{"id":1283094,"date":"2022-02-08T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1283094"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:09:58","slug":"conservative-opposition-leader-candice-bergen-to-trudeau-do-you-regret-disrespecting-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-opposition-leader-candice-bergen-to-trudeau-do-you-regret-disrespecting-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Opposition Leader Candice Bergen to Trudeau: Do You Regret Disrespecting Canadians?"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fconservative-opposition-leader-candice-bergen-to-trudeau-do-you-regret-disrespecting-canadians%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=1283094&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Conservative Party leader Candice Bergen confronted leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday about his repeated use of insults and epithets against individuals who choose not to receive a coronavirus vaccination product, asking if he regretted the role he played in dividing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau made a last-minute appearance in Parliament for Monday\u2019s emergency session, called by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejagmeetsingh\/status\/802734505920524289?lang=en\">communist<\/a> New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, after retreating to an undisclosed location at the start of the protests now known as the \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d which have taken over much of the country. Trudeau announced at the beginning of his retreat that he had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus, necessitating isolation. The largest Freedom Convoy protest is in Ottawa, the nation\u2019s capital, where truckers have flooded the streets and protested government civil rights abuses in the name of public health largely through honking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19760130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238185833.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19760130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238185833.jpg\" alt=\"Trucks parked in downtown Ottawa continue to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions, on February 4, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. - Hundreds of truckers drove their giant rigs into the Canadian capital on January 29, 2022, as part of a self-titled &quot;Freedom Convoy&quot; to protest vaccine mandates required to cross the US border. (Photo by Dave Chan \/ AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Trucks parked in downtown Ottawa continue to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions, on February 4, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. (DAVE CHAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An Ottawa court issued a ban on car horn honking for ten days on Monday in response to the protest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19761954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/freedom-convoy-ottowa-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19761954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/freedom-convoy-ottowa-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Supporters gather at Parliament Hill for the Freedom Truck Convoy in Ottawa, Canada, on January 29, 2022. (LARS HAGBERG\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere in the country, \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protests have occurred in multiple places along the U.S.-Canada border and major cities such as Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters assert that they oppose business lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, bans on religious gatherings, school restrictions, and any other government civil rights abuses meant to stop the spread of Chinese coronavirus. The protests have been largely peaceful, but leftist politicians, including Trudeau, have repeatedly accused opponents of the restrictions and supporters of the protests generally of unrelated inappropriate views, such as racism.<\/p>\n<p>During his remarks on Monday, Trudeau equated the thousands of \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protesters with Nazis, implying falsely that swastikas are common sights at the protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at our country Mr. Speaker, and I\u2019ve never seen it as divided as it is now under this prime minister,\u201d Bergen, who became interim Conservative leader after the ouster of Ed O\u2019Toole in the aftermath of the protests this month, told Trudeau. \u201cWhether its regional lines, whether its ethnic lines, whether it\u2019s people\u2019s health care choices \u2013 this country is more divided than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bergen then asked Trudeau if he took responsibility for his part in creating such a scenario.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDoes he regret calling people names who didn\u2019t take the vaccine?\u201d Bergen asked of Trudeau. \u201cDoes he regret calling people misogynist and racist and just, escalating and poking sticks at them and being so divisive to individual Canadians that he might not disagree with, that he might have thought were wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes he regret that,\u201d she concluded, \u201cand will he agree to meet with the leaders here, the other opposition leaders and myself, so that we can talk about a solution in a way that he\u2019s described?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bergen asserted that the current wave of protests and general political situation was \u201cuncharted territory\u201d for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau did not answer either question, instead insisting that the protests did not represent a significant enough population of Canadians that it merited a response from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are,\u201d Trudeau said, comparing the allege swastika-wavers to Canadians \u201cbeing able to pull a car out of a snowbank for a perfect stranger.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Trudeau has rejected all calls for him to address the protesters or their concerns. In remarks from his undisclosed location, Trudeau dismissed all people disgruntled with his government\u2019s handling of the pandemic as conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concerns expressed by a few people gathered in Ottawa, right now, are not new, not surprising, are heard, but are a continuation of what we\u2019ve unfortunately seen in disinformation and misinformation, online conspiracy theorists, about microchips, about God knows what else that go with tinfoil hats,\u201d Trudeau claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau has in the past used the terms \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cmisogynist\u201d to refer to people who do not receive Chinese coronavirus vaccine product doses.<\/p>\n<p>Bergen has, since becoming Conservative leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/04\/canadas-conservative-leader-candice-bergen-demands-blackface-trudeau-apologize-for-calling-truckers-racist\/\">attacked<\/a> Trudeau multiple times for accusing mandate protesters of being racists, noting that Trudeau himself has a long history of wearing blackface \u2013 a reality that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/20\/party-goer-recalls-justin-trudeaus-staggering-brownface-costume-stood-out\/\">surfaced<\/a> in the 2019 election cycle but caused no significant political damage to Trudeau. The prime minister told reporters at the time that he could not guarantee that the multiple photos that had surfaced of him wearing blackface were the only ones, because he had worn black<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s absence during much of the Freedom Convoy protests has outraged the protesters and prompted significant criticism from the protests\u2019 opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t serve this country to be bullied by a prime minister that ran away like a chicken,\u201d Darryl, a retired corporal from the Canadian Army who served in Afghanistan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/02\/07\/canadian-veteran-didnt-serve-bullied-chicken-pm\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News from downtown Ottawa on Saturday. \u201cWho runs away from their people? It\u2019s insane. If I was in the army right now, I\u2019d be contemplating leaving just because our leadership, our military, our country, will have no credibility because of him [Trudeau].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media commenters who have written in columns of their opposition to the convoy also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/canadian-left-accuses-justin-trudeau-of-leaving-leadership-void-after-vanishing-to-undisclosed-location\/\">blamed<\/a> Trudeau in various articles this week for the protests\u2019 prolonged existence, as he has done nothing to address them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw23AQC9DygBP6Uvx2AKooEo\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1V8tY067ZdeWpATK5ZWNXI\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Party leader Candice Bergen confronted leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday about his repeated use of insults and epithets against individuals who choose not to receive a &#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-1283094","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\/1283094","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=1283094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283094\/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=1283094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}