Canada election: Trudeau addresses incident where protesters threw gravel at him

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the nature or extent of the challenges will not matter in fulfilling the promises made to the people.He noted that development activities continue in the country while taking necessary steps to control the COVID-19 pandemic.The President also pointed out that the economy, which had been collapsed for nearly two years, is gradually recovering.The President made these remarks participating in the first round of discussions in a series of sessions with professionals representing various fields, held at the President’s House on Friday (11).The professionals who participated in the discussion said that they are further committed to make the national programme a success by giving the necessary strength to achieve the goals desired by the President, said a statement.The professionals vehemently rejected the allegations spread by some sections with the objective of achieving narrow political agendas, the statement added.Experts in the field said that the new approach to agriculture initiated by the President is being continuously supported by the researchers and entrepreneurs who are engaged full time in these fields, further noted the statement.Representatives from a wide range of fields, including education, policy, sociology, agriculture, research, water and renewable energy, medical, engineering and innovation, were present at the discussion with the President.Ministers, State Ministers, Members of Parliament, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Secretary to the President, the Principal Advisor to the President and many others were also present.

hit the polls in an historic election taking place amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Still undecided about which federal party for whom you should cast your vote? Here’s everything you need to know before the 2021 federal election on Sept. 20.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau formally launched his campaign on Aug.

Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau is calling Alberta’s COVID-19 crisis ‘heartbreaking.’ Abigail Bimman explains how Trudeau took swipes at Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole over the situation.

campaign event of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.While the words may be the same, experts say the anger expressed at some Liberal rallies is not necessarily directly influenced by events in the U.S., but reflect a simmering resentment that has existed even before Trump.Carleton University political science professor Jonathan Malloy said that anger with institutions and “elites” was evident before Trump’s election victory, such as the vote to approve Brexit in the U.K. in June 2016.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first Indigenous justice minister and attorney general, has released her tell-all book “Indian in the Cabinet” just days before the election. She recounts how she faced discrimination in her political career, and her conversations with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Justin Trudeau is standing behind comments he made to a protestor who directed a misogynistic slur at Trudeau’s wife, saying “he went after my family.”As Trudeau prepared to sit down with Global BC’s Neetu Garcha outside the broadcaster’s Burnaby, B.C., station, protesters blasted music and hurled obscenities across the parking lot. The situation grew heated when a protester hollered at the Liberal leader about his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.

Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau responded to questions on Tuesday regarding his comments toward a heckler suggesting he go protest at a hospital, telling reporters the heckler “said hateful, misogynistic” comments about his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. “I signed up for this.

Justin Trudeau on Monday appeared to taunt angry protesters who attempted to drown out a planned interview in British Columbia, by asking them if there was “a hospital you should be going to bother right now?”Trudeau was preparing to sit down with Global BC’s Neetu Garcha outside the broadcaster’s Burnaby, B.C., station as he continues his election campaign, but protesters blared loud music and shouted obscenities from across the parking lot.At one point, while the song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” played through loudspeakers on a cart, one protester called Trudeau a communist and made derogatory comments about Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.“Isn’t there a hospital you should be going to bother right now?” Trudeau responded, pulling

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Monday appeared to take aim at protests set to take place at hospitals across Canada against COVID-19 restrictions, saying if re-elected the party would make it a criminal offence to obstruct access to various health-care buildings such as hospitals, vaccine clinics and abortion clinics. He also said they would make it a crime to intimidate or threaten health-care workers or people seeking health-care treatments.

Global’s Neetu Garcha speaks one-on-one with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau ahead of the Sept. 20 federal election.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau told off a protester on Monday ahead of an interview with Global BC, when the person began to shout various expletives and other words, prompting Trudeau to ask “isn’t there a hospital you should be going to bother?” The comment appeared in reference to protests taking place outside hospitals in opposition to COVID-19 measures.

Justin Trudeau says he hasn’t “ruled out” federal intervention to challenge Bill 21 in court.The contentious bill, also known as Quebec’s ‘secularism bill,’ is legislation across the province that prohibits public service workers including teachers, lawyers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols while on the job.Critics have argued that it disproportionately targets Muslim women who wear the hijab or niqab and effectively treats them and other religious minorities as second-class citizens.

In the final stretch of the federal election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is trying to win over progressive voters from his opponents. Abigail Bimman reports on Trudeau’s latest messages on gun control, the climate, child care and Indigenous rights.

On the campaign trail, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is facing questions about his former justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould. As Abigail Bimman explains, an excerpt from Wilson-Raybould’s soon-to-be-published book contains some damning allegations.

Howard Anglin was Senior Advisor, Legal Affairs and Policy, and deputy chief of staff to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He is a postgraduate researcher in constitutional law at Oxford University.Only the most fanatical Justin Trudeau partisans will begrudge Jody Wilson-Raybould for her moment of revenge.Reading the first excerpt of her book, I did find myself occasionally cocking an eyebrow at the portrayal of a wide-eyed innocent who somehow awoke to find herself in a den of partisan thieves.

