Video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dancing at a Taylor Swift live performance amid a harmful protest in Montreal drew outrage over the weekend.
Trudeau, who represents a district in Montreal, had attended the Taylor Swift live performance in Toronto on Friday evening. A viral video posted on X exhibits the Canadian politician dancing and singing alongside to the track “You Do not Personal Me” earlier than Swift took the stage.
Toronto is roughly 280 miles west of the Canadian capital of Ottowa and 330 miles west of the Montreal district that Trudeau represents.
Throughout the identical evening, anti-NATO demonstrators set off smoke bombs and marched via the streets of Montreal with Palestinian flags. In response to the Montreal Gazette, the rioters set vehicles on fireplace and clashed with police.
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Protesters additionally threw small explosive units and metallic gadgets at officers. At one level, the group burned an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The picture of Trudeau dancing amid protests in his hometown sparked outrage on-line. Some social media customers even in contrast Trudeau to Nero, the notorious Roman emperor identified for “fiddling whereas Rome burned.”
Don Stewart, a Member of Parliament (MP) representing a part of Toronto, known as out the prime minister in a put up on X.
Video of Justin Trudeau dancing at a Taylor Swift live performance amid a harmful protest in his metropolis sparked criticism over the weekend. (Getty Pictures / Reuters)
“Lawless protesters run roughshod over Montreal in violent protest. The Prime Minister dances,” Stewart wrote. “That is the Canada constructed by the Liberal authorities.”
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“Convey again regulation and order, secure streets and communities within the Canada we as soon as knew and cherished,” the MP added.
On Saturday, Trudeau denounced the protests and known as them “appalling.”
Protesters set off smoke bombs on the Montreal anti-NATO demonstration. (Reuters)
“What we noticed on the streets of Montreal final evening was appalling,” the Canadian chief mentioned. “Acts of antisemitism, intimidation, and violence have to be condemned wherever we see them.”
“The RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] are in communication with native police. There have to be penalties, and rioters held accountable.”
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Demonstrators reportedly hurled metallic objects at police and set automobiles on fireplace. (Reuters)
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Trudeau’s workplace for remark.
