CALGARY, Alberta, May 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — As protests against lockdown and mask mandates are on the rise in the province of Alberta, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi called protesters “thinly-veiled white nationalist supremacists.”
According to Rebel News, this past weekend, thousands of people from around the world, including Australia, gathered at a ranch in Alberta to partake in a rodeo as a protest against the COVID-19 regulations. Videos of the event circulated on social media and quickly went viral.
In a video interview with Global News, Nenshi condemned the protests and accused the protestors of being racists. “Those people at those anti-mask protests, let’s not kid ourselves,” he said. “They’re not people who [are protesting because they] need to eat. They are people who are marching in thinly-veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests.”
He also claimed that the protests across Alberta “have increasingly become forums for hatred, for white nationalist groups and others to attach themselves to this conversation, such that the original discussion is completely lost.”
According to the Western Standard, Nenshi has previously demanded that citizens be more severely punished for partaking in the protest by the court system. “I think it’s handcuffing the police and their work,
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