On Saturday, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau faced questions regarding former cabinet member Jody Wilson-Raybould’s description of him in her new book, wherein she claimed he asked her to lie amid what she called a pressure campaign to interfere in a criminal prosecution during the SNC Lavalin scandal. Trudeau denied this while speaking with reporters Saturday.

Justin Trudeau said he would “never” ask Jody Wilson-Raybould to lie, after an explosive book excerpt from the former Liberal cabinet minister alleged he wanted her to do just that.In the book, Wilson-Raybould describes conversations she had with Trudeau about what would later become publicly known as the SNC-Lavalin affair. Timeline: What’s happened so far in the SNC-Lavalin affair The excerpt from her soon-to-be-published book, ‘Indian’ in the Cabinet, was published as an op-ed in The Globe and Mail.Wilson-Raybould said that during those conversations, Trudeau was pushing her to lie about how his team had handled the situation.“I knew what he was really asking.

COVID-19 pandemic, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is standing firmly behind his decision.Speaking to reporters during a Friday press conference, Trudeau was asked if he has any regrets about triggering the election and sending Canadians to the polls.“No.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh debated the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) on Thursday, with Singh criticizing Trudeau for not having acted on the “calls for justice.” In the meantime, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul said the debate was a reason for having more diversity in politics.

During the English-language federal leaders’ debate on Thursday night, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau exchanged criticism over the parties’ climate action targets, with Singh saying that the government under Trudeau has had the “worst track record in all the G7.”

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole claimed Thursday that people were worried the Liberals would tax primary home sales if the party is elected, a claim that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau repeatedly said was untrue.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau defended his government’s handling of China and the detainment of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor when challenged by Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, saying “you can’t be lobbing tomatoes across the Pacific.” Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet also challenged Trudeau, saying while people can’t be “throwing tomatoes” as a solution, he said the Liberal leader’s record on human rights is “not perfect.”

election — and their feet were held to the fire throughout the rest of the night.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul each faced questions on their leadership qualities and shortcomings from moderator Shachi Kurl at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.As the topics moved into climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, affordability and the COVID-19 pandemic, all five leaders defended their records and plans. But Trudeau, who is seeking a third term as prime minister, faced the harshest scrutiny.

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul slammed Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau over his claims of being a feminist on Thursday during the English-language leaders’ debate as he defended his government’s handling of the military sexual misconduct crisis, saying she does “not believe that Mr.

Quebec Premier François Legault was riled up after Wednesday night’s French-language debate. Speaking to reporters at the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) pre-session caucus in Quebec City, the premier bemoaned that none of the federal party leaders are willing to increase health transfers to the level provinces are asking for.He was particularly critical of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and accused him of meddling in provincial jurisdiction.Legault said the Trudeau government frustratingly withheld needed funds for Quebec housing.“It took four years!” Legault exclaimed.“Mr.

Federal leaders trade barbs on COVID-19, Indigenous rights in French election debate Ipsos’ Political Atlas tracker measures sentiment and volume on Twitter and can act as a “leading indicator” of both how leaders perform as well as their overall reach into the social media universe.The volume of Twitter traffic about the leaders favoured Trudeau going in, as he attracted slightly more mentions on the social media platform than did his opponents, but not by much.

election night.Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, Erin O’Toole, Yves-Francois Blanchet and Annamie Paul duked it out on topics including climate, Indigenous Peoples and cultural identity, cost of living and public finances, justice and foreign policy, and health care and the COVID-19 pandemic.Here’s a list of highlights that you may have missed during the debate.

COVID-19 pandemic sparked fiery exchanges among the federal party leaders in the Canadian election‘s French language debate.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul faced off in the debate from the Museum of Canadian History in Gatineau, Que., just across the river from Parliament Hill on Wednesday.The first question of the night — whether any of the leaders would commit to not calling another snap election if they won a minority government — saw all of the leaders commit to a full mandate except for Trudeau, who did not directly answer the question.“You will hear different ideas tonight about how we move

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is denouncing the demonstrators who pelted him and others with small rocks as he left Monday’s campaign event in London, Ontario. Abigail Bimman explains who these protesters are, and how they’re tracking Trudeau’s stops.

Justin Trudeau was pelted with gravel while at a campaign stop in London, Ont. The attack came on the heels of some fiery protests throughout the Canadian election campaign where Trudeau had been assailed by angry anti-vax protesters.To at least one expert, the violence on display towards Trudeau is relatively unsurprising given some of the rhetoric online and at his protests.“I think there’s increasing concern that this violence is becoming organized, that there are far-right movements that are intersecting with the anti-vax movements,” said Stephanie Carvin, an assistant professor and national security expert at Ottawa’s Carleton University.

