afraid for as long as possible,” the politician continued. “That’s what the liberals are doing but we have to replace that fear with freedom and optimism.”
Poilievre has sustained support for the protest over the past week, defending participants against mainstream media slurs, which suggested that they were “extremists.”
The Conservative MP criticized an attempt to smear all protesters supporting the Freedom Convoy by journalists who drew a parallel between the demonstrators and what they called “extreme elements” of COVID mandate resistance.
Poilievre told reporters outside Parliament on Thursday that “when there is a left-wing protest on Parliament Hill, we don’t see the liberal media going through every single name of the people who attend to try and find one person they can disparage the whole group with.”