Thomas’ words reflected Europeans’ opinions of Trudeau

By Lethbridge Herald on May 5, 2022.

Editor:

The front page story of a backlash over Lethbridge MP Thomas’ comments about PM Trudeau is at best an unpaid ad for the NDP/Liberal organizations. It left a number of facts unreported.

Al Beeber wrote that Thomas posted a tweet by Mislav Kolakusic, Croatian member of the European Parliament and former judge that stated “PM Trudeau in recent months under your quasi-Liberal boot, Canada has become a symbol of civil rights violations, the methods we witnessed may be liberal to you but to many citizens around the world it seemed like dictatorship of the worst kind.”

These words were actually addressed to PM Trudeau following his March 23 speech when he sounded off on purported threats to democracy by freedom protesters. 

Mr. Kolakusic went on to chastise PM Trudeau for the militarized crackdown on Ottawa protesters who had their bank accounts seized without cost order.

Romanian member of the European Parliament Christine Terles said “PM Trudeau is exactly like a tyrant, a dictator. He’s Ceausescu in Romania.” German member of the European Parliament Christine Andersen after calling out Trudeau said “you are a disgrace for any democracy. Please spare us your presence.”

Those remarks were widely reported in world newspapers around the world, even in Australia, but I have yet to see this reported by the Lethbridge Herald.

 It appears as though our Prime Minister was not well received at the European Parliament in Belgium. 

Out of the 700-member Parliament only 200 were present for PM Trudeau’s speech. I believe that Shannon Phillips, Chris Spearman and Devon Hargreaves owe MP Thomas an apology.

It is our prime minister who is an embarrassment to Canada. Rachael Thomas’ words were merely a reflection of what her European counterparts think of our prime minister.

I am a fan of Al Beeber’s reporting and look forward to reading his articles but was disappointed that he felt that the attack ons our MP Harder by three prominent but obviously poorly informed citizens should be front page news in our fine local newspaper.

Eric Weigelt

Lethbridge