Lawyer probing Trudeau’s hateful rhetoric that vilified unvaccinated Canadians
Daniel Freiheit seeks accountability for Trudeau’s tirade and subsequent policies that divided the nation while the former prime minister postured on vaccine politics.
In 2021, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau’s divisive rhetoric branded unvaccinated Canadians as extremists, questioning whether society should “tolerate” them. These calculated words, amplified by policies like travel bans and the ArriveCAN app, segregated millions, cost livelihoods, and fractured families. Now, lawyer Daniel Freiheit, known as Lion Advocacy on X, is investigating the fallout, seeking accountability for a campaign that weaponized fear and turned neighbours against neighbours.
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Trudeau’s narrative wasn’t just rhetoric—it was backed by what biostatistician Regina Watteel calls fraudulent science. In her books, ‘Fisman’s Fraud: The Rise of Canadian Hate Science’ and ‘The Accomplices’, Watteel exposes how three leading Canadian institutions used manipulated data to demonize the unvaccinated and push vaccine uptake, driven by political and financial motives. The result? A nation divided, with policies that barred unvaccinated Canadians from planes, trains, funerals, and more, while ArriveCAN turned travel into a dystopian ordeal.
Freiheit’s investigation reveals the human toll. “Trudeau’s words ruined lives,” he says. Families were torn apart, friendships ended, and careers destroyed over personal medical choices. Even those with valid religious or medical exemptions faced harassment and exclusion. Stories flooding Freiheit’s X post tell of missed funerals, broken homes, and spiraling mental health—scars that remain fresh.
The legal question is whether Trudeau’s rhetoric crossed into criminal hate speech. While vaccination status isn’t a protected group under Canadian law, Freiheit argues this is a gray area worth exploring. Trudeau campaigned on this wedge issue, essentially turning vaccine status into a moral litmus test for political gain. The policies that followed—travel bans, job losses, and community isolation—suggest a punitive agenda, not public health.
Freiheit’s mission is clear: truth, accountability, and a precedent to prevent future leaders from fomenting this kind of hate. He’s gathering stories from affected Canadians, taking in information in hopes that no politician can hide behind “pandemic fear” or “cabinet confidence” while segregating citizenry.
Seeking details on the parliamentary decision to impose stringent and exclusionary measures on millions of Canadians, Freiheit encountered resistance cloaked in cabinet confidence. “How much leeway does cabinet confidence give a cabinet member? Can criminal speech be protected under cabinet confidence?” he asks, almost rhetorically. “That’s where I got concerned.”
Regarding vaccination status as a protected ground, Freiheit argues for a statutory amendment. “I think the decision to get vaccinated… well, I wouldn’t recommend hating anybody for that,” he says, “I think there may be various reasons that they don’t want to get vaccinated.”
Ultimately, the decision rests with the individual. Where risk exists, choice must prevail.


COMMENTS
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S M commented 2025-05-28 19:43:58 -0400Deana;
Unfortunately what needs to happen is well outside the parameters of Canadian law, the government I think is relying on and hiding behind the good people and morally acute of society to foster their crimes without street lever repercussions. -
Deana Latta commented 2025-05-28 18:03:26 -0400SM’s comment, ‘The Unions have to be held accountable as well, Unifor in is one that comes to mind.’ That is the union in Windsor that refused my daughters lifelong medical exemption. She’d had a covid vaccine exemption offered to her by her GP, who understood why she has been exempt her entire life. Tullio Diponte, president of Unifor here, lost his own son after the 39 yr old husband, & father of two little ones, DIED after spending a month on life support from taking a single covid shot. That was publicly announced, too. But deny & ruin my child’s life after losing his own?? I’m disgusted.
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Deana Latta followed this page 2025-05-28 17:56:44 -0400
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Fran g commented 2025-05-28 16:54:36 -0400Put Trudumb in jail for crimes against humanity and throw away the key
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S M commented 2025-05-23 19:31:25 -0400The Unions have to be held accountable as well, Unifor in is one that comes to mind.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-05-16 23:28:01 -0400Trudeau lambasted people who didn’t do what he wanted by refusing the jab and got away with it. And we’re surprised that anti-semitism is now rampant in this country and the police do nothing about it?
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Michael Guillery commented 2025-05-16 23:11:19 -0400These are NOT vaccines, as we have generally understood what vaccines are. Research informs us of these shots causing much serious damage. Time for each of us to thoroughly investigate for ourselves (i) they were ‘renamed’ vaccines to get approval (ii) worldwide stats inform us of their failure and harms. Society needs to come together to have accountability and justice to prevail. Else, we will be defenseless against the next attacks both from abroad and from within our borders.
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Michael Guillery commented 2025-05-16 23:11:19 -0400These are NOT vaccines, as we have generally understood what vaccines are. Research informs us of these shots causing much serious damage. Time for each of us to thoroughly investigate for ourselves (i) they were ‘renamed’ vaccines to get approval (ii) worldwide stats inform us of their failure and harms. Society needs to come together to have accountability and justice to prevail. Else, we will be defenseless against the next attacks both from abroad and from within our borders.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-05-16 19:30:53 -0400I hope Trudeau’s poisonous rhetoric bites him personally. This law suit must win. If it doesn’t, we’re in deep trouble from future politicians who can say all sorts of divisive things about groups.
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-05-16 19:10:41 -0400I haven’t taken a jab for more than three years. Sun and heat, you’ve got this beat.