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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – A Conservative leadership candidate says Canada is currently undergoing an “erosion” of its democracy under the Trudeau government.
In an interview last week with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate and current independent member of provincial parliament in Ontario, Roman Baber, hammered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government over its approach to the so-called pandemic and its treatment of the anti-COVID mandate Freedom Convoy protesters.
“We saw the federal government using the Emergencies Act for the first time in its existence to crackdown on what was largely a peaceful protest,” stated Baber after mentioning the Trudeau government’s consistent efforts to censor speech and political dissent through internet regulation bills such as C-11.
“I think we should encourage opinion and dissent not discourage it,” added the politician.
Continuing, Baber stated that “of course police should enforce existing by-laws,” but “here [there] was absolutely no necessity in the declaration of an emergency or riot police against bystanders on the Hill. That was unacceptable.”
“No one, regretfully, actually discussed the issue at dispute which are
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