'I'm proud of the truckers,' says Conservative Poilievre in lambasting PM Trudeau's response to protests

Pierre Poilievre (via Facebook)

 'I'm proud of the truckers,' says Conservative Pierre Poilievre in lambasting Canadian Prime Minister  Justin Trudeau's response to protests.

Poilievre also blames PM Trudeau for the situation, which is paralyzing critical infrastructure at the Canadian border. PM Candidate Pierre in his speech said:

“I’m proud of the truckers and I stand with them,” Poilievre said in an interview recorded on Thursday for next week’s episode of the Postmedia podcast Full Comment with Anthony Furey.

“They have reached a breaking point after two years of massive government overreach of a prime minister who insults and degrades anyone who disagrees with his heavy-handed approach.

“But let’s be honest, if Canadians are being inconvenienced, or in any way suffering from these protests, it is because Justin Trudeau made these protests happen and his intransigence is keeping the protests going,” he added.

Poilievre said it looks to him like Trudeau put a vaccine mandate on truckers “as a vindictive wedge strategy to divide Canadians and demonize an apparently unpopular minority of unvaccinated people to his own political advantage.”

“But now it’s blown up in his face,” said Poilievre.

“So he’s gotten himself into an impossible political situation. And unfortunately, the rest of the country is held hostage by his unwillingness to do the right thing, admit he was wrong, and lift these mandates.”

Earlier, Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has also launched his bid to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, with other members of Parliament already pledging their support. He is the first candidate to announce his intention to run for the conservative party’s top spot after MPs forced Erin O’Toole out of the position only three days earlier.

In a 3-minute video released on social media on Saturday night, Pierre criticizes gov. spending and says he wants to make “Canadians the freest people on earth.” In his announcement, he was saying that he wants the job as prime minister. Many Conservative leaders including Ontario MP Melissa Lantsman, Manitoba MP James Bezan, and many more supported Pierre Poilievre as a conservative candidate.