Covid-Stricken Trudeau Uses Trucker Protest to Attack Tory Rival
- PM slams abusive behavior and criticizes O’Toole as complicit
- Though crowds have thinned, Ottawa’s core remains paralyzed
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Justin Trudeau denounced abusive behavior and racist imagery at a protest against vaccine mandates that saw lines of big-rig trucks blockade the downtown core of Canada’s capital.
The Liberal prime minister, speaking Monday from an Ottawa-area cottage where he is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, also used weekend antics by members of the protest convoy to criticize his political opponents. His Conservative rival shot back, accusing Trudeau of stoking division.