{"id":1288443,"date":"2022-02-10T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288443"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:07:45","slug":"its-time-to-stop-dividing-trudeau-faces-party-backlash-over-attacks-on-protesters-covid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-to-stop-dividing-trudeau-faces-party-backlash-over-attacks-on-protesters-covid-response\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Time To Stop Dividing\u2019: Trudeau Faces Party Backlash Over Attacks On Protesters, COVID Response"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fits-time-to-stop-dividing-trudeau-faces-party-backlash-over-attacks-on-protesters-covid-response%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=1288443&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Justin-Trudeau-1-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing growing criticism from within his own party as he continues to refuse concessions in what is developing into a weeks-long protest of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>At least two liberal MPs have spoken out against Trudeau\u2019s treatment of Freedom Convoy protesters that have demonstrated in Canada\u2019s capital city for nearly two weeks against vaccine mandates and other measures. Trudeau has dismissed the protests as those of a \u201csmall, fringe minority\u201d and attempted to paint protesters far-right extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal MP Joel Lightbound held a press conference on Tuesday and ripped the Canadian government\u2019s response to COVID-19 and said that Canadians are confused that despite rising vaccination numbers and falling case rates of severe illness, strict lockdown measures still remain in place with no timetable on when they will be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there lies the frustration. They feel there is no appetite from our government to adapt so as to reflect the changing data and the changing reality of the pandemic of the world,\u201d Lightbound said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/politics\/joel-lightbound-full-transcript\">National Post<\/a>. They\u2019re worried that measures which ought to be exceptional and limited in time are being normalized with no end in sight, like vaccine passports, mandates and requirements for travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re worried because they feel it is becoming harder and harder to know where public health stops and where politics begins,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Convoy protest began as a revolt by many in the trucking industry against vaccine mandates for truck drivers. Lightbound addressed that regulation specifically, saying that the reasoning for it has become irrational to most Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vaccine requirement for truckers to me is a good example. And if we forget about the demonstrations, and we forget about the convoy for just a second, and look at that policy for what it is. This is a policy that now goes against the World Health Organization\u2019s recommendation and for which no epidemiological studies and projections have been provided,\u201d Lightbound said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s time to stop dividing Canadians, to stop pitting one part of the population against another. I can\u2019t help but notice with regret that both tone and the policies of my government changed drastically on the eve and during the last election campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a positive and unifying approach, a decision was made to wedge to divide and to stigmatize. I fear that this politicization (of) the pandemic risks undermining the public\u2019s trust in public-health institutions. This is not a risk we ought to be taking lightly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to stop with the division and the distractions. It\u2019s time to choose positive, not coercive methods. It\u2019s time to unite. Finally, why am I alone voicing these concerns publicly today? I can tell you that I\u2019m not the only one who feels varying degrees as I do within our ranks,\u201d Lightbound concluded. \u201cI remain hopeful this call for more humanism, for more reason, for more hope will be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberal MP Yves Robillard followed up Lightbound\u2019s comments a day later, expressing support for his fellow Liberal Party member and claiming that far more lawmakers feel as he and Lightbound do about Canada\u2019s approach to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Lightbound] said exactly what a lot of us think,\u201d Robillard told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/2022\/02\/09\/quebec-liberal-mp-robillard-also-breaks-ranks-questions-trudeau-governments-handling-of-pandemic-sides-with-lightbound\/343476\">The Hill Times<\/a>. \u201cI agree with everything that Lightbound said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing growing criticism from within his own party as he continues to refuse concessions in what is developing into a weeks-long protest of COVID-19 &#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-1288443","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\/1288443","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=1288443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288443\/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=1288443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}