January 29, 2022 - 11:20 am

Should Justin Trudeau be deciding what views are ‘acceptable’? Rex Murphy

A couple of years ago Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was sending valentines to our noble truckers for keeping Canadians fed through their deliveries. Yet a couple of days before this weekend’s gathering of the aforementioned truckers, who have travelled half of Canada in midwinter, from both directions, to express their concerns and feelings in a peaceful protest, he shoved them to the margins, declaring them a “fringe” and their views “unacceptable.”

“Trudeau, in perhaps his meanest public statement to date, scorned them. He dismissed and derogated their motives. He gave the dismissal in his best “I’m-a-real-leader,” determined voice. His “I-really-mean-it-this-time” voice.

He described them as “a small fringe minority.” A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, someone once said. But this “small fringe minority” can’t be Canadians. They have “unacceptable views.”

“Unacceptable views?” Are we in China now?”

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/rex-murphy-should-justin-trudeau-be-deciding-what-views-are-acceptable/ar-AATg6mr?