Retired Lt. Gen. Michel Maisonneuve and his wife Barbara took the stage at the Conservative Party conference on Thursday, with the couple mocking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s so-called “woke agenda.”
“Our country has been led by a government focused on virtue signaling,” Maisonneuve told the crowd in Quebec City. “I apologize for who we are and how we came to be.”
His wife echoed Maisonneuve’s sentiments, accusing Trudeau of having an “innate ability to see endless flaws in everyone else, but none in himself.”
Maisonneuve previously made headlines after a speech in Ottawa in 2022 in which he criticized the Trudeau administration’s climate policies and denounced the break-off culture.
In his speech Thursday night, he once again took aim at the “woke movement,” which he said was destroying “Canadian values.”
“The red maple leaf is the flag that can and should unite all Canadians,” Maisonneuve told the cheering crowd. “Why shouldn’t we be patriotic and show it?”
The speech ended with an endorsement of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, with both saying he is the leader Canadians deserve.
Watch the full speech by clicking the video at the top of this article.
With files from Rachel Aiello of CTV News
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