Trudeau criticized in European Parliament

Majority of seats empty during Trudeau's speech to European Parliament | Post Millennial - Roberto Wakerell-Cruz:

March 23, 2022 - "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had trouble filling out the seats of European Parliament during his speech [March 23]. Video posted by Global News's David Akin shows the majority of seats in Parliament empty.... 'As [Justin Trudeau] enters the European Parliament, I count about 200 of the 705 MEPs are in their seats. Gallery however is packed,' tweeted Akin with the video. The prime minister addressed the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium during a two-day visit, where he will attend meetings of G7 and NATO leaders concerning the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.... 

"Trudeau also took time to criticize the Freedom Convoy protests that took place in Ottawa throughout February. 'They pretend to have easy solutions that play on people's fears. Even in Canada, where 90 percent of people are vaccinated, and our motto as a country "peace, order, and good government," we saw anti-vaccine and antigovernment protest evolve into illegal occupations of our communities and blockades of our borders,' said Trudeau, who said that the leaders of the convoys were 'effective in turning citizens with real anxieties against the system bet suited to allay those concerns.' Trudeau said that democracy 'isn't a game,' and that there are no easy solutions to the 'big, complex problems we're all facing.'"
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'DICTATORSHIP OF THE WORST KIND': European MPs blast Trudeau for COVID 'rights violation' | Toronto Sun - Eddie Chau: 

March 24, 2022 - "During a plenary session of parliament Wednesday in Brussels, several MEPs called Trudeau out, accusing him of violating human rights over the handling of the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa last month. 

"In one speech that has gone viral online, MEP Mislav Kolakusic of Croatia criticized Canada’s leader, stating, 'There are those among us who trample on those fundamental values'.... 'For many of us are fundamental human rights for which millions of citizens of Europe and the world have laid down their lives,” Kolakusic said in front of Trudeau, who had addressed parliament. 'To defend our rights and the rights of our children, which we have acquired over the centuries, many of us, including myself, are willing to risk, our freedom and our own lives.' 

"Kolakusic said Canada was once a symbol of the modern world but in recent months has become a 'symbol of civil rights violation' under Trudeau’s 'quasi-liberal boot.' 'We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block bank accounts of single parents so they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine, that they can’t pay utilities, mortgages for their homes,' said Kolakusic.... The Croatian MEP had previously stated vaccination should be a choice for residents of the European Union, comparing vaccine mandates to capital punishment and murder....

"MEP Christine Anderson of Germany said Trudeau shouldn’t be allowed to speak to the European Parliament over the handling of the Freedom Convoy, calling him a 'disgrace for any democracy.' 'A prime minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship, who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy should not be allowed to speak in this house at all,' said Anderson. Anderson — whose critics have accused her of being part of a right-wing movement in Europe — has been criticized for refusing to wear a mask in parliament and committee meetings in 2021.

"Another MEP, Cristian Terhes of Romania, refused to attend the meeting because of Trudeau. In a Facebook post, Terhes said Trudeau can’t come and 'teach democracy lessons to Putin from the European Parliament when you trample with horse hooves your own citizens who are demanding their fundamental rights be respected. The difference between democracy and tyranny is not determined by the geographical location of political leaders, but by the values they promote,' said Terhes.

"German MEP Bernhard Zimniok also blasted Trudeau, stating he valued democracy highly and welcoming Trudeau is 'an invitation to someone who has been trampling on democratic rights.' Zimniok said Trudeau has been 'cracking down on people who protested against disproportionate corona measures, people who were supporting a non-sanctioned movement coming under criticism.... Clearly the values of democracy are being despised by this individual,' he said. 'Let us not give someone like this any speaking time in this house of democracy.'"
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