Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 8:06 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Former Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Andrew Scheer blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government for using the “same playbook” of former Eastern European communist regimes with the help of the country’s state-run broadcaster to enact the Emergencies Act (EA).
“The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting System) is doing their best to try to calm people’s fears that Trudeau might abuse his power. I’m not gonna buy it. I’m not gonna take it from him just on his word alone. You know, this is the exact same playbook that dictatorial governments in Eastern Europe used to use all the time,” said Scheer, who serves as an MP for Saskatchewan, in a video posted to his Facebook page last Friday that has been viewed 545,000 times.
“Everything they did to take away people’s freedom was always justified for things like public safety, and to keep order and to keep peace. Remember the Berlin Wall?”
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said that the “excuse” for the Berlin Wall was to “keep foreign enemies out. It was never presented to the people of East Berlin that it was going to keep them trapped
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