While spending his vacation skiing in British Columbia, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was attacked by a woman who publicly insulted him, after shaking his hand.
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Mr. Trudeau, wearing a helmet, was in the parking lot of a ski center, the Red Mountain Resort in Rossland, when a lady called out to him, then addressed him.
The lady: “Mr. prime minister?
Mr. Trudeau: “Yes”
La dame : «Please get the f**k out of B.C. (SVP, foutez le camp de la C.B.)»
Mr. Trudeau (nervous laughter): “Have a wonderful day, ma’am”
The lady: “You s*ck (you suck)”.
The video, which has been online since Friday, has been shared thousands of times on X and Instagram.
Called to comment on the embarrassing situation, the Prime Minister’s office did not respond to messages from Journal for now.
Organized event?
According to the Toronto Sun , who first reported the story, it was an organized protest event. It is therefore no coincidence that this lady came across Justin Trudeau; she knew he was going to ski at this complex, maintains the daily newspaper of the Queen City.
The veteran journalist Toronto SunJoe Warmington, also shared a publication on X maintaining that it was activist Emily Duggan who confronted the Prime Minister.
Difficult times
It’s a difficult end to the year for Justin Trudeau, as negative news and rumors about his political future multiply.
On Friday, Gérald Butts, a former senior advisor to Mr. Trudeau, said he believed it was unlikely to see the Prime Minister lead the Liberals in the next election campaign in 2025.
A few hours before the presentation of the economic update, on December 16, .
The next day, the Prime Minister’s office informed the media that Mr. Trudeau was canceling his end-of-year 2024 review interviews, on the sidelines of a worsening crisis within the Liberal party.
The leader of the Bloc Québécois, Yves-François Blanchet, indicated on Saturday that he would support the motion of censure from the Conservative Party of Canada to overthrow the Trudeau government at the end of January, under certain conditions. In an interview with the Journal, the NDP said it adopted the same position.
All this at a time when, in addition, the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, likes to dream of Canada as a 51st American state of which Justin Trudeau would be… “the governor”.
