Canada’s Trudeau pledges to crack down on hospital protests

Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau slams recent ‘anti-vaxxer gatherings’ outside Canadian health facilities.

Justin Trudeau has promised that if re-elected his party would crack down on protests outside healthcare facilities, as demonstrations denouncing coronavirus-related public health measures have taken place outside hospitals in recent weeks. Trudeau, whose Liberal Party is currently in a tight federal election race with the Conservatives, said on Monday that the Liberals would make it an offence to obstruct access to any building providing health services, such as hospitals, testing centres, pharmacies and abortion clinics. The party would also make it an offence to intimidate or threaten any healthcare worker doing their job and any patient receiving care.