By Quinn Patrick
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lamented the troubling state of the free press in Canada after news circulated that a Rebel Media journalist was arrested while trying to question Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Poilievre took to X to condemn the incident after a video of the arrest went viral on social media.
“This is the state of freedom of the press,” wrote Poilievre on X. “In Canada. In 2024. After 8 years of Trudeau.”
Menzies, a journalist for Rebel News, attempted to question Freeland on Monday about why the Trudeau government hasn’t deemed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist entity.
The exchange took place in Richmond Hill, Ont. outside a memorial service commemorating the victims of Flight PS752.
Menzies was arrested in the exchange and the officer arresting him claimed that Menzies assaulted him, although the journalist was eventually released without any charges.