Race plays a role in vaccination. Black and Indigenous Canadians are only around 50% vaccinated. Indian/Punjabis are somewhere around 70%. An awful lot of truckers are Indian. Especially from Quebec.
One of the original key issues that sparked this protest is the action by Trudeau to ban unvaccinated truckers and put them out of a job. This disproportionately harmed racial minorities including Indians.
The comparison or hypocrisy is that he supported the indian farmers but called the punjabi truckers a bunch of racists. It blows my mind.
Canadian truckers were > 90% vaccinated at the time of the "Trucker" Tantrum. There were very few Southeast Asians in evidence among the tantrum throwers.
They were majority white (mostly because the Southeast Asian truckers in Canada are mostly vaccinated and were quite busy because the people throwing the tantrum weren’t actually working because they refused to get vaccinated).
I really don’t see how you could reasonably read that as a statement of support.
Why not similarly back the democratic legal processes?
Or are Canada's laws more sacred than India's laws?
Why not supoort peaceful protests in Canada?
Trudeau backed the farmer's protest in India. Those protests were much more deadly.
https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/when-the-...
Trudeau on protests in India:
> “I would be remiss if I didn’t start by recognising the news coming from India about the protest by farmers. The situation is concerning. We are all very worried about family and friends. We know that’s a reality for many of you. Let me remind you, Canada will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protesters. We believe in the process of dialogue. We’ve reached out through multiple means to the Indian authorities to highlight our concerns. This is a moment for all of us to pull together,” Trudeau had said in November 2021.
Those were in fact not peaceful
> 1 journalist killed. One person lynched for alleged desecration. Over 1,500 telecom tower sites damaged by protestors (as of 28 Dec). Government buses and 30 police vehicles damaged on Republic Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_Indian_farmers%27_pr...