In response to a question posed by Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman during Question Period in the Canadian House of Commons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau replied:
Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas; they can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag. We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, to be able to get their lives back.
Lantsman would later tweet:
I think the Prime Minister should think long and hard about his own history before singling out a Jewish Member of Parliament and falsely accusing me of standing with a Swastika. What a disgraceful statement unbecoming of anyone in public office - he owes me an apology.
Tory leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre got in on the action as well:
A new low, even for Trudeau: he falsely accuses a Jewish MP and descendent of holocaust survivors of standing with people who wave swastikas. She did not.
Enough lying and dividing.
Unite Canadians for freedom.
Except that Trudeau didn't single out Lantsman. He criticized the Conservative Party at large and his assessment is correct.
The Tories have stood with the COVIDIOT Convoy even though one of its chief organizers is a Holocaust denier.
The Tories have stood with the COVIDIOT Convoy knowing full well some of its members have been carrying swastikas.
The Tories have stood with the COVIDIOT Convoy knowing full well some of its members have been wearing yellow Stars of David as if taking a life saving vaccine were akin to being sent to a death camp for being a Jew.
In view of these facts, it is difficult for me to take Lantsman's claims seriously let alone the claims of the Conservative Party that Trudeau was somehow singling her out.
If the Conservative Party wants to embrace the COVIDIOT Convoy then they embrace all of it including the swastikas. Because if not for its anti-Semitism and hatred there would be no convoy in the first place.
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