Who is waving Swastika Flags in Canada?

Swastika, which has become a symbol of hatred all over the world, has brought a storm in Canadian politics. The Na%i flag has been used in many places in demonstrations against Canada’s vaccine mandate. The current government is calling this demonstration Anti-Canada and saying that they are doing illegal activities. The government wants to end the protest going on for the last three weeks in the name of Freedom Convoy at all costs, for this, with the declaration of emergency in the country, the truckers have been warned to freeze their corporate bank accounts.

The protests featured a range of groups comparing vaccine mandates to fascism and displaying Canadian flags, and sometimes American flags, upside down. Many protesters held signs with profanity-filled messages for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Among the symbols displayed at the protests were swastikas and, in at least one instance, the Confederate flag.

Protesters are calling the Trudeau government a fascist and a dictator, they are calling the Prime Minister’s mandatory vaccine program a dictatorial step. Protests have been taking place across the country for the last three weeks against this. The opposition party of the country is also trying to surround the government on this issue.

When the Conservative Party’s Jewish member Melissa Lantsman attacked the Trudeau government, Trudeau said that the opposition party is supporting those who are waving swastika and Confederate flags in the name of protest. There was a big controversy over this. The Lantsman replied that I am a Jew myself, the Prime Minister should apologize for his statement. After Trudeau’s statement, the Swastika trend started on Twitter.

A new low, even for Trudeau: he falsely accuses a Jewish MP and descendent of holocaust survivors of standing with people who wave swastikas. She did not.

Enough lying and dividing.

Unite Canadians for freedom. pic.twitter.com/Qnv6ak1LEa
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 16, 2022

What people saying on twitter?

This is the most shameful thing I've ever seen.

Trudeau just accused @MelissaLantsman of standing with a Swastika.

Members of the Conservative Caucus have family who died in the holocaust.

I demanded Trudeau apologize three times and he refused. Shame on him. pic.twitter.com/5TQCRQreX5
— Dane Lloyd (@DaneLloydMP) February 16, 2022

It is fact that some Conservative MPs were at a protest where swastikas were quite visible. And that, at that time, the Conservatives supported the protests.

People may dislike what the PM said, but they should react to what he actually said, not how it is being spun.
— Bruce Anderson (@bruceanderson) February 16, 2022

Prime Minister Trudeau just accused my good friend @MelissaLantsman, a Jewish MP, of “standing with people who wave swastikas.”

The Prime Minister should lead by reducing tensions at this time. Instead he has decided to divide, defame and inflame. https://t.co/nqscCSUaVE
— Jason Kenney 🇺🇦 (@jkenney) February 16, 2022

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Pallav Jain

Pallav Jain is co-founder of Ground Report and an independent journalist and visual storyteller based in Madhya Pradesh. He did his PG Diploma in Radio and TV journalism from IIMC 2015-16.

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