Chrystia Freeland proves she’s unfit to lead
At leadership launch, she plugged her ears to the rising tide of extremism
Sunday afternoon, at the St. Alban’s Boys and Girl’s Club in Toronto, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland officially announced her bid to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party. To call the event tense would be an understatement.
What was quickly made clear is that Freeland is woefully unprepared for the Canada that lies ahead of her — a Canada with an increasingly extremist anti-Israel/pro-Hamas segment who, even with a prisoner-hostage exchange occurring in Gaza as she announced her bid, were still unsatisfied with her party. A party that, frankly, did everything it could to not help Israel and appease the protesters. And now it’s clear where that’s gotten them.
The small gymnasium of the children’s community centre was divided into three groups, the total of which could not have been much more than 100, if that. Attendees included Freeland and her supporters, made up of MPs, her family, and a few friends who were situated near her podium, the media, who held up the back wall, not getting a chance to have all their questions answered, and, interspersed throughout the crowd, seemingly timed to go off at alternating intervals, anti-Israel hecklers, who were dragged out of the room after banging on the gym walls to interrupt her speech and shouting phrases such as, “genocide supporter,” “fascist,” and “free Palestine.” Freeland’s supporters attempted to drown out the protesters each time by clapping and shouting loudly, “Freeland, Freeland,” plugging their ears to the rising tide of political extremism in this country.
Someone yelled “genocide supporter” and was dragged out. pic.twitter.com/GCwWl318W6
— Terry Newman (@TLNewmanMTL) January 19, 2025
I kept scanning the room, looking for who might sound off next, and tried to keep my distance from anyone dressed like they might be a protester, worried for everyone in the room that this might escalate further. There must’ve have been close to 20 interruptions. I tried to record all of them, posting many to X, but I couldn’t keep up and lost count. It’s hard to tell from the recording of the event, but it was pure chaos.
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