A British parliamentarian slammed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government for violating the civil liberties of Canadians during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tory MP Danny Kruger made the comments during a debate in Westminster Hall on Covid-19 vaccine safety on Oct. 24.
Kruger described Canada as being among “the worst offenders” alongside communist China when it came to violating rights.
“Although many questions about our covid response need to be answered, the UK is by no means the worst offender,” said Kruger
“We are not Canada, New Zealand or China—places where Governments think they can exterminate covid by depriving their population of the most basic civil liberties.”
As exclusively reported by True North at the height of the pandemic, data released by the University of Oxford’s COVID-19 Government Response Tracker showed that Canada had some of the most stringent lockdown policies.
Covid-19 measures implemented in Canada earned the country a stringency score of 75.46, only slightly behind China which had a score of 78.24. Scores took into account a range of variables including school closures, gathering limits and more.
This is not the first time that the Liberal government has received criticism for heavy-handed crackdowns on civil liberties by a UK politician.
When Trudeau decided to resort to using the Emergencies Act for the first time ever to crackdown on peaceful Freedom Convoy protestors, UK MP Marcus Fysh accused him of resorting to “authoritarian measures.”
“I am writing today to the Foreign Secretary to ask her what the UK is doing to discourage Canada from arbitrary & authoritarian measures against Canadian residents & their rights. We should do what we can to help our good friends there find a better way,” tweeted Fysh in February.
While on a diplomatic visit to the UK in March, the prime minister was also met by freedom protestors outside of 10 Downing Street demonstrating against his presence.
