Mislav Kolakusic, a Member of European Parliament (MEP) from Croatia, castigated Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau on Tuesday for the latter’s controversial methods of suppressing civil rights protests in Canada.
The speech came during Trudeau’s two-day trip to Belgium, and the Canadian Prime Minister sat, masked, directly behind Kolakusic as the Croatian MEP called out his treatment of domestic protesters.
“Dear colleagues and citizens, Prime Minister Trudeau. Freedom, the right to choose the right to life the right to health the right to work for many of us are fundamental human rights for which millions of citizens for which millions of European citizens and around the world have laid down their lives,” Kolakusic stated.
“To defend our rights and the rights of our children we have acquired over the centuries, many of us, including myself, are willing to risk our own freedom and our own lives,” he continued, “Unfortunately, today, there are those among us who trample on these fundamental values.”
PM Trudeau, in recent months, under your quasi-liberal boot, Canada 🇨🇦 has become a symbol of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many citizens around the🌎it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind. pic.twitter.com/FZuc6aDZ1I
— Mislav Kolakusic MEP 🇭🇷🇪🇺 (@mislavkolakusic) March 23, 2022
The MEP further noted that “Canada, once a symbol of the modern world, has become a symbol of civil rights violation under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months.”
“We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block the bank accounts of single parents so that they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine, that they can’t pay utilities for mortgages and their homes,” Kolakusic said.
“To you, these may be liberal methods, for many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind,” Kolakusic concluded. “Rest assured that citizens of the world, united can stop any regime that wants to destroy the freedom of citizens, either by bombs or harmful pharmaceutical products.”
Kolakusic echoed this closing statement in the caption for a video of his speech that he posted to social media on Wednesday.
Trudeau has maintained that protests against COVID restrictions in Canada are fueled by “cynical populists” who hold racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic views.
