Two European parliamentarians blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his handling of the recent Freedom Convoy protests, saying Canada has become a 鈥渟ymbol of civil rights violations.鈥�
Following a Wednesday speech from Trudeau in Brussels 鈥� his first in five years 鈥� in which he defended democracy and warned of mounting populism, two MPs rose with fierce rebuttal.
said under Trudeau鈥檚 鈥渜uasi-Liberal boot,鈥� in recent months the world 鈥渨atched how you trample women with horses鈥� referring to the police on horseback who cleared out the convoy occupation in downtown Ottawa.
Kolakusic previously and claimed 鈥渢ens of thousands of citizens鈥� have died due to vaccine side-effects. found that Kolakusic鈥檚 claim is 鈥渕ostly triggered by a misunderstanding of information.鈥�
, there have been 13,434 reports of deaths after vaccination in the United States. That figure does not necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the death and represents just 0.0024 per cent of the overall doses administered in the U.S.
The Freedom Convoy movement began as a protest against all vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions but took on broader objectives through the duration of its encampment.
Kolakusic went on to slam the steps Ottawa took through invoking the Emergencies Act to freeze bank accounts, claiming it prevented single parents from being able to pay for medicine, education, and their mortgages.
鈥淭o you, these may be liberal methods, for many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind,鈥� said Kolakusic on Wednesday.
The video of this speech posted on Twitter has garnered more than one million views as of Thursday afternoon.
German MEP Christine Anderson, who echoed similar remarks, said Trudeau was a 鈥渄isgrace for any democracy鈥� and asked that he please spare them his presence.
鈥淎 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,鈥� said Anderson.
Anderson is a member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party and has falsely claimed that COVID-19 vaccines are 鈥渆xperimental鈥� and 鈥渘ot been properly vetted and tested.鈥� She has also refused to be tested for COVID-19.
A third politician, Romanian MEP Christian Terhes, refused to attend the speech all together, that he 鈥渞efused to validate the imposition鈥� of Trudeau.
Terhes, the only member of European Parliament from the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party, previously told reporters that vaccine mandates are taking the "right to decide as they want to do with their own bodies."
With files from CTVNews.ca Writer Ben Cousins and Reuters
