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定性为反移民示威游行Anti-immigration groups at Parliament Hill protest demand apology from Trudeau
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Published on: February 18, 2018 | Last Updated: February 18, 2018 7:33 PM EST
Anti-Muslim and anti racist protestors voiced their views Sunday Feb. 18, 2018 on Parliament Hill. An anti racist protestors stands in the Centennial Flame. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia ASHLEY FRASER / POSTMEDIA
SHAREADJUSTCOMMENTvoteforright.com, members of the Asian-Canadian community feel victimized by a Toronto girl’s false claim in January that an Asian man cut off her hijab and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apparent rush to view the fictitious incident as a hate crime.
Anti-Muslim and anti racist protestors voiced their views Sunday Feb. 18, 2018 on Parliament Hill. Anti-Muslim protestors joined with a group of Chinese-Canadians who were upset about the controversial hijab news story in Toronto. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia ASHLEY FRASER /POSTMEDIA
“As the real victim of the hijab hoax, our Asian community was completely ignored by PM Trudeau,” reads a statement on the website.
- PHOTO GALLERY: PROTESTS ON PARLIAMENT HILL, SUNDAY, FEB. 18, 2018
Anti-racist counter protestors were met with a wall of RCMP officers as they tried...
An anti-racist protestor stands in the Centennial Flame. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
Stéphane Roch of La Meute (Wolf Pack) addresses the collection of Anti-Muslim...
When protesters pushed past police lines, multiple arrests were made. Ashley...
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Clashes between anti-racist protestors and the RCMP happened when...
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An anti-racist protestor stands in the Centennial Flame. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
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A man who identified himself as “Yuanyuan” said, “There are some out-of-town conservative Chinese racists and they are collaborating basically with some white nationalist groups here in Canada. As a Chinese Canadian, I’m pretty ashamed about that. That’s why I’m here.”
The large Asian group, with members coming from Toronto and Vancouver to join members of the Ottawa Chinese-Canadian community, chartered buses for the event.
Anti-Muslim and anti racist protestors voiced their views Sunday Feb. 18, 2018 on Parliament Hill. Clashes between anti racist protestors and the RCMP happened when protesters pushed past police lines, ending in multiple arrests. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia ASHLEY FRASER/ POSTMEDIA
“We want to oppose them,” Yuanyuan said. “We don’t want them on our Hill saying they get to represent Canadian values. We know that their rhetoric is basically trying to normalize violence against minorities and marginalized folk. It’s not really a discussion about whether or not multiculturalism is good or not. We know that they stand for genocide.”
About 100 anti-racist protesters — while denouncing white supremacy and chanting about how welcome Muslims are — also repeatedly screamed “f-ck the police.”
Providing security for the Asian protesters were several anti-immigration, ultranationalist groups such as Quebec’s La Meute — or Wolf pack — and the Northern Guard. Several Proud Boys — an alt-right men’s group — were also in attendance.
La Meute’s Stéphane Roch said his members — of which there are 42,000 in Quebec — were in Ottawa to support the Chinese community.
Anti-Muslim and anti racist protestors voiced their views Sunday Feb. 18, 2018 on Parliament Hill. Anti-Muslim protestors joined with a group of Chinese-Canadians who were upset about the controversial hijab news story in Toronto. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia ASHLEY FRASER /POSTMEDIA
Roch called them “real Canadians” who have been in the country for hundreds of years. “The Chinese community are a very good community. Trudeau don’t listen to them.”
“The government has to work for the citizens, not for themselves,” Roch said. “The power has to go to the citizens. They have to listen to us.”
An organizer with the Chinese-Canadian community who asked a reporter to “just call me Monica” said the event was behind schedule and chose not to speak to a reporter from this newspaper.
Anti-Muslim and anti racist protestors voiced their views Sunday Feb. 18, 2018 on Parliament Hill. L-R Sylvain Brouillette and Stephane Roch of La Meute (Wolf Pack) address the crowd of Anti-Muslim protestors Sunday afternoon. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia ASHLEY FRASER /POSTMEDIA
Several Chinese-Canadian protesters were there with their children, who held signs condemning the “hijab hoax” and “fake news.” The signs urged the government not to “stir up ethnic disputes.” Multiple people approached by a reporter indicated they did not speak English.
But speakers urged respect for “human rights” and asked that all Canadians be treated equally.
Among the sea of protesters were several placards taking aim at Trudeau, not Muslims.
Evan Balgord, a journalist and researcher who is following the rise of the new far-right movement in Canada, said that what was branded as anti-Muslim is being re-purposed as anti-Trudeau rhetoric.
“They always were anti-Trudeau, anti-Liberal government, anti-multiculturalism, anti-M-103 (a motion to condemn Islamophobia in the country) but the anti-Trudeau rhetoric is coming more and more to the front.”
Police escorted members of both groups away from the demonstration and some were banned from the Hill.
RCMP officers made a handful of arrests during the demonstration, but several of those people were released. A large group of Ottawa police escorted both groups on and off the Hill.
