{"id":1296104,"date":"2022-02-14T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296104"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:38:31","slug":"justin-trudeau-tanks-in-the-polls-with-both-supporters-and-opponents-of-freedom-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justin-trudeau-tanks-in-the-polls-with-both-supporters-and-opponents-of-freedom-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau Tanks in the Polls with Both Supporters and Opponents of &#039;Freedom Convoy&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fjustin-trudeau-tanks-in-the-polls-with-both-supporters-and-opponents-of-freedom-convoy%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=1296104&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\">Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a popularity collapse, several polls published this weekend found, in the aftermath of his handling of the ongoing \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d anti-mandate protests \u2013 with both supporters and opponents of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau has branded the thousands participating in trucker-led protests nationwide \u201ca few people shouting and waving swastikas\u201d and described them as wearing \u201ctinfoil hats.\u201d He has refused to engage in any discussions with those supporting a full repeal of civil rights violations in the name of containing the Chinese coronavirus pandemic and rejected calls from members of a variety of political parties in the country to appeal to unity and dialogue to resolve the protests.<\/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<p>The \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d is a national series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/02\/04\/kraychik-fact-fiction-ground-canada-freedom-convoy\/\">peaceful protests<\/a> characterized by truckers using their large vehicles to block international crossings along Canada\u2019s southern border and occupy major cities, using honking as their act of discontent. In Ottawa, the national capital, protesters have been present for two weeks, organizing dancing, free meal distributions, children\u2019s entertainment, and other activities that have given the protests a festival atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters are most urgently opposed to Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandates and sanitary mask mandates but have also called for the government to stop limiting assemblies and shutting down businesses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19875162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238384507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19875162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238384507-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Anti-vaccine mandate protestors block the roadway at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on February 11, 2022. (GEOFF ROBINS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The polling firm Maru Group <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5a17333eb0786935ac112523\/t\/6207dd61241b794ff6923dea\/1644682594203\/Trudeau+troubles+release+14+02+22.pdf\">found<\/a> in a poll published Monday that&nbsp;nearly half of Canadians, 48 percent, believe Trudeau \u201cis not up to the job of being prime minister.\u201d Only 35 percent say that he is. The protests appear to be clearly to blame: only 16 percent said that Trudeau\u2019s handling of the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d made them want to vote for him, compared to 63 percent actively discouraged to do so by the handling of the situation.&nbsp;A majority, 53 percent, believe that Trudeau has not acted in a way befitting a prime minister in the face of the protests.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The numbers are not an indication of any widespread support for the protests. On the contrary, the respondents\u2019 distaste for Trudeau appears to be coming from disagreement with the protests and a sense that the protesters are winning while Trudeau fails to act, making him appear \u201cweak.\u201d In a separate poll published Saturday,&nbsp;56 percent said they did not support the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d \u201cin any way, shape or form.\u201d A higher number, 64 percent, <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5a17333eb0786935ac112523\/t\/6207d249dc6a8e15bef8493b\/1644679754000\/Trucks+and+consequences+release+12+02+22.pdf\">said<\/a> they considered the protesters a threat to democracy; the same number \u201csupport using the Canadian Armed Forces\u201d to clear out the trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Yet over half in the Monday survey, 53 percent of respondents, said that Trudeau looked weak when facing the \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d compared to 17 percent who said yes when asked if he looked \u201cstrong\u201d in his attempts to stop the protests. Another 44 percent said that they believed Trudeau had personally worsened the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Both polls were conducted from February 9 to 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maher to Trudeau: &#8220;\u2026you do sound like Hitler.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yk8qU3EoiK\">https:\/\/t.co\/yk8qU3EoiK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1492514254687293440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another recent poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/abacusdata.ca\/ottawa-survey-freedom-convoy\/\">published<\/a> by Abacus Data and spark*advocacy on February 8, found that Ottawa residents, in particular, appear to blame Trudeau more than any other local leader. More than half of respondents, 56 percent, rated Trudeau\u2019s handling of the protests as \u201cpoor\u201d or \u201cvery poor,\u201d more than Mayor Jim Watson, Premier Doug Ford, the police, or the city council. That number among the majority in the capital who said they opposed the protests, 54 percent said Trudeau was handling the protests \u201cpoorly\u201d or \u201cvery poorly;\u201d that number rose to 64 percent among those who support the protesters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly half, 49 percent, of all respondents said Trudeau should meet the protesters. The vast majority, 88 percent, who support the protests said the same. Trudeau has adamantly ruled out doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The Maru poll found limited national support for the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d but more than the support Abacus Data found in Ottawa, where the largest iteration of the trucker protests has currently parked itself. This disapproval makes Trudeau\u2019s lamentable support an even bigger political problem, particularly in light of the growing public condemnation of Trudeau from the left.