Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 12:51 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A Republican congresswoman said she will propose a bill seeking to give political asylum to Canadians persecuted by the Trudeau government.
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, giving him the power to freeze private bank accounts without a court order and to disband peaceful protests with brute force, Rep. Yvette Herrell from New Mexico tweeted she will be proposing legislation that would provide political asylum to “innocent Canadian protestors who are being persecuted by their own government.”
“Justin Trudeau’s heavy-handed crackdown against peaceful protesters in Canada is not the action of a Western Democracy, but that of an authoritarian regime like Venezuela,” Herell posted to social media last Saturday.
“Just as we provide asylum for political prisoners, we should do the same for truckers who have been subjected to violence, had their property confiscated, and their bank accounts frozen by a government that is quickly becoming the embarrassment of the free world,” continued the congresswoman.
“I am introducing legislation that would temporarily grant asylum to innocent Canadian protesters who are being persecuted by their own government. We cannot be silent as our neighbors to
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