Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre on Feb. 24 criticized a visiting European politician, both calling her views “hateful” and “vile.”
“Consistently, we see Conservative parliamentarians and people who should know better associating themselves with folks responsible for a particularly vile level of rhetoric and hatred,” Trudeau said during a press conference in Toronto.
While in Canada this month, she met with Conservative MPs Dean Allison, Colin Carrie, and Leslyn Lewis. Anderson also met with people who took part in convoy protests against COVID-19 mandates last year.
The Epoch Times contacted Anderson and her tour organizers for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.
Poilievre also criticized Anderson and said his MPs were “not aware” of the MEP’s views and regret meeting with her.
“Christine Anderson’s views are vile and have no place in our politics,” he said in a statement provided by his spokesperson. “Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.”
The MPs who met with Anderson offered a statement saying they were “not aware of the views or associations of her and her political party.”
“We do not share or endorse her views and strongly condemn any views that are racist or hateful,” the statement said.
PPC Leader Maxime Bernier, who met with Anderson in Montreal this week, called her “legendary.”
“A Prime Minister, who openly admires the Chinese ‘basic dictatorship,’ who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists, just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy, should not be allowed to speak in this house at all,” she said.