This video of Justin Trudeau repacking an anti-abortion supporter goes viral

It's an exchange that has gone viral in Canada.

While visiting the University of Manitoba on Wednesday April 12, Justin Trudeau engaged in an impromptu debate with a young supporter of the People's Party of Canada (PPC), a populist party founded in 2018 by Maxime Bernier, present on campus. .

After discussing access to dental care for poor families, the discussion quickly turned to the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion).

"Don't you think women should be able to choose what they do with their bodies?"

asks the Prime Minister of Canada to his interlocutor.

Response from the principal concerned, who declares himself a “Christian”: “Personally, no [...], because it is their choice to lie on the right and on the left.”

Enough to make the Head of State react immediately: "Wow... Wow...", he exclaimed, before reaffirming the right of women to choose to have an abortion, especially in the event of rape.

“It looks like you need to think a little more and pray a little more about this,” Justin Trudeau finally launched, in a somewhat sarcastic tone.

The sequence has,

On social networks, many Internet users have taken the side of the Prime Minister.

"All the more reason to see Trudeau as an excellent leader (...) And all the more reason to be concerned about the followers of the PPC and the entrenched misogyny", wrote a certain Mary Dixon on Twitter.

When another adds: “The Prime Minister was respectful and simply spoke to the young man, who clearly benefited from the exchange.

He admits he needs to take a closer look.

Voters need to be clear about what they believe.”

Ardent defender of the right to abortion

This is not the first time that Justin Trudeau has defended the right to abortion.

A year ago, when the US Supreme Court was about to reverse the Roe vs. Wade case (key case law dating from 1973 which legalized abortion in the United States), the liberal leader had promised to defend the right to abortion.

“A woman's free choice is a choice that can only be made by her.

Every woman in Canada has the right to a legal and safe abortion,” he told the press at the time.

Then to add: “We must make sure that there are protections in place so that we never (…) go back on this right.”

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