We’ve got been discussing the speedy decline of free speech protections in Canada underneath Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A vivid instance of the growing authoritarian method was evident this week with the arrest of David Menzies, a reporter for Canada’s conservative Insurgent Information Community. Menzies was making an attempt to interview Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland when her safety clearly manufactured a felony cost in entrance of cameras.
Menzies was making an attempt to ask Freeland about Canada’s refusal to label Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) as a terrorist group. Freeland continues to stroll as Menzies makes an attempt get a solution by strolling backwards. As he stays with Freeland, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stands in his manner and the result’s a slight bump. The officer then instantly carries out an arrest with an eventual cost that Menzies assaulted him.
Trudeau has had an extended operating feud with Insurgent Information. Final week, we mentioned the irony of how a Russian dissident was denied Canadian citizenship because of a conviction in Russian for talking in opposition to the Ukrainian warfare (from Canada). Since Canada has the identical criminalization of speech legal guidelines, Maria Kartasheva was pulled from her ceremony pending additional investigation into whether or not she is a felony practitioner of free speech.
The arrest of Menzies raises the identical comparability to the method of governments like Putin’s to critics. Notice within the video beneath how the officer positions himself instantly within the path of Menzies as he walks again along with his again to the officer.
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