Thu Feb 17, 2022 – 6:37 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – On Wednesday in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Jewish Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Melissa Lantsman of standing with people who wave “swastikas” and “confederate” flags after she blasted him for calling the freedom truckers “racists.” However, he refused to apologize.
The remarks from Trudeau came in response to a question from Lantsman to him, when she reminded him in 2015 that he said, “If Canadians are to trust their government, their government has to trust Canadians.”
Lantsman went on to remind Trudeau that he has described the truckers in the Freedom Convoy as “very often misogynistic, racist, women-haters, science deniers, the fringe. ”
She then added that Trudeau was “fanning the flames of an unjustified national emergency,” asking when he lost “his way. When did it happen?”
In response to Lantsman, Trudeau said, “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. These
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