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      Edited Clip From Justin Trudeau's Interview Shared With False COVID-19 Claim

      The clip has been misleadingly edited. Trudeau was answering a question about part of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not speaking about the pandemic.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  27 Dec 2021 7:11 PM IST
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      Edited Clip From Justin Trudeaus Interview Shared With False COVID-19 Claim

      Social media posts feature a clip of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking about "attacking fundamental rights," with some suggesting he was referencing his government's response to COVID-19. But the clip has been misleadingly edited, and the Liberal leader was answering a question about part of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not speaking about the pandemic.

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      "Let's not forget Canada, that moment Trudeau openly said they know they are ATTACKING your fundamental rights but they're still gonna go ahead and do it. #WakeUpCanada #covidisahoax," says text of a December 20, 2021 Facebook post that includes the video of Trudeau.

      Screenshot of a Facebook post taken on December 22, 2021

      The video has also been shared elsewhere on Facebook and on Twitter, with one user suggesting the comment was related to vaccine passports.

      But the clip shared on social media has been edited to cut out key parts of the remarks by Trudeau, who has imposed strict vaccination mandates for traveling, with most people not vaccinated against COVID-19 barred from boarding a plane or a train in Canada since November 30.

      The clip was taken from a December 16 interview with the national news agency, The Canadian Press.

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      In the full video of the year-end roundtable interview, it is clear that Trudeau was not speaking about his government's actions during the pandemic, or advocating an attack on citizens' rights. He had been asked about the "notwithstanding clause," Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

      Joanna Smith, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Canadian Press, told AFP that Trudeau was asked the following question: "Your father famously hated the notwithstanding clause, which he agreed to only as a compromise to get provinces to agree to have a Charter of Rights at all in our Constitution. Given what we're seeing now, with a lot of provinces thinking about using the notwithstanding clause, with Quebec preemptively using it on Bills 21 and 96, what's your own view of the value, or not, of the notwithstanding clause?"

      Trudeau replied: "What the notwithstanding clause does, is says: 'Regardless of the fact that we are attacking your fundamental rights or limiting your fundamental rights, and the charter says that's wrong, we're still going to go ahead and do it.' It's basically a loophole that allows a majority to override fundamental rights of a minority."

      Both his initial reference to the notwithstanding clause, and his subsequent comment saying "that's why I agree with my father that it is not a great thing to have in a Charter of Rights and Freedoms," were cut from the clip circulating on social media.

      The rarely used provision was included as a compromise by former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to secure the provinces' consent to the Charter's creation in 1982. It gives a province the ability, through the passage of a law, to override certain portions of the Charter for a five-year term.

      It surged back at the top of the national political agenda when Quebec invoked the clause to introduce a secularism law (Bill 21) prohibiting civil servants from displaying religious symbols -- which recently led to a teacher being reassigned for wearing a hijab in the classroom -- and a law (Bill 96) proposing reforms relating to the French language.

      AFP asked the prime minister's office about the interview, but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

      Also Read: No, British PM Boris Johnson Did Not Fake Getting Booster Shot

      More of AFP Fact Check's articles from Canada can be found here.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Justin Trudeau said Canada's response to COVID-19 was to attack the fundamental rights of people.
      Claimed By :  Posts on Facebook and Twitter
      Fact Check :  False
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