The Trudeau government is quick to crack down on Canadian trucker protests but supports and gives non-profit status to radical groups that sponsor hate rallies that glorify Islamic terrorists.

CBC  Political leaders are condemning what they describe as “hateful rhetoric” from a speaker at a pro-Palestinian rally in Vancouver who told the crowd that “we are Hezbollah and we are Hamas.” Both groups are listed by Public Safety Canada as terrorist entities.

In videos circulated online, an unidentified masked woman led a crowd of hundreds at the Vancouver Art Gallery Monday night in chants of “death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel,” while some in the group burned Canadian flags.

The protest was organized by the pro-Hamas group Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and held on the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

“While Jewish Canadians live in fear, terror groups like Samidoun are free to fundraise and support organizations like Hamas and the [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] who seek to kill innocent Jews,” federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a statement. “We’ve seen what happens when these groups aren’t taken seriously.”

File under cowards, who play politics for votes.

Samidoun is a front for an already banned terrorist group in this country —they should have the courage to ban them today.

They took 6 years to ban the IRGC.
They are radicals. pic.twitter.com/tbcHFStYnE

— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) October 8, 2024

In a statement, the Vancouver Police Department said it is looking into whether actions at the protest represent criminal offences. Police say they heard from community members and others who were “deeply offended” by acts at the rally.

They had told CBC News in a Tuesday morning email that there were no major public safety incidents and no arrests made.

Samidoun director Charlotte Kates was arrested by Vancouver police last year in a hate-crime investigation, then released on an undertaking to appear in court on Tuesday, but no appearance has been scheduled.  Kates was arrested after praising the Oct. 7 attack as “heroic and brave” in a speech at a rally.

A video of Vancouver protesters burning a Canadian flag added to tensions on Parliament Hill as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blamed the government for a rise in antisemitism and was silenced in the House for accusing Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly of pandering to Hamas supporters.