Right-wing American thinking has infiltrated Canadian politics and caused the Conservative Party to \u2018turn their backs\u2019 on Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.<\/p>\n
Trudeau called out the Conservative Party after the group unanimously voted against an update to the Canada Ukraine Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve actually boasted . . . that it\u2019s not a political debate in Canada, all parties in Canada stand with Ukraine,\u2019 Trudeau said at a press conference Friday. \u2018So it is particularly troubling to see \u2014 even though we are seeing a rise of right-wing rhetoric in the United States with MAGA conservatives, across Europe, in certain corners of right-wing politicians and parties \u2014 starting to pull their support for Ukraine. Starting to parrot Russian disinformation and misinformation and propaganda.\u2019<\/p>\n
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre earlier Friday said his party had voted against the agreement not because of flagging support for Ukraine, but out of concern it would saddle the war-torn country with a carbon tax.<\/p>\n
Trudeau said that explanation was \u2018an absurd excuse.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018The real story is the rise of a right-wing, American MAGA-influenced thinking that has made Canadian Conservatives \u2014 who used to be among the strongest defenders of Ukraine, I\u2019ll admit it \u2014 turn their backs on something Ukraine needs in its hour of need,\u2019 Trudeau said.<\/p>\n
\u2018That is the danger of the rise of the right-wing influence that is feeling its impact in Canada. That\u2019s what not just Ukrainian Canadians but all Canadians should be concerned about. When the Conservative Party of Canada and Pierre Poilievre turn their backs on history, turn their backs on our friends and allies, turn their backs on the international rules-based order and our support for the UN Charter and territorial Integrity, it is of real concern and should be of concern to all of us, because we\u2019re seeing that spiking up all around the world,\u2019 Trudeau said.<\/p>\n
Earlier Friday, Poilievre said that his party was only voting against the agreement because conservatives understood how disastrous carbon taxes can be.<\/p>\n
\u2018We voted against Justin Trudeau forcing a carbon tax into that pre-existing agreement. Conservatives understand how devastating the carbon tax has been for Canadians,\u2019 Poilievre said. \u2018It\u2019s caused two million people to go to a food bank every single month, seven million Canadians not eating enough to stay healthy.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018I really think it speaks to how pathologically obsessed\u00a0Trudeau is with the carbon tax that, while the knife is at the throat of Ukrainians, he would use that to impose his carbon tax ideology on those poor people,\u2019 Poilievre said, according to CBC News.<\/p>\n
The trade agreement includes a section committing both parties to coordinate \u2018bilaterally and in international forums to address matters of mutual interest, as appropriate, to . . . promote carbon pricing and measures to mitigate carbon leakage risks.\u2019<\/p>\n
Ukraine has had a carbon tax since 2011, and it is in the process of modifying the tax as it seeks to gain membership in the EU.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time Trudeau has blamed American politics for pushback to liberal policies in Canada.<\/p>\n
In July, Trudeau said the \u2018American right-wing\u2019 was responsible for causing Canadian Muslims\u2019 to oppose gender ideology and LGBTQ curriculum in K-12 education.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trudeau made the comments during a visit with the Muslim community at the Baitun Nur Mosque in Calgary after hundreds of protesters rallied against gender ideology in schools, chanting, \u2018Leave our kids alone.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The frustration reached a boiling point after audio surfaced of an Edmonton Public Schools teacher berating Muslim students for skipping school in order to avoid Pride events.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One person in the audience asked Trudeau to \u2018please protect our culture, our belief, the sin that you are doing to them.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trudeau responded: \u2018First of all, there is an awful lot of misinformation and disinformation out there [from] people on social media, particularly fueled by the American right-wing are spreading a lot of untruths about what is actually\u2026 in the curriculum.\u2019 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Hannah Grossman contributed reporting.<\/p>\n\n
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