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19875114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238474597.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19875114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238474597-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Trucks approach the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ontario on February 14, 2022. The border crossing reopened to traffic last night-the bridge was closed for almost a week after Anti-Vaccine Mandate \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protestors blocked the road. (GEOFF ROBINS\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trudeau faced widespread criticism from all sides of the debate for his abrupt disappearance at the beginning of the convoy, which he blamed on a positive test for Chinese coronavirus. Trudeau hid in an \u201cundisclosed location\u201d for a week due to his medical condition, but took time out of his quarantine to issue a public statement confirming he will never meet with the protesters for any reason and calling them \u201cconspiracy theorists.\u201d<\/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,\u201d Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/31\/justin-trudeau-on-dodging-tinfoil-hat-truckers-i-talk-to-protesters-i-agree-with-like-blm\/\">said<\/a> from the undisclosed location in late January, \u201conline conspiracy theorists, about microchips, about God knows what else that go with tinfoil hats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau had previously described people who did not choose to ingest a Chinese coronavirus vaccine product as \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cmisogynist,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>When he finally returned to Parliament last week, he was met by multiple successive days of jeering drowning out his remarks during question time. Asked to repudiate his divisive language about the protesters, Trudeau equated them with Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are,\u201d Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-belittles-freedom-convoy-a-few-people-shouting-and-waving-swastikas\/\">asserted<\/a>, refusing to address any concerns about open-ended civil rights curbs nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau faced nearly incessant heckling on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/09\/let-him-answer-hes-not-good-at-it-heckling-silences-justin-trudeau-in-canadian-parliament\/\">Tuesday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/10\/watch-justin-trudeau-under-fire-faces-second-day-of-insults-heckles-in-canadian-parliament\/\">Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">ParlVU<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Complaints expanded to those on the left, who asked him to answer for his \u201cstigmatizing and divisive approach\u201d to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most aggressive opposition Trudeau is facing from the left did not come from those concerns about his intransigent language, however, but from communist New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh, the primary promoter of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/09\/left-blames-trump-americans-for-canadas-freedom-convoy\/\">conspiracy theory<\/a> that former American President Donald Trump, lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and the American \u201calt-right\u201d are behind the Canadian protests. Singh has used his remarks in Parliament to demand Trudeau act to cut alleged foreign aid and unveil the true puppetmasters behind the protests, not to ask for unity and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is completely inexcusable,\u201d Singh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/11\/leftist-party-leader-jagmeet-singh-trudeau-performance-completely-inexcusable\/\">said<\/a> of Trudeau\u2019s performance in a social media video last week. \u201cI have no idea how the prime minister of this country can sit back and let this happen. The prime minister of a G7 nation can\u2019t solve this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are fed up and we need to immediately seek leadership to fix this, to solve this, to protect people,\u201d Singh asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Singh\u2019s message appears to have resonated \u2013 67 percent of respondents in the Maru poll that found widespread disapproval of Trudeau said they believed the protesters \u201care being heavily funded and supported by foreign interests.\u201d<\/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=1644678241685000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3AdAAN4PBHBI_nF7GTL2PF\">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=1644678241685000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19BVEj8t7I0f4HxW4WTcZW\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a popularity collapse, several polls published this weekend found, in the aftermath of his handling of the ongoing \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d anti-mandate protests &#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-1296104","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\/1296104","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=1296104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296104\/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=1296104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}