Liberal MP opposes Trudeau’s pandemic policy
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Summary
Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in response to anti-racism protests across the country, including one in his own home town of Ottawa, Ontario, on Nov. 22, 2019.
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When it comes to the broader demonstrations we've seen in Ottawa, in Quebec City and all
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across the country, I will abstain from the kind of generalizations that we've heard these
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last few days. I've seen on Radio Canada an interview with what seemed to be a very kind
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grandmother who demonstrated for her grandkids. She looked and sounded nothing like a white
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supremacist. Nor did the Black, Sikh and Indigenous Canadians I saw demonstrating on my way to
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Parliament these last two weeks or in Quebec City this last Saturday. I have enough respect
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for my fellow Canadians not to engage in these easy and absurd labels. Does the fact that you're
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here today holding a news conference indicate that you had no faith that expressing your
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views in caucus, sort of talking about these issues in caucus, would have little effect in
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getting the government to change course? I still am hopeful that the government will change course
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and adopt a different approach. And that's my ask today.