{"id":1266434,"date":"2022-02-02T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266434"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:37:55","slug":"fact-check-did-justin-trudeau-call-on-canadians-to-make-life-difficult-for-unvaccinated-citizens-in-a-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-justin-trudeau-call-on-canadians-to-make-life-difficult-for-unvaccinated-citizens-in-a-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Justin Trudeau Call On Canadians To \u2018Make Life Difficult\u2019 For Unvaccinated Citizens In A Facebook Post?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-justin-trudeau-call-on-canadians-to-make-life-difficult-for-unvaccinated-citizens-in-a-facebook-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HG8LQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a Facebook post from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which he asks the public to \u201cmake life difficult\u201d for unvaccinated citizens.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Trudeau making this statement. A spokesperson for his office denied the alleged post was shared by the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HG8LQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> allegedly shows a screenshot of a post from Trudeau\u2019s verified Facebook account addressing the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protest in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In the post, Trudeau appears to denounce the convoy while claiming he supports \u201cunity and inclusion\u201d before shifting his focus to unvaccinated citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have family or friends that still haven\u2019t been vaccinated, do not allow them to family dinners, do not speak to them on the phone, do not reply to their texts,\u201d Trudeau allegedly wrote. \u201cYou need to do everything you can to make life difficult for them until they comply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image, however, is fabricated. There is no record of the message on Trudeau\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044171992369\/search\/?q=make%20life%20difficult\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=vaccinated%20(from%3AJustinTrudeau)&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/justinpjtrudeau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/04Z1Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archived<\/a> versions of the prime minister\u2019s Facebook and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220131175327\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> from Jan. 31, the day the alleged screenshot was shared, show he made no such statement that day.&nbsp;Check Your Fact likewise found no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=justin+trudeau+make+life+difficult+tweet&amp;hl=en&amp;biw=960&amp;bih=972&amp;sxsrf=APq-WBsesX-gCcFSFCL8IKiil0lVb8JcGA%3A1643816147191&amp;ei=06T6YZL9Cu6optQP1p0P&amp;oq=Justin+Trudeau+make+life&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMYADIECCMQJzoHCAAQRxCwAzoKCAAQRxCwAxDJAzoICAAQkgMQsAM6CwgAEIAEELEDEIMBOgQIABADOgUIABCABDoGCAAQFhAeSgQIQRgASgQIRhgAUNgKWJsSYM4baAFwAngAgAFtiAHEBZIBAzguMZgBAKABAcgBA8ABAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> that attributed such a post to the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that no, this is not our post,\u201d said a spokesperson for the prime minister\u2019s office in an email to Check Your Fact. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/24\/fact-check-morgan-freeman-stop-taking-tests-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Morgan Freeman Say, \u2018Stop Taking Tests And Live Your Life\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trudeau did say in January 2022 that Canadians were \u201cfrustrated\u201d and \u201cangry\u201d with unvaccinated citizens who refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine despite a surge in cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-unvaccinated-canadians-covid-hospitals-1.6305159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a> reported. \u201cWhen people see that we are in lockdowns or serious public health restrictions right now because of the risk posed to all of us by unvaccinated people, people get angry,\u201d Trudeau said according to the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a Facebook post from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which he asks the public to \u201cmake life difficult\u201d for unvaccinated citizens.Verdict: False &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}