Covid-Stricken Trudeau Uses Trucker Protest to Attack Tory Rival
(Bloomberg) -- Justin Trudeau denounced abusive behavior and racist imagery at a protest against vaccine mandates that saw lines of big-rig trucks blockade the downtown core of Canada’s capital.
The Liberal prime minister, speaking Monday from an Ottawa-area cottage where he is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, also used weekend antics by members of the protest convoy to criticize his political opponents. His Conservative rival shot back, accusing Trudeau of stoking division.
“Over the past few days, Canadians were shocked and -- frankly -- disgusted by the behavior displayed by some people protesting in our nation’s capital,” Trudeau, 50, said at a virtual news conference.
The convoy of truckers and other activists swelled to its height Saturday, when thousands of people marched around the parliamentary precinct. Though non-violent so far, an image of a Nazi flag, and a separate instance of a Confederate flag, circulated on social media along with footage of beer-drinking protesters dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A nearby soup kitchen was also raided.
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