Justin Trudeau as well as accompanying journalists during a campaign event on Monday.In a statement to Global News, local police confirmed the probe into the incident, which Trudeau and other federal party leaders on Tuesday condemned as “unacceptable.” Trudeau says he was hit by gravel, condemns rock throwing as ‘unacceptable’ “London Police are aware of an incident which occurred on September 6 during a visit to London by Prime Minister Trudeau as well as other elected officials, in which rocks were thrown, striking some participants.

Justin Trudeau reaffirmed Tuesday that “anti-vaxxer mobs” won’t stop him from in-person campaigning this election.While at a campaign stop in Montreal, Trudeau spoke out against people who have hurled obscenities towards him throughout the election, with the latest incident happening Monday in southern Ontario.“Nobody should be doing their jobs under the threats of violence or acts to put them in danger.

Campaigning in Montreal on Tuesday, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau blasted Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole about his promise to get 90 per cent of Canadians vaccinated against COVID-19.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau “might have been” hit by gravel thrown at him by anti-vaccine protesters as he got on his campaign’s bus while in London, Ont. on Monday.

Justin Trudeau says he “might have” been hit by gravel thrown by protesters at an election campaign stop in London, Ont., on Monday.Trudeau was leaving the event when he was surrounded by angry protesters, some of whom appeared to be throwing handfuls of gravel and debris at the party leader.RCMP security detail were forced to hold up their hands to try and protect Trudeau from getting hit as he got on his campaign bus. Some members of the media following the Liberal campaign were hit by the small projectiles, but were not hurt.At London rally protesters threw gravel/small rocks at Trudeau.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau responded on Monday while on his campaign’s plane to questions by journalists about stones being thrown at him by protesters while at a campaign stop in London, Ont.

Justin Trudeau thanked the few dozen Toronto General Hospital staffers for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and called the protests against proof-of-vaccination systems “horrifying.” Trudeau doubles down on gun laws, pledges tougher firearm control “I want to tell you, all of Canadians stand with you. People know how hard you work, how much you sacrifice, to do this unbelievably important work of keeping us safe,” he said.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he was not critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the two Michaels case, as Sunday marked 1,000 days of detention of the Canadian men in China.Singh made the comments during an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson on Sunday in Quebec City, Que. Families and supporters of Kovrig and Spavor mark 1,000 days in detention Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China in December 2018 in what is largely viewed as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States on fraud charges.On Aug.

election campaign goes on, a new poll suggests — but Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is still seen as the best choice for prime minister.The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found the number of people who want Trudeau for the top job is slipping, however.

An Ipsos poll executively done for Global News indicates that 34 per cent of Canadians still believe Justin Trudeau would make the best prime minister – a number which is down 5 points since the beginning of the election.

Canadian federal party leaders squared off in the first debate of this campaign cycle in Quebec on Thursday. The French-language debate featured Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, sparring over issues like COVID-19 vaccination status, health care and more.

Justin Trudeau on Thursday lamented the “frustrating” processes in place to deal with sexual misconduct cases in the Canadian military that he said prevented him and others from taking action on allegations against Gen.

Jagmeet Singh, Conservative Erin O’Toole, Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois and Liberal Justin Trudeau were on stage at TVA network in Montreal.It involved a series of face-to-face encounters between two people at a time, which led to longer and fiery exchanges. The event came midway through the campaign, as leaders hope to snap up votes before the election Sept.

Speaking to reporters and party supporters on Wednesday, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau unveiled his party’s 2021 election platform including $78 billion in new spending, more than three times the direct new revenues promised over the next five years.

federal election campaign.The French debate on TVA, one of Quebec’s most-watched networks, comes at the mid-point of the campaign and could prove crucial to the outcome on Sept. 20.Only four leaders — the Liberals’ Justin Trudeau, the Conservatives’ Erin O’Toole, the Bloc Quebecois’ Yves-Francois Blanchet and the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh — will take part.The Green party’s Annamie Paul and the Peoples’ party’s Maxime Bernier were not invited to participate.

election campaign reaches the halfway point, a new poll suggests, with the party now falling behind the Conservatives for the first time while staying in a statistical tie.The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 32 per cent of voters would cast a ballot for the Conservatives, a number unchanged from last week.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau criticized the latest group of protesters shouting expletives and other slogans as he attended a party event in Sudbury, Ont., saying they were endangering others by not getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and called on Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole to condemn them. Protesters against various issues, including vaccines and masks, have shown up at several Liberal events and even prompted the cancellation of a rally this past Friday.

Justin Trudeau is expected to release the party’s election platform at a campaign event on Wednesday morning, according to campaign sources.Trudeau is scheduled to make an announcement during a campaign stop in Toronto.That announcement is expected to focus on the details of the plan Liberals are laying out to voters, which comes amid questions over calling an election during the escalating fourth wave of COVID-19.