Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic called Canada’s treatment of protesters “a dictatorship of the worst kind”
A member of the European Parliament called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “dictator” to his face during Trudeau’s trip to Belgium this week and accused the Canadian government of violating human rights.
After discussing on the floor of the European Parliament the importance of defending human rights, Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic said, “Unfortunately today, there are those among us who trample on these fundamental values.”
“Canada, once a symbol of the modern world, has become a symbol of civil rights violations under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months,” the MEP said to Trudeau, before referencing Canada’s authoritarian treatment of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters in Ottawa last month.
PM Trudeau, in recent months, under your quasi-liberal boot, Canada 🇨🇦 has become a symbol of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many citizens around the🌎it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind. pic.twitter.com/FZuc6aDZ1I
— Mislav Kolakusic MEP 🇭🇷🇪🇺 (@mislavkolakusic) March 23, 2022
“We watched how you trample women with horses,” said Kolakusic. “How you block the bank accounts of single parents so that they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine… utilities, mortgages for their homes.”
To you, these may be liberal methods. For many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind
