MONTREAL — Anti-NATO protesters gathered again in Montreal on Saturday to demand Canada withdraw from the alliance, a day after a demonstration organized by different groups resulted in arrests, burned cars and shattered windows.
Politicians in the prime minister's cabinet, opposition parties as well as Quebec leaders have called the violence during Friday's anti-NATO demonstration acts of antisemitism, but protesters deny the claim, saying they demonstrated against the"complicity" of NATO member countries in a war that has killed thousands of Palestinians.
Friday's protest was organized by the groups Divest for Palestine and the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on X accused the prime minister of being “too busy to condemn a violent Hamas takeover of our streets.” He then followed up with a lengthy statement saying Trudeau has transformed Canada into “a playground for foreign interference.”
"Those behaviours are unacceptable and we can condemn them, and in particular the hatred and antisemitism that was on display, in the strongest possible terms," said Blair.“Burning cars and smashing windows is not about sending a message, it's about causing chaos. Such acts have no place in a peaceful society like Quebec,” he wrote.
About 80 people attended Saturday's anti-NATO protest in downtown Montreal organized by Le Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix, holding signs that read"Canada out of NATO" and chanting"solidarity with Palestine." Several in attendance held Communist Party of Canada flags while others held Palestinian flags